The Open Logistics Foundation has appointed Carina Tüllmann as the new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). From 1 September 2025, she will, in addition to communications and community management, also be responsible for human resources development and business development within the Foundation.
Time slot chaos costs the logistics industry time, money, and more. A new project from the Open Logistics Foundation is addressing this with a vendor-independent, open source Time Slot Data Model. Co-led by Transporeon and the Foundation, 24 companies are collaborating to develop interoperable communication protocols and and smart negotiation logics. By reducing delays, cutting manual effort, and improving planning accuracy, the initiative promises more seamless coordination at transshipment points.
There have been various international attempts to digitalise the CMR consignment note. However, the resulting solutions are rarely compatible. The Open Logistics Foundation now presents an industry-ready software that creates a common standard for the digital consignment note (eCMR). The new software is legally compliant, interoperable, and suitable for companies of all sizes and industries – freely available on an open source basis. Open Logistics Foundation members Rhenus, Dachser, Blue Yonder, and Markant presented the solution today during a press conference at transport logistic 2025 in Munich, Germany.
What shared challenges should the air cargo industry address collaboratively? Where can efficiency and interoperability be enhanced through open source solutions? These were key questions explored at the Air Cargo Roundtable, organized by Open Logistics Foundation and International Air Transport Association (IATA) in May.
Networking included: The annual Open Source Innovation Days, organised by the Open Logistics Foundation, are now a firm fixture in the diaries of member companies. Numerous representatives from companies and organisations took the opportunity in Berlin to network with each other.
The Open Logistics Foundation works on multiple open source projects that aim to develop commodity-level solutions for the logistics industry. The developed solutions focus on the most pressing problems of the logistics and supply chain management (SCM) community by establishing uniform de-facto standards, tools and services. All open source projects are hosted in the Open Logistics Repository and are freely accessible to the public. In their evolution from sandbox to graduated, our projects undergo different steps, requirements and checks, as Nathalie Böhning, Innovation and Project Manager at Open Logistics Foundation, points out.
AI, sustainability, and open source solutions – the future of the logistics industry is promising to be filled with innovations, from making existing processes and procedures more efficient to creating entirely new inventions. A deeper understanding of these topics is key to excel in the upcoming years. Therefore, the Digital Hub Logistics Dortmund set up a new training format for young professionals, future leaders, career changers, talents, and logistics and supply chain management experts. The aim – to equip future leaders with the knowledge and insights needed to navigate the logistics landscape of tomorrow. Empowering them to leverage these tools for the benefit of their organisations.
Our Innovation Community met on November 14th, 2024, at the BioMedizinZentrum (BMZ) in Dortmund, where over 50 representatives from our member companies came together to share ideas, address their common challenges, and shape the future of logistics. During the Ideation Workshop, seven crucial topics were identified, each aimed at advancing open source solutions for logistics. As always, our members drive these initiatives, focusing on collaboration and innovation to achieve impactful, industry-wide standards under the Open Logistics Foundation.
Today, open source software and open standards are central to green and sustainable logistics. With this in mind, the Open Logistics Foundation and Smart Freight Centre have decided to join forces: As part of a network partnership, which has now been sealed with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, the two organisations also want to advance zero-emissions logistics in the future jointly. To this end, the sustainability expertise of Smart Freight Centre and the digitalisation expertise of the Open Logistics Foundation are to join forces. The new partnership sends a strong signal to the industry and the market in favour of open source software and open standards. This once again underlines the need for companies to work together.