Based on the County Administrative Board Skåne’s current analysis of municipal coordinated commodity distribution (SV) in 33 municipalities (2016) and subsequent competence development projects with 9 participating municipalities (2017), there is an explicit need from the municipalities themselves to anchor the introduction of SV in 3 Scanian municipal clusters. The preliminary study focuses on cluster collaboration as the limit for profitability in transport volumes at one SV is at about 30,000 inhabitants, which is more than the population of most individual municipalities. The foundation is best done through skills development and investigating the practical conditions for implementing SV. In the first phase, 2 full-day workshops are conducted on coordinated product distribution (competence development) including pre- and post-work with the support of a specialist. At the end of phase 1, each municipality will have produced documentation that compiles the municipality’s unique prerequisites to introduce coordinated commodity distribution in cluster collaboration. In the second phase, two workshops address resource needs and cost-benefit analysis and forms of cluster collaboration and division of responsibility. The municipalities will be supported by a specialist to investigate and develop an action plan for the introduction of coordinated goods distribution in cluster collaboration during phase 2. The action plan will address the division of responsibility for procurement issues, the purchasing process, logistics and transport issues. The preliminary study is expected to lead to an implementation project with the objective of implementing co-distribution in three municipal clusters (approximately 60 000 inhabitants per cluster). This is expected to provide an annual energy efficiency of at least 3600 MWh or 780 tonnes of CO2 eq. An additional carbon dioxide reduction of between 15-55 tons of CO2 eq. can be achieved by setting demands on renewable fuels in transport. The business model will challenge the transport industry and give small local suppliers greater opportunities to participate in procurements as they will deliver to a distribution centre and not to all the municipal kitchens as in free delivery.