Project Summary, Objectives and Expected Impacts

The CORE project aims to increase the security and resilience of the supply chain, while reducing costs and facilitating trade. A Consistently Optimised REsilient ecosystem implementation, integrating interoperability, security, resilience and real-time optimisation can produce cost effective, fast and robust solutions that will guarantee the efficient and secure transit of goods through the worldwide Global Supply Chain system. 

  CORE aims to address three main areas of supply chain security: 

• End-to-end Supply Chain Security fostering standardisation, harmonisation and mutual recognition;
• Controlled global visibility of security risks and other supply chain threats and their impact on supply chain flows around the world;
• Real-time Lean Agile Resilient Green Optimised supply chain solutions offering a highly innovative approach to designing supply chains resilient to major disturbances. 

 The results of CORE will help the EU (and other countries) introduce changes to Customs policy which strike a balance between public and business interests, within reasonable regulatory constraints.

 Implementation of CORE Demonstrators will put the CORE approach into practice in the international supply chain and validate the applicability and benefits of the approach. The CORE Demonstrators include the use of real-time supply chain optimisation tools, next generation scanning systems, data pipelines and smart containers and tracking tools.