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Maintain strong supply chains by digitising and automating your customs processes

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What our customers say

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Automating our customs declarations has helped us expedite import, export, and transit between the EU and UK as well as incoming shipments from the US to our warehouse in Belgium. The quick onboarding provided by KPMG and C4T allowed us to rapidly leverage CAS to gain efficiencies and streamline customs management, accelerating our time to value.

Alexandre Dumont de Chassart
Yakima Chief - Director of Operations Europe
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CAS helps us support our rapidly expanding export operations. We are realising significant improvements in the time-critical export shipment process. With the investment in our Wielsbeke plant, we will increase our capacity by 50%. CAS helps the shipping department keep pace with our growth and realise bottom-line customs duty savings.

Carmen Wallays
Agristo - Procurement & Logistics Director
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By combining our expertise and experience, KPMG and C4T were able to quickly and smoothly transition Yakima Chief to CAS—a digital customs management solution that will scale as they grow. This is yet another example of how KPMG and C4T’s combined offerings can help customers gain a competitive advantage by shoring up their customs operations and bringing them in-house.

Frederik Cappelle
KPMG - Customs, Excise & International Trader Services
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Before the onboarding process started, we had just one concern: whether C4T would be able to deliver what they promised. We have a lot of shipments, so the standards are very high, and the work is extremely demanding. We were wondering whether the nice sales pitch would provide us with the benefits that were presented and whether the workload would really decrease with CAS. Having implemented CAS, I now have the assurance that this was an unnecessary concern since we are clearly seeing the savings in workload, time, and costs.

Thierry Boi
Volys - Head of Logistics & Outsourced Processes

Overcoming the challenges

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Accelerate your time to market

The speed at which your customs processes are carried out plays a crucial role in ensuring smooth operations. If you are part of the supply chain team, you may not pay much attention to what happens in the customs department...until something goes wrong. Unwanted delays can mean the difference between fresh products reaching your customers or costly waste, fines, claims, and unhappy customers.  This can all be avoided by taking back control and automating your customs operations.

With our customs software, we can ensure efficient customs operations with minimum delays and waiting time at the borders and maximum visibility in your supply chain.

In particular, CAS’s single message, double filing feature allows organisations to file their export declarations from one country and import declarations to another country simultaneously, with one single message. With expedited customs clearance using CAS and the ability to offer the DDP Incoterm®, you can obtain competitive advantage. 

Realise significant cost savings

One of the biggest challenges you may face around cost is the issue of customs duties and VAT payments. It's important to be aware of how much cash can be held hostage and tied up in these payments at any given time. They can seriously impact your cash flow and limit your ability to respond to changes in the market, invest in strategic initiatives, or handle unforeseen challenges.

Increasing the efficiency of your customs operations can help you better serve your customers and save money in the long run. With our automated, digital customs management solution, CAS, you can reduce the cost per transaction 10-20x. 

Apart from the savings on declaration costs, applying Special Procedures can help you gain significant cash flow benefits, as they  allow you to store, temporarily use, process, or repair your goods and receive either suspension, partial, or complete relief from import duty.

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Elevate your data quality

Data quality plays a vital role in ensuring that your customs processes run smoothly. As the saying goes, "bad data in, bad data out," which is true in any industry. If you don't get your data and customs processes right, this can impact your customs declarations and reporting, and you may face fines, delays, or unhappy internal and external customers.

Relying on manual, time-consuming processes in the traditional customs approach can lead to operational inefficiencies and increase the likelihood of errors in data entry and processing. We believe that automation is the solution you need to take back control of your data and streamline your customs operations. 

Benefits

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Eliminate delays

Don’t let a customs error hold up your entire shipment. CAS ensures the proper paperwork is filed to keep your trade running seamlessly.

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Automation

With end-to-end automation, compliance and process optimisation, your business can reduce its administrative and duty costs by more than 90%.

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Guaranteed compliance

Ensure the timely submission of declarations and Special Procedures reporting and make sure all your goods are properly classified to avoid delays and fees. 

Guaranteed compliance

Respond quickly to time-critical processes with a team of customs experts at your disposal.