e-Delivery refers a number of business processes related to the delivery of goods or services in a supply chain. To understand the concept of a business process, see Supply-chain business processes. A number of data standards are used to encode business documents being exchanged during these business processes (see Supply-chain data standards).

These business processes are very complex as there are many possible cases and intermediaries involved. UBL defines these cases in a lot of detail. The UBL document types that support delivery processes are Despatch Advice, Receipt Advice, Order Cancellation, Order Change, and Fulfilment Cancellation.

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Definitions and principles

The UBL 2.4 standard has a section dedicated to ordering (section 2.3.5 Deliver).

e-Delivery Document Standards

The older EDIFACT standard defines the DESADV message as a standard, all information is available e.g. UN/EDIFACT D.13A – Message [DESADV]

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