The Engage initiative is governed by the executives of the initial group of member posts and airlines. It is open to all posts and airlines willing to actively contribute and commit to deploy the commonly agreed measures. Posts and airlines agreed to benchmark best practice and define enhanced business processes aimed at aligning air cargo and airmail operations to achieve cost reductions.
Posts and airlines alike need real-time information to manage operations and meet quality targets, comply with security declaration requirements, improve efficiency, reduce costs, and determine payments to each other. The exchange of EDI is a condition to help them to meet customer requirements. EDI interconnects posts and airlines, enabling the creation of an integrated paper-free, end-to-end network.
Participants of Engage also work on meeting commonly agreed targets for KPIs defined for airmail measurability, service performance and paper-free deployment.
Engage is also the driver behind IPC-developed solutions that support the airmail industry, which include but are not limited to:
- The Mail Registration Device (MRD),
- The Engage dashboard,
- EDI compliance report,
- Document portal,
- Paper-free route creation tool,
- COMETS/CARISMA solution,
- PARIS,
- Airmail Consignment Monitoring, and other Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting tools
How does it work?
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Efficiency Improve processes through the expansion of EDI and paper-free transport. |
Cooperation Benchmarking and adaptation of best practices |
Community Industry platform to anticipate and adapt to future market trends |
More information
For more information about the Engage initiative contact [email protected].
FoMbA Standard Operating Messaging Procedures (SOMP)
Participants in this initiative can access the Standard Operating Messaging Procedures (SOMP), which details the processes needed in order to achieve automated, simplified, aligned and paper-free business processes for mail carriage between posts, airlines and stakeholders.
Participants can access the document Standard Operating Messaging Procedures section via this link after logging in.