Und hier die Themen im Detail:

Platform System Feature

Data Feed API Improvements

• Automatic OpenAPI Documentation for Feeds: The Data Feed API now automatically generates OpenAPI specifications at runtime for all available FeedPayload implementations, making it easy to share interface documentation with external systems.
• Qualification Feed: A new standardized outbound feed provides qualification lifecycle data (status, validity, candidate assignment) to third-party systems via the Data Feed mechanism.

 Platform Business Feature

Document Templates Improvements

• Redesigned Mail Merge Engine: The DOCX document generation engine has been completely rewritten with improved MERGEFIELD processing, better handling of object collections, and a more robust template rendering pipeline.

KPI Improvements

• KPI Model: A new KPI framework allows defining materialized data views and connecting them to charts.

Partner Management

Carrier Bug Fixes

• Unlock Carrier Task Not Displayed: Resolved an issue where the “Unlock Carrier” task was not shown on the carrier detail page after initiating a credit check, preventing the onboarding workflow from progressing.
• Carrier Blocking with External Identity Provider: Resolved a process crash that occurred when blocking a carrier whose employees had never logged in. The system now gracefully handles users that do not yet exist in the local identity provider.
• Carrier Blocking Filter Error: Fixed a 500 error that occurred when activating the “Blocking” filter in the carrier list.
• Task Checkboxes Missing (Region Selection): Fixed missing selection checkboxes in carrier tasks, which prevented users from selecting regions during the onboarding workflow.
• Task Checkboxes Missing (Credit Check): Restored the missing checkboxes needed to link a business partner during the credit check process.

  Bank Accounts Improvements

• Bank Account Verification Workflow: The platform provides all necessary building blocks to enable bank account verification. A default implementation has been provided in the template, allowing organizations to require document-based verification of bank accounts. Carriers can upload proof documents, and backoffice users review them through the standard NX3 verification process.
• Redesigned Bank Account Component: The bank account UI has been completely rebuilt with a configurable table view and form layout. Bank names are now fully visible, and the component supports both IBAN and account-number modes with customizable required fields.
• Server-Side Bank Account Validation: Introduced fine-grained, per-field validation groups for bank accounts (e.g. WithIban, WithBankName). Customer projects can now configure exactly which fields are mandatory via a ValidationGroupsProvider.

Bug Fixes

• Bank Name Field Too Short for Import: Increased character limits for bank account fields (bank name, depositor, IBAN, account number) to comply with ISO 20022 standards, resolving import failures for customers with longer bank names.
• New Bank Account Not Creatable: Fixed an issue where the “Create” button remained visible even when the maximum number of bank accounts for a type was reached, causing confusion. The button is now disabled with a tooltip when no more accounts can be added.

Operator

Tender Improvements

• Tender Dashboard: A new centralized dashboard provides an at-a-glance overview of all tenders, their status, bid progress, and key metrics – enabling faster decision-making without navigating into individual tenders.
• Tender Packages: Tender objects (e.g. lanes) can now be grouped into packages, allowing organizers to bundle items logically (e.g. by geography) and giving participants a clearer structure when reviewing and quoting on large tenders.
• Withdraw Complete Bids: Tender managers can now withdraw all bids of a business partner for an entire tender at once, eliminating the need to revoke bids individually on each tender object.
• NDA / Participation Agreement: Tender managers can now attach a document (e.g. NDA, Code of Conduct) that participants must accept before viewing tender details or submitting bids. Acceptance is tracked per participant organization.
• Remove All Candidates at Once before Publication: A new bulk action allows tender managers to remove all candidates from a tender with a single click, saving significant time when managing large candidate lists.
• Add Candidates After Publication: Candidates can now be added to a tender even after it has been published, enabling late additions without having to recreate the tender.
• Tender Optimizations: Various usability improvements to the tender workflow including better field labels, guide price visibility, and improved help texts for bidding fields.

