Autor: Jokim Janßen

In order to cope with growing customer requirements and the associated increase in complexity, companies are opening up their value chains, reducing their vertical integration and increasingly entering into collaborations. Cross-company data exchange along the supply chain is thus becoming a key component for competitiveness and the realization of customer-specific solutions. For this reason, the European Union has launched the GAIA-X project, which aims to create the next generation of data infrastructure for Europe and its companies. The GAIA-X maturity model offers an approach for classifying companies into different development stages and provides concrete requirements for further development along a predefined development path towards becoming a fully-fledged participant in the federated GAIA-X data infrastructure.

The Physical Internet is based on physical, digital, and operational interconnectivity, without which a globally fragmented and standardized freight transport system could not operate efficiently. Valid input data are necessary for the self-control of global flows of goods. In addition, a high level of trust in control decisions is essential for a far-reaching acceptance of all actors and customers in the logistics industry. These two goals can only be achieved by high data-quality. In addition to increasing data-quality through automation or the use of advanced sensor technology, methods of data-fusion and decision-fusion offer great potential. This article describes a methodical approach to analyze these potentials. Furthermore, this procedure is exemplarily carried out using a transit center.