National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 17017‑1:2025.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee IST/47/-/1, e-Procurement.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its committee manager.

Contractual and legal considerations

This publication has been prepared in good faith, however no representation, warranty, assurance or undertaking (express or implied) is or will be made, and no responsibility or liability is or will be accepted by BSI in relation to the adequacy, accuracy, completeness or reasonableness of this publication. All and any such responsibility and liability is expressly disclaimed to the full extent permitted by the law.

This publication is provided as is, and is to be used at the recipient’s own risk.

The recipient is advised to consider seeking professional guidance with respect to its use of this publication.

This publication is not intended to constitute a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application.

Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.

This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 August 2025.

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 2 June 2025.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and United Kingdom.

European foreword

This document (EN 17017‑1:2025) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 440 “Electronic Public Procurement”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by February 2026, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by February 2026.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document falls under a CEN-CENELEC pilot on derivative use (as approved by the CEN/CA (Administrative Board) through decision 37/2019). For more information about the implementation of derivative use in CEN/TC 440, see: https://www.cencenelec.eu/areas-of-work/cen-cenelectopics/public-procurement/cen-tc-440-electronic-public-procurement/.

This document is part of a series of multi-part documents prepared, or under preparation, by CEN/TC 440:

17011-series: eProcurement Architecture, providing a set of specifications outlining different aspects of the eProcurement architecture for Business Interoperability Specifications.
17015-series: eCatalogue Business Interoperability Specifications, providing a set of specifications outlining business choreography, transaction, syntax binding specifications and guidelines required to support the catalogue process.
17016-series: eOrdering Business Interoperability Specifications, providing a set of specifications outlining business choreography, transaction, syntax binding specifications and guidelines required to support the ordering process.
17017-series: eFulfilment Business Interoperability Specifications, providing a set of specifications outlining business choreography, transaction, syntax binding specifications and guidelines required to support the fulfilmet process.

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

Introduction

Derivative use pilot

This publication falls under a CEN-CENELEC pilot on derivative use (as approved by the CEN/CA (Administrative Board) through decision 38/2019).

CEN has the copyright to all CEN publications, including their entire content and associated metadata, as described in CEN‑CENELEC Guide 10 “Policy on dissemination, sales and copyright of CEN-CENELEC Publications”. However, through the derivative use pilot, CEN gives permission to the copying, replication and translation of content from a CEN/TC 440 deliverables in specific circumstances.

Under the derivative use pilot, specific sections of CEN/TC 440 publications may be copied, replicated and translated in cases, where this is a necessary condition for the meaningful implementation of the publication. The sections which fall under derivative use will typically be elements, such as semantic definitions and rules related to the use of information elements, and the name, definition and description of processes and transactions, which are needed in software solutions, whether intended for sale in the private market or for use in the public sector, and documents guiding the implementation and use in specific countries and/or business sectors.

Under derivative use, any use of content, which has been copied, replicated, or translated from a CEN/TC 440 publication, should comply with the intended use of the publication. Derivative use cannot be applied in use cases other than those the publication is intended to support. The intended use of this publication is set out below.

Intended use of this publication:

This document has been developed for any organization looking for guidance on the implementation and use of electronic procurement deliverables as well as for organizations developing or implementing software applications related to electronic procurement, such as software providers, business entities and national authorities. These software applications should be in conformance with this publication.

Parts of the document to which derivative use apply:

Each subclause, which falls under derivative use, will be clearly marked with a note. The degree to which the specific content can be modified, is defined in CEN/TS 17011‑3Electronic Public Procurement – Architecture – Part 3: Customization Guideline.

Annex A provides an overview of the line number references to all subclauses of the publication which fall under derivative use.

1 Scope

This choreographies document describes the exchange of information in the Fulfilment phase between seller and buyer where the seller wants to announce delivery of the ordered goods or services. The purpose of the fulfilment it is to monitor the executions of the contract. This process is the process between the ordering process and the billing process. The billing process can start when fulfilment has been initiated. The business value for this is:

To prepare the buyers organization for the physical delivery;
To enabling an automatic check of delivery for the buying organization before paying the received invoice;
To match the ordered products with the physical deliveries, such as serial numbers, lot identifiers and other information that might not be present at the time the goods were ordered;
The assist in getting an accurate calculation of the environmental footprint of the goods by including the emission during the transport;
To feed data into the logistic process, so no retyping is needed during the transport of the goods.

The identifier of this set of choreographies is EN 17017‑1:2025

How to claim conformance to a choreography variant defined in this document is described in 4.2.3.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Business Environment and high-level business requirements

4.1 Choreography (business) Goals

4.2 Business environment

4.3 Organization and business partners involved

4.4 High Level Business process requirements

5 Processes

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Business process variants2

5.3 Business process variant A — Despatch only3

5.4 Business process variant B — Advanced fulfilment4

5.5 Business process variant C — Receipt advice only5

6 CEN TC 440 Transactions involved

6.1 Summary6

6.2 Basic collaborations7

6.3 Send Despatch advice8

6.4 Send Receipt Advice9

Bibliography

BS EN 17017-1:2025

Electronic Public Procurement. Fulfilment - Choreographies

Current

Published:

31 Aug 2025