Technical Improvements

Message Queue Improvements

• Message Queue Identifiers: Messages in the queue now carry ExternalIdentifier and InternalIdentifier fields, making it significantly easier to trace and debug feed messages by searching with the same business identifier used by external systems.
• Message Queue Payload Visibility: The message queue UI now displays the full payload of each message, eliminating the need to query the database manually during error analysis.
• Message Queue Error Cleanup: Error-state messages from the Carrier Service are now automatically cleaned up from the queue, preventing stale entries from accumulating indefinitely.

  Lists & Filters Improvements

• Master-Detail View: Lists now support an expandable detail panel alongside the list, allowing users to preview record details without navigating away. Configurable to show detail view, editor, or a custom component.
• Card View for Lists: Users can now switch between the traditional table view and a card-based grid view, providing a more visual way to browse records like tours, consignments, or regions.
• Last-Viewed Marker: The last viewed record is now visually marked in the list with a bookmark indicator, making it easy to find your place when returning from a detail view.
• Collapsible Filters: The filter area can now be collapsed and expanded, with active filters shown as a compact summary. Quick filters and standard filters can be independently shown or hidden via list settings.
• Simple Boolean Filter: Boolean filters can now be configured with simpleBooleanFilter: true in the JSON metadata, enabling direct toggle interaction via a switch button without opening the filter popup. This reduces the number of clicks from 3 to 1 and provides immediate visual feedback of the filter state. Supports normal fields, specification fields, and support-specification fields.
• List performance increased: Added a new tool to increase list performance via configuration. Significant amount of default lists has been already configured accordingly.
• Streamlined List Actions: Selection, duplication, and deletion actions are now hidden by default and must be explicitly enabled per list, resulting in a cleaner interface that doesn’t overwhelm users with rarely-needed functions.
• Configurable List Columns: It must be define which fields are available for selection in list settings, ensuring users only see relevant column options.
• Redesigned List Settings Component: The list settings component has been completely redesigned and now only displays configured columns and filters, making it significantly more user-friendly. Users can now easily manage their list view preferences without being overwhelmed by irrelevant options.
• List Caching: Separate caching for standard lists, reference lists, and modal lists prevents filter and column settings from leaking between different list contexts.
• Quick Filter Improvements: Various fixes and improvements to quick filter behavior including proper grouping and display of active vs. available filters.
• JPQL Query Header Display: Fixed incorrect column header rendering when JPQL queries contain CASE expressions.

Bug Fixes

• Quick Filter Reset Inconsistency: Fixed a bug where resetting a quick filter updated the UI but left the list data still filtered.

Other Improvements

• Angular 20 Upgrade: The frontend has been upgraded to Angular 20, including FontAwesome 7 and Highcharts 12, bringing improved performance, modern APIs, and long-term support.
• Platform Version Display: The current platform version is now shown in the application’s About dialog, making it easy for users and support staff to identify the running version.

Bug Fixes

• SSO Login with Special Characters: Fixed a login failure (atob) for users whose names contain special characters (e.g. “ß”) when using Single Sign-On.
• Image Upload with Special Characters: Resolved a 401 error that occurred when uploading images with special characters in the filename.

Security

• Dependency updates: Update of various dependencies to new version.
• Parallel Platform Version Support: A new Git branching strategy supports two platform versions in parallel operation, enabling independent patch releases and security observation for customers on different major versions.
• Updated Keycloak to Version 26.6.1

Wir freuen uns über euer Feedback! Und – Plattform 8.0 ist in Umsetzung und kommt im November 2026!

Euer NX3 Team

Hier einiges Highlights der Magic Two!

• Dokumentenanalyse
  • Für die meisten transportspezifischen Dokumente existieren nun umfangreiche Prüfungen, auch mehrsprachig.
• Carrier Bestand
  • Wir nähern uns den 90.000! Ja, richtig – 90.000 Carrier in der Datenbank!

