"Russian Post" switches to electronic travel lists

2023: Electronic Waybill Testing

Russian Post began to use electronic waybills in test mode. This will increase the transparency and speed of cargo transportation and significantly reduce the volume of paper document circulation. This was announced by the Russian Post on January 31, 2024.

Post is implementing a pilot project in cooperation with the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, FSUE ProtectionInfoTrans and Astral Group of Companies. As of January 2024, one road transport company (ATP) of the Post Office in Moscow uses electronic waybills. The company plans to launch the project on the 90 largest ATPs in 2024. During testing, the company will check the algorithms for working with the involved medical staff, new machine-readable powers of attorney (MCD) and other innovative technologies.

The Post has one of the largest fleets to the country in - more than 15,000 cars. The average monthly mileage, which passes the transport of the Russian Post along postal routes, is 39,380,580 km per month. In 2023, Post Office employees issued 2,925,287 waybills. The introduction of EPL is a necessary step in the field that automobile logistics will significantly reduce the cost of sending, business processes printing and storing documents. The waybill serves not only to control the movement of cars, but also is the basis for charging wages drivers, writing off fuel and lubricants.

Digital technologies help to debug internal processes, reduce costs and time to complete tasks. The electronic waybill also makes it possible to fully control the movement of transport, because the speed and quality of delivery of goods is extremely important for us, "said Igor Tushakovsky, Deputy General Director of the Russian Post.

More and more large companies are switching to electronic transportation documents. This really allows you to optimize business processes, make them faster and more convenient within the company, and when interacting with regulatory authorities. I am sure that other companies of the transport and logistics complex will follow the example of the Russian Post, which means that the process of transferring document management on freight and passenger transport to electronic form will accelerate. The success of the Russian Post in this direction will contribute to the spread in Russia of a culture of working with electronic documents, - said Polina Davydova, director of the Digital Transport and Logistics Association.

The launch of the state information system of electronic transportation documents (GIS EPD) opened a new milestone in the digitalization of transport. industries This serious and time-dictated step will not only reduce the costs of companies, but also on a scale countries will allow the transportation market to reach a new level, become better, more reliable and transparent. We are faced with a serious task in helping organizations implement electronic transportation documents. We are glad to cooperate with the Russian Post in such a significant project as scaling up the use of electronic waybills for all their motor transport enterprises, - said Anastasia Karandasheva, director of the digital logistics department of FSUE ProtectionInfoTrans.

A distinctive feature of our solution is the possibility of using EPD in typical configurations of 1C software products. This allows a wide range of users to purchase a license and quickly start using the required functionality, "said Anton Shevchenko, director of electronic transportation documents at Astral Group.