Royal FloraHolland (RFH), Plantion and Veiling Rhein-Maas (VRM) have jointly decided to phase out the Electronic Delivery Note (EAB) in 2025 and to process all deliveries for clock and direct trade through Floriday. This will make the trading opportunities for growers and buyers greater and more flexible and develop a future-proof floriculture sector.
RFH, Plantion and VRM intend to make deliveries for clock and direct trade via Floriday and associated software packages. 50% of direct and clock deliveries from VRM and Plantion, and auction deliveries from RFH, are already processed through Floriday. Royal FloraHolland has stopped using Connect-EAB and almost all direct deliveries are handled through Floriday. The next step is to have all clock deliveries taking place through Floriday.
New trading opportunities for growers and buyers
If all deliveries go through Floriday instead of the EAB, new trading opportunities become possible for growers and buyers. This includes accessing the digital clock through Floriday, the ability to submit transport orders, insight into Track & Trace information and packaging notifications within Europe. Added to which, the marketplaces want to eliminate duplicate infrastructure costs.
Splitting the commercial and logistics process
The current clock EAB activates two processes simultaneously: a commercial process for supply for the clock and the logistical registration of delivery vehicles to the hubs. Because both steps are included in one delivery message, the information can only be sent after the delivery has been prepared by the grower. This means that the sector is tied to an inflexible process, and, for example, auction pre-sales cannot start until the delivery has been processed by the grower.
Putting supply on the market early
Through Floriday, these processes are set up separately from each other which offers more flexibility and opportunities for other forms of trading. RFH is developing a new way of day trading (Floriday Daytrade), where growers can put their supply on the market early in the day and RFH's logistics can handle the smaller orders.
What does this mean in practice?
- Growers who already send their clock and direct delivery through Floriday create the delivery correctly.
- Growers using a software package will continue to create clock and direct delivery via their software package, but this will soon be done via the Floriday API link (instead of through the EAB). Depending on the software package used by growers, a new update will be made available. Some software vendors have yet to develop this; please check this status overview. Growers will be informed by the software supplier about the necessary steps and planned updates.
More information
For more information on this development and the status by software supplier, visit the Floriday/Royal FloraHolland, Plantion and VRM websites.