HPE 全球副总裁 Kim Masone 表示：“根据Zui初的结果，HPE 观察到了许多固有的好处，包括 的发票准确性和按商定的条款付款、付款时效天数更少以及几乎没有人工干预。”后勤。
HPE 和 DHL 都无需为货件批准而进行交付后检查，从而节省了大量时间。除了促进装运报价批准之外，MVP的使用还可以让客户深入了解预期付款，改善应收账款，并为所有各方提供单一的透明度来源。发票在 POD后立即触发，可以按照合同付款条款支付。
Masone 表示：“我们看到使用此工具的巨大好处，并期待将其使用扩展到全球其他非合同业务。”
DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist ofDeutsche Post DHL Group, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) haveworked to deploy a blockchain solution supporting logistics paymentprocessing. Based upon smart contracts and blockchain technology,this solution offers a more robust alternative to back-endprocesses which are often error-prone and tedious. DHL believesblockchain has significant potential in this area and (by deployinga solution in conjunction with a major customer) intends to take aleading position in the application of this technology. The growingnumber of digital solutions and services deployed by DHL GlobalForwarding is fully in line with Deutsche Post DHL Group’s recentlypresented new corporate “Strategy 2025 - Delivering excellence in adigital world".
“Blockchain and other innovative technologies can be seen as keydifferentiators in removing significant layers of complexity fromglobal supply chains,” said Eugenius Otte, Head of ProductManagement, DHL Global Forwarding, Netherlands. “We are extremelyexcited to work with HPE, a long-standing customer, on this jointventure with the goal of delivering significant serviceenhancements, productivity improvements and savings in the supplychain.”
Live since July 1, this Minimum Viable Product (MVP) solutionlinks multiple entities of HPE and DHL Global Forwarding forone-off order management. One-offs are defined as requests forshipments that can be supported by the DHL network, but that arenot part of the standard contract. The MVP aims to address some ofthe pain points in the approval process by making use of theinherent functionality of a distributed ledger. It simplifies theapproval process and clearly identifies the shipment quotes thatare approved (by whom, and when) – all in immutable records.