3 December 2025 | News
In 2025, the Open Logistics Foundation demonstrated the impact of open source in logistics across many areas, including a first industry-ready standard for the digital consignment note (eCMR) and real-world pilots to validate and implement a standard for the exchange of emissions data. The Foundation ends the year with 50 members and 7 network partners from 12 countries, and aims to become even more diverse in 2026.
25 November 2025 | News
The Open Logistics Foundation and Logistics in Wallonia are now official Network Partners. The partnership was formalised with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. The aim of the cooperation is to combine the forces of both organisations to strengthen cross-border and cross-company collaboration in the logistics sector and to promote the development of open, interoperable solutions across Europe.
3 November 2025 | News
How can logistics companies finally speak the same language when it comes to track and trace?
The Open Logistics Foundation’s new Tracking Event Model, developed collaboratively by 24 member companies, sets a shared standard for transport event data.
18 September 2025 | News
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.
6 August 2025 | News
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.
2 June 2025 | News
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.
20 May 2025 | News
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.
7 May 2025 | News
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.
30 January 2025 | News
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.
