BEST (Business Group for Electronic Commerce Standards in Transport) was established in 1994 by a group of companies and organisations in the transport sector primarily to support the work of the European EDIFACT Transport Group EEG2.

BEST is involved in the Electronic Commerce standards, including:
- EDI (Electronic Data Interchange).
- Internet communication especially ebXML.
- Automatic identifications techniques for transported goods: barcoding, such as the Multi Industry Transport Label (MITL), Radiofrequency tags? etc.
- Mobile datacommunication.