The 35-page guide to the German ordering standard that everyone uses and few can explain. Technology, history, market map, and the five limits worth knowing before you plan a project. Written in German.
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Key BenefitsChapters 1 to 9 describe the standard independently of any vendor. Chapter 10 onwards is our own answer, and it is marked as such.
MSV3 is one of those standards that everyone uses and few can explain. There is a specification for developers and there are vendor product pages. Between the two sits a gap, and in that gap work the people who have to order every day. This whitepaper fills it.
The first nine chapters sell nothing. They explain the standard, its history, its limits and the market around it, including where that does not speak in our favour. A whitepaper that advertises from page three is not passed on, and being passed on is the whole point.
Purchasing, sales, IT and management in pharmaceutical trade, industry, hospital supply and at the vendors of warehouse management systems. In short, everyone who orders, wants to be ordered from, or both.
Three sources, kept apart. The public documents of the standard bodies and our own technical article on services and response codes. Our own analysis of the public MSV3 provider directory as of 16 August 2026: 212 listed access points, 198 companies after clean-up. And sales conversations from our own team between May 2025 and August 2026, quoted only as a share, never as an absolute number.
If you read only one page, read that one. It is written so that you can join the conversation afterwards, and every statement is derived in the chapter behind it.
Our own analysis of the public provider directory. Who actually operates an access point, in which segment they sit, and where the selling side is run in house rather than bought in.
No market price, no guaranteed availability, no suppliers outside Germany, no security answer inside the standard, and no multi-tenancy as a given. Four of the five apply to every vendor equally.
A checklist for your selection process, deliberately written so that you can apply it to us as well. Question four and question seven are the ones with the highest yield.
