Creating the Internet of Logistics
Terminal/Agent
benefits
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• Better utilization (-/-30%)
TAT time reduction
Simplified compliance checks
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• Shipper, forwarder and carrier benefits above
Resource and capacity planning
Reduced dependency of individuals
Easy access to documents
Single system to interface
Reduced complexity & improved data quality
Increased planning capabilities
Reduced paper & system clutters
Increased speed in processes
Table 1: Opportunities from Digitization in Logistics
Looking at the internet as the mechanism to
digitize the logistics industry is therefore
elementary, and this is the direction that
Ericsson together with the International Air
Transport Association (IATA) have taken to
specify and create the first Internet of
Logistics standards and instances.
D AWN OF I NTERNET OF L OGISTICS
The internet has been the most successful
collaboration platform in human history. It
has evolved and organically grown since its
inception, from simple email communication
and HTML websites to global platforms that
connect billions, enabling them to
communicate, collaborate and share
information with each other. Technologies
have advanced to provide dynamic content,
security has improved and in more recent
years the efforts to make the information on
the internet machine-readable and
learnable have increased. Much of this
technology has been standardized and made
open and free, enabling adoption at higher
levels than any of the previous closed
standards that have dominated business to
business communication have experienced.
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The Unique Identifier
Today, each company makes their own
identifiers and labels in accordance. One
fundamental in sharing and roaming
information is solving how to find a universal
identifier reachable for any connected
device on a global basis and where entities
can keep legacy systems in place.
The internet provides a good solution for a
universal identifier in URIs, or more
specifically, URLs 4 —an identifier that is not
only globally unique but also resolvable so
URL - https://www.w3.org/TR/url/
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