• Stammdatenprüfungen & Integration Drittquellen
  • Wir prüfen regelmäßig und fortlaufend Stammdaten gegen Drittquellen.

• Komplexe Checklisten und Prüfprozesse
  • Abbildung von definierten Prüfprozessen (z.B. Abläufe), auch bei komplexen Aufgaben.

• Geführte & vergleichende Abfragen
  • Der Chatbot führt durch Szenarien und ermöglicht auch zusammenhängende Abfragen (z.B. ob die Gültigkeit auf den Dokumenten den Regeln der nationalen Behörden entsprechen).

• Wissens- und Syntaxabfragen
  • Abfragen werden durch umfangreiches Wissen gestützt, z.B. die Syntax von Lizenznummern.

und vieles, vieles mehr.
Dazu – der Service ist schneller und genauer als unsere Version 1 – also in allen belangen ein Sprung nach vorne!

Wesentliche Vorteile auf einen Blick:

• Standardisierung: Komplexe Prüfprozesse und Checklisten werden automatisiert und nach einheitlichen Kriterien abgearbeitet.
• Rechtssicherheit: Syntaxabfragen (z. B. für EU-Lizenzen) gewährleisten, dass Dokumente den formalen Anforderungen der nationalen Behörden entsprechen.
• Ressourcenschonung: Die Entlastung des Personals von manuellen Routineprüfungen ermöglicht die Fokussierung auf strategische Kernaufgaben.

Automatisierung durch Conversational AI

Durch den Einsatz von Conversational AI ermöglicht das System eine intuitive Interaktion zwischen Mensch und Maschine. Die Technologie simuliert menschliche Konversationen über Text oder Sprache und fungiert als intelligente Schnittstelle zu komplexen Datenbanken. Anwender können Analysen direkt per Dialog steuern, was die Einarbeitungszeit minimiert und die operative Geschwindigkeit erhöht.

Risikominimierung durch den NX3 Trust Score

Zusätzlich zur technischen Prüfung fließen Erfahrungswerte in die Bewertung ein. Über den NX3 Trust Score und den Trust Count erhalten Anwender Aufschluss darüber, wie häufig und mit welchem Ergebnis ein Carrier bereits innerhalb des Netzwerks geprüft wurde. Das Feature kommt in Q2 2026 und wird automatisch in den Service integriert.

Hinweis zur Namensgebung: Mit diesem Release führen wir eine einheitliche Nomenklatur ein. Wir sprechen ab sofort nicht mehr von “NX3 Core”, sondern einheitlich von der NX3 Plattform.

Der Fokus lag dabei klar auf der Verbesserung der Transport-Execution-Prozesse sowie der Echtzeit-Transparenz und der weiteren Modernisierung unserer technologischen Basis.

Neue & geänderte Features

• Word search & Typeahead support for NX3 entities
  • Geoservice Enhancements – NX3 knows where something is
  • PTV Maps integration
  • HERE Maps integration
  • Address-based cache for geodata
  • Radius search
• Regions overhaul
  • Regions as first-class citizens in NX3’s spatial features
• RTV integration for different RTV providers
  • Track & Trace
  • Transport events for Loads and Tours
• Geo Dashboard
  • Spatial visualization of operational data
• Freight Matching
  • Finding suitable loads & loading spaces
• Trip Planning for Less-than-Truckload Tours
• Update Freight Exchange integration
  • Update integration with external freight exchange platforms
  • Create tours from Freight quotes
  • Seamless Timocom integration
• Tour Assignment
  • Spot Carriers
  • Contracted Carriers
• NX3 RTV – Execution without hurdles
  • Real-time transport visibility
  • ETA calculations
  • Proof of Delivery (POD) management
• Transport Collaboration
  • Request dispatching of loads from other departments
  • Contracted carriers access via portal to produce tours and manage their resources
  • Spot carriers can access via secret tokens to produce tours
• Tender 2.0
  • Tender Creation
  • Tender Object
  • Carrier Selection
  • Tender Release
  • Notification
  • Tender Monitoring
  • Bidding
  • Tender Closure
• Quick filters in list views
  • Individual filter settings can now be saved permanently and reused as needed to simplify daily work.
• Extension of the VAT ID feature for countries outside the EU
  • Manual validation of VAT identification numbers has been expanded and now also supports countries outside the EU.
• Rejection email in the onboarding process
  • When a transport partner is rejected, an email is automatically sent to transparently inform applicants about the status of their onboarding.
• New filter for business relationships in list views
  • An additional filter enables targeted segmentation of entries based on existing business relationships.
• “My Carriers” filter in the transport partner list
  • A dedicated filter improves the overview and management of carriers assigned to the user.

