In a multi-client scenario project that was initiated from the Cologne based EHI Retail Institute, ScMI AG together with 31 decision-makers from retail and service companies, developed and evaluated scenarios for the future of trade logistics in 2025.

„Whether the trade logistic is able to remain competitive in the future, or whether new player barge between end customer and trade, is highly dependent  on the position trade takes in the process of digitalization.“ This is the core result from  the „EHI scenario study on trade logistics 2025“, which was conducted in cooperation between the EHI Retail Institute in Cologne, several logistics experts from trade and ScMI - their methodical partner company.

Since the beginning of 2008, a unified Euro payment transaction space was implemented with SEPA, the ‘single euro payment area’.