Abstract: A logistics service provider includes at least one working workarea, the at least one working workarea used for at least one of logistics planning, logistics execution, handling transactional data and handling global master data, at least one template workarea, the at least one template workarea used for at least one of generating templates for performing various operations and storing the generated templates and at least one customer workarea, the at least one customer workarea storing at least one of customer specific master data and customer specific configuration information. At least one of the logistics planning and logistics execution is performed for a customer in the working workarea, using at least one of the customer specific master data and the customer specific configuration information retrieved from that customer's at least one customer workarea.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for reconciling data. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a first data corresponding to an expected state of at least one of a plurality of objects. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include creating a second data corresponding to an actual state of the at least one of the plurality of objects and comparing the first data to the second data to determine if the actual state corresponds to the expected state. In addition, systems and methods are disclosed for determining and applying rules to data. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a data comprising a root element and at least one leaf element, the root element having attributes and the attributes comprising characteristics.