Technische Verbesserungen

Neben den neuen Geschäftsfunktionen haben wir auch unter der Haube umfassende Updates durchgeführt, um die Stabilität, Sicherheit und Leistung der Plattform zu gewährleisten:

• Update of backend and frontend dependencies
  • Relevant libraries and frameworks have been updated to the latest versions to ensure security and compatibility.
• Support for Java 21
  • The platform is now fully compatible with Java 21 and benefits from its improvements.
• Improved error handling in the UI
  • The user interface responds more robustly to unexpected situations and displays clearer error messages.
• New Carrier Service Client 4.0.0
  • The integration has been updated to version 4.0.0.
• Various bug fixes and stability improvements
  • Several issues have been resolved to further enhance reliability.

Wir freuen uns über euer Feedback!

Und – Plattform 7.0 ist bereits in Umsetzung!

Euer NX3 Team

Plattform 6.0 Release (separate Release Notes folgen noch) ist auf der Zielgeraden aber es geht natürlich direkt weiter.

Hier sind die aktuellen Planungen für unsere Roadmap 2025/2026!

Und so wird die Roadmap gelesen : keine Pläne sind in Stein gemeißelt und sich dadurch die Roadmap ständig entwickelt.

Dazu gilt, dass wir 2 x mal im Jahr ein Plattform Release publizieren, einmal Oktober/November und einmal April/Mai. Detaillierte Planungen zu den Updates erfolgen dann wie gewohnt separat.

Kurzfristige Planungen (Short Term)

Zuerst kommen unsere konkreten Themen für das kommende Release, allerdings sind noch kleine Korrekturen und Anpassungen möglich.

Die ersten Details dazu sind bereits publiziert (siehe auch Plattform Release 6.0)

Mittelfristigen Planungen (Mid-Term plans 04/05-2026 & 10/11-2026)

Danach folgen die mittelfristigen Pläne. Die dort aufgeführten Elemente sind unsere vorrangigen Ziele für unsere zukünftigen zwei Plattform Releases, die jeweils alle etwa alle 6 Monate erscheinen.
Diese Elemente sind weniger detailliert, sollen Ihnen aber einen allgemeinen Überblick über die Funktionen geben, an denen wir arbeiten.

NX3 Plattform

• Performance Improvements
• UI / UX Improvements
• Security Improvements
• Real Time Visibility
• Improved Qualifications
• Onboarding Improvements
• Reporting & KPI Improvements
• Rate Management & Agents
• AI Agents

Carrier Service

• Automated Document Processing
• Chatbot

Langfristig Planungen (Long-Term plans 2026 und weiter)

Der nächste Teil, unsere langfristigen Pläne, ist ein allgemeiner Überblick darüber, was wir letztendlich zu unserer Anwendung hinzufügen möchten, aber in absehbarer Zeit nicht daran arbeiten werden.
Dieser Teil könnte ein guter Ausgangspunkt sein, wenn Sie eine Erweiterung für unseren Marktplatz entwickeln oder direkt zur Anwendung beitragen möchten.

