Why do we need digital data standards?
Digital data standards are the foundation of digital collaboration and improve transport and logistics.
They help manufacturers and logistics service providers to create:
- interoperability of transport services,
- reduce costs,
- improve safety and
- foster sustainable innovations.
Standards are somewhat an invisible however very fundamental part of a collaborative Transport and Logistics chain. Therefore, ECTA has issued, since 2020, 7 digital ECTA digital best practice guidelines and organizes next week an ECTA digital webinar to further promote the use of digital standards among the chemical logistics stakeholders including solution providers. Â
Digital data standards give customers the confidence that the physical transport of goods is supported by a digital service (ETA, e-order, e-document) that is fit for purpose, is safe, compliant and more sustainable for the environment.
Along those lines, ECTA together with EFTCO & Cefic–essenscia is also leading by example and supporting the digital EFTCO Cleaning Document or eECD 2.0 as new industry standard.