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With a cooperative project, the Federal Association for Logistics (BVL), GS1 Germany, and T-Systems are launching a project for faster delivery processes. A practical test with Open Telekom Cloud and GS1 standards confirms the benefits and practicality of the standardized solution. Initial implementations are aimed for 2022.
(Bonn/Bremen/Cologne) When companies ship products, they issue a paper delivery note that accompanies the delivery until it reaches the goods receipt. It is passed on and processed manually. This is time-consuming, error-prone, and resource-intensive. The digital delivery note is set to resolve these issues soon. In a joint pilot project by the Federal Association for Logistics (BVL), GS1 Germany, and T-Systems, the solution was tested in practice. 20 companies from the consumer goods industry, trade, and logistics tested the digital delivery note for four weeks in August and September. Successful: 68 percent of the surveyed users would like to continue using the standardized industry solution for the digital processing of delivery notes.
The results show that the duration of individual delivery processes was shortened by up to ten days. “Freight forwarders save the entire effort of documenting delivery notes – from scanning to archiving to the obligation to provide information,” says Oliver Püthe, project manager at GS1 Germany. The detailed results of the pilot project were presented on October 6, 2021, at the digital symposium “Paperless Logistics.”
Contactless Handover Particularly Appreciated
During the project, participants particularly appreciated the contactless handover of the document using QR code scanning, the digital signature, and the elimination of delivery note printing. They also welcomed the fact that the quality of the document is not compromised by multiple manual processes. They believe that timely and complete availability of delivery receipts, including easily readable information on delivery discrepancies, is also an advantage.
“The digital delivery note is an important building block for fully digital business processes in transport logistics,” says Christian Grotemeier, managing director of BVL. In the future, every partner in the supply chain should be able to access their delivery notes digitally, comment on them, and confirm them with a signature.
Photo: © BVL