NX3 Plattform

• Performance Improvements
• New UI
• Security Improvements
• Partner History
• Replacement of Camunda Workflow Engine
• Tendering Enhancements & Improvements (3.0)
• Qualifications Enhancements
• Carrier Search Feature

Carrier Service

• New Sources
• Insurances

Wenn Sie weitere Fragen zu dieser Roadmap haben, kontaktieren Sie uns bitte über die üblichen Kanäle.

we’re proud to announce that our latest NX3 Core is released right now!

Core 5.0 includes a lot of new features, funcrion, iomprovements and fixes:

New Features

• Dynamic Business Profile
• Model organizational structures with teams (previously only possible with security groups)
• Demurrage processes
• NX3 Carrier Service

Improvements

• Tender
• Turnover
• Regions + relations
• Qualifications
• Spot Loads & Loading Space
• Geoservices

Technology

• Hibernate 6
• Angular 17
• Spring Boot 3.2.11
• KeyCloak 23.0.6
• Aspose replaced by POI

Technical Improvements

• Attachment feature improved.
• NX3 batch extended
• Audit log for master data improved

Bugfixes

• Error when inviting persons
• Address validation not correct
• Mapping of string fields
• Vat-ID Validation: Extension of the company name to 150 characters

As well some minor improvements at detail level and of course, libraries have also been updated and some performance and security improvements have been made.
And lookout – Core 6 is already in development!

Stay tuned for the updates!

mit großen Schritten kommt unser Core 5.0 Release (siehe auch hier Lookout – Core 5.0 is finally scheduled for october 2024!).

Anlass für uns, die kommende Roadmap 2024/2025 vorzustellen!

Und so wird die Roadmap gelesen : die Natur der agilen Softwareentwicklung impliziert, dass keine Pläne in Stein gemeißelt sind und sich die Roadmap ständig weiterentwickelt.
Wir erstellen jedoch weiterhin Pläne und können diese je nach Umsetzungszeitplan grob in 3 Stufen einteilen.

Dazu gilt, dass wir 2 x mal im Jahr ein Core Release publizieren, einmal Oktober/November und einmal April/Mai. Neu ist dieses mal die Ergänzung unseres NX3 Carrier Service als eigener Release Pfad. Detaillierte Planungen zu den Updates erfolgen dann wie gewohnt separat.

Kurzfristige Planungen (Short Term)

Zuerst kommen unsere konkreten Themen für das kommende Release, allerdings sind noch kleine Korrekturen und Anpassungen möglich.

Die ersten Details dazu sind bereits publiziert:

Mittelfristigen Planungen (Mid-Term plans 04/05-2025 & 10/11-2025)

Danach folgen die mittelfristigen Pläne. Die dort aufgeführten Elemente sind unsere vorrangigen Ziele für unsere zukünftigen zwei bis drei Core Release, die jeweils alle etwa alle 6 Monate erscheinen.
Diese Elemente sind weniger detailliert, sollen Ihnen aber einen allgemeinen Überblick über die Funktionen geben, an denen wir arbeiten.

NX3 Core

• Performance Improvements
• UI / UX Improvements
• Security Improvements
• Tendering Improvements
• Improved Qualifications
• Enhanced Profiles
• Onboarding Improvements
• Saved Searches & Improvements for Filtering
• Matching & Smart Dispatch Enhancements
• Reporting & KPI Improvements
• AI Improvements

Carrier Service

• Improved document learning
• New countries (SK, CZ, RO, BG)
• New sources (Sanction lists, Insolvency information)

Langfristig Planungen (Long-Term plans 2025/2026)

Der nächste Teil, unsere langfristigen Pläne, ist ein allgemeiner Überblick darüber, was wir letztendlich zu unserer Anwendung hinzufügen möchten, aber in absehbarer Zeit nicht daran arbeiten werden.
Dieser Teil könnte ein guter Ausgangspunkt sein, wenn Sie eine Erweiterung für unseren Marktplatz entwickeln oder direkt zur Anwendung beitragen möchten.

