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The purpose of this document is to describe additional functionality on transport for the Upstream Integration Model (UIM). Transport is the process of conveying freight from the point of despatch to the point of receipt.

This additional functionality is an alternative building block for despatch, receipt and consumption building block if manufacturer or material supplier makes use of a transport service provider to manage the transport. In addition to the current UIM model based on 2 parties being manufacturer and material supplier, a new party is introduced, the transport service provider.

In a next stage this alternative building block will be enhanced with more logistic services like warehousing.

The UIM describes common business processes and data interchanges to support upstream interoperability between manufacturers and suppliers. By engaging in such an integration effort, business partners wish to ...