Every day, millions of delivery notes accompany goods shipments across Europe. However, there is no standardised digital data model for this. The Open Logistics Foundation is launching the eDeliveryNote project and will in the future provide free, openly available open source components that connect existing systems rather than replacing them.
The delivery note plays a central role in domestic freight transport. It documents the handover of goods, serves as proof of delivery and a receipt, and accompanies shipments throughout the entire supply chain. Because it primarily fulfils an operational requirement, its digitalisation has historically developed in a largely uncoordinated manner. The result is a fragmented system landscape in which industry-specific custom solutions and proprietary data formats continue to hinder seamless data exchange to this day – and prevent end-to-end digitalisation at the data level.
The Open Logistics Foundation is addressing precisely this problem and is launching the eDeliveryNote project within its Working Group Electronic Transport Documents. Markant is leading the project. Markant is a pan-European service provider that supports companies in the retail, industrial and logistics sectors with integrated digital solutions across the entire value chain from financial and payment services, through data and integration platforms, to supply chain and market data services. (....)