NX3 Core

• Performance Improvements
• UI / UX Improvement
• Security Improvements
• Partner History
• Replacement of Camunda Workflow Engine
• Tendering Enhancements & Improvements (3.0)
• Qualifications Enhancements
• Carrier Search Feature

Carrier Service

• Improvements performance
• New countries (IT, …)
• New sources (Insurances)

Wenn Sie weitere Fragen zu dieser Roadmap haben, kontaktieren Sie uns bitte über die üblichen Kanäle.

Our brand new Core 5.0 release is planned for October 2024 and is currently being implemented.
The new NX3 Core includes, among other things

Maintenance Update

• Current libraries (Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Angular, etc.)
• Elimination of ASPOSE and use of Apache POI

Security

• A lot of fixes, e.g. for Keycloak

Improvements

• many small and important improvements

Features

• Relations and regions are now combined
• Tenderings (2.0)
• Qualifications (2.0)
• Case Management (1.3)
• Carrier Service (CAS) with new data sources and improved interfaces

and many, many exciting areas!

We will announce the details on all topics again in August/September!

Your NX3 Team

Our NX3 Core 4.5 was released in late April!
Core 4.5 includes a some updated features and libraries for business:

New Features

• Case Module
  Unstructured processing of cases. E.g. support cases, damages, delays.
• Attachments Feature
  File attachments and comments for NX3 entities
• Communication Feature
  Incoming/outgoing correspondence. Implemented for email. Expandable for other channels (Messanger, Chatbot)
• Message Queue Feature
  Automated processing of system tasks
• Blob Feature
  Saving files in configurable data stores (NAS, S3, WEBDAV, …)
• Transport Module
  FTL/LTL disposition (Gantt) of loads and loading spaces

Improvements

• Extension of notifications for document shares
• Improvements for email processing, e.g. persistence of emails, Imap monitoring
• Allow evaluation of NX3 entities by anonymous users
• Improvement of validators and GUI in lifecycle management
• Improvements to fields and data types (rendering, filtering), customizable field actions
• Improvement of the UI of the comment component

Performance

• Improvement of the loading time of the lifecycle component
• Improvement of the performance when loading the qualifications list
• Improvement of the performance when making changes in Result of changes to verification definitions
• Improved performance when using the document share for many candidates

Security

• Update of the OAUTH/OPENID server infrastructure to Keycloak 24.0.5
• Improved NX3 security following a security audit: Remove insecure endpoints
• CVE-2024-22257: Possible Broken Access Control in Spring Security With Direct Use of AuthenticatedVoter

Bugfixes

• Qualification proofs are now audited
• Qualification proof can now be invalidated if qualification is canceled
• Search in dynamic translations is no longer case sensitive
• File names of document uploads are now curated
• Improvement of the auditing display for various NX3 types
• Document share data is now deleted when the employee is deleted
• Error in the standard onboarding process corrected when onboardings should be checked
• Bug fixes regarding uploads and downloads of DMN and BPM files on the process monitor corrected

As well some minor improvements at detail level and of course, libraries have also been updated and some performance and security improvements have been made.

For now we’re heading for a major release later this year called our Core 5.0 with a lot of enhancements and new features.

Stay tuned for the updates!

Our Core 4.5 (planned for Q1 2024) is already in development. Core 4.5 will have many new features, including

• New Lib for generating documents
• Key figures and dashboards
• Adjustable filters that can be saved as favorites
• Security adjustments
• Make VAT-ID auditable
• Document Analysis Agent
• and much more.

We will give you an update as soon as 4.5 is released for production!

With a little delay, our Core 4.4 release is now ready and in production.
Core 4.4 includes a major reorganization of the handling of media types and documents for optimal memory usage as well as many improvements
at detail level.

Of course, libraries have also been updated and some performance and security improvements have been made.