PROW Standard for Sawn & Planed Timber Industry

Using a "common language" is beneficial for the whole sector and improving productivity significantly.
Schema is sustainable and efficient with reducing IT waste and unnecessary labour resources.
The Standard Shema is publicly owned and maintained by volunteers from the timber industry.

Metric System CMR international waybill Like USB-C standard for mobile phones or English language for international business communication...

...PROW Standard is a free "language" for Sawn & Planed Timber Industry IT systems.

Regardless of your IT-system, the PROW Standard only describes the Schema *(see below) that is tech-independent. Data can be transferred in that "common language" of the timber sector.

Full schema in EA format HERE
- Trial and Free Viewer HERE
Extract for Waybill HERE
Extract for Order & Confirmation HERE
Extract for Stock Availability HERE
Extract for Wood Definition HERE

Name origin: PROW = Professional Wood Trade (or Pine-Rowan Orb-Weaver)

Digital Data Transfer (DDT) or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or Application Programming Interface (API) is basically:
Document (e.g. invoice) transfer from company X system to Y without human interaction.

It consists of 3 things:

Channel - e-mail, ftp, web server (https), sql, X400 (for old-school edi), theoretically skype/messenger/whatsapp
Format - excel, csv, xml, json, edifact or whatever you agree with a trading partner
Schema - structure of data in that format. It specifies (truly simplified): the order and names of columns in a "spreadsheet",
their data types (e.g. text, number, date).
and most importantly - the deep meaning behind these columns.

Important: PROW is just about "3" - the Schema.
We don't and will not deal with "1" nor "2" i.e. your own IT or third pary will need to provide a technical solution.

* Do you call yourself a (somewhat) business-person and have (somewhat) uncertainty what "schema" means?
Want to know a bit better? Click HERE to find out!