Accelerate your Supply Chain with Customs Automation
Cut Release Times from Hours to Minutes and Reduce Border Delays
Remove delays and waiting times at borders by managing customs operations in-house. With direct control over your processes and by leveraging customs automation, you can act instantly instead of waiting for brokers to respond, cutting release times from hours to minutes.
Real-time connections between your ERP, logistics, and customs systems eliminate bottlenecks, reduce dependency on external parties, and keep goods moving smoothly across borders. Full visibility over every shipment allows you to plan with confidence, minimise disruptions, and maintain efficient delivery timelines.
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Cut release times from hours to minutes
Customs automation software shortens release times by removing manual steps and preventing errors before declarations reach customs. Automated validation and early checks ensure declarations are complete and accurate, reducing rejections and eliminating unexpected waiting times for corrections or missing documents.
With a single message double filing flow, one data submission covers both export and import declarations, streamlining cross-border movements and avoiding duplicate processing. This end-to-end automation accelerates clearance, reduces handovers, and keeps goods moving smoothly, resulting in faster releases and a more resilient supply chain.
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Decrease lead times and reduce border delays
Reducing lead times starts with removing uncertainty at the border. Faster and more predictable customs clearance keeps goods moving, which is especially important for perishable products where delays can shorten shelf life and increase waste. For any product, delays can lead to unhappy customers and cause significant reputational damage.
With customs automation, releases are near immediate, so trucks no longer need to wait hours for customs documents before continuing their journey. Potential errors can be corrected instantly, preventing delays and safeguarding uninterrupted flows. Faster, more controlled clearance also enables longer shipping windows, flexible routing, and mitigation strategies that keep supply chains running smoothly at all times.
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Enable real-time visibility
Real-time visibility gives you immediate insight into the status of every shipment and customs process. Instead of relying on delayed updates or broker emails, you have up-to-date information available at all times, allowing you to monitor flows and respond quickly when attention is needed.
With customs automation and all data consolidated in one platform, you gain accurate, real-time reporting that delivers strategic insights into customs performance, bottlenecks, and risks across your supply chain. This visibility supports better planning, faster decision-making, and proactive management.
At the same time, consolidated and auditable data enables C-level reporting, post-clearance compliance checks, and out-of-the-box dashboards to analyse performance, identify gaps and anomalies, and continuously improve customs operations across your supply chain.
The Customs Automation Software that Accelerates your Supply Chain
CAS replaces manual customs tasks with intelligent automation that handles declarations, Special Procedures, and excise management in one platform. CAS connects with your ERP and processes customs declarations in real time. You can get compliant declarations released in less than 5 minutes, accelerating your supply chain. More than 100 validation checks ensure accuracy and compliance, reducing errors, and supporting fast clearance and smooth border crossings. Managing customs in-house allows you to correct issues on the spot, keeping declarations on track for release in under 5 minutes even when problems arise. You gain real-time visibility and full control of your customs processes, which helps you run a faster and more reliable supply chain.
What Our Customers Say
"Declaration times have been cut by more than 50%, dropping from around 30 minutes per shipment to as little as 10 minutes. In some cases, declarations are completed in under five minutes."
"Beyond its cost efficiency, CAS also saves us a significant amount of time in the declaration process. Since everything is triggered automatically from our ERP system, creating a declaration takes just one minute, and it is typically released in CAS within another minute. In contrast, working with brokers previously took at least 30 minutes to complete the end-to-end customs declaration process."
"Our waiting times reduced massively. Compared to brokers, where waiting times for declarations could take up to four hours, with CAS, it’s instant. "
"One of the biggest advantages of automation for Olenex is improved time efficiency. With CAS, obtaining a released customs declaration now takes approximately 10 minutes, compared to at least an hour previously."
"Reducing response times from hours to mere minutes makes a huge difference for us. Additionally, our team can resolve any potential errors immediately, preventing the delays that used to be a regular occurrence."
"The time our team saves on this is incredible, and it still amazes me since we are ‘only’ using Excel uploads, a ‘soft integration’, to lodge our customs declarations in CAS. Imagine the time-saving when we move to the full API integration with our ERP system SAP! I’m really looking forward to that."
"CAS brings us huge time savings. Exports are now completed 75% quicker, and our import declarations have sped up by 50%. We used to wait for our broker to process our declarations for up to four hours. With CAS, our declarations are released in a fraction of that time."
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