REVOLUTIONIZING
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS:
AIRPORT CARGO COMMUNITY PLATFORM
ENHANCES EFFICIENCY,
REDUCES MANPOWER COSTS
AND OPTIMIZES ASSET UTILIZATION
Airport Community Platform To Speed Up
Air Cargo Imports And Exports,
Reduce Manpower Costs And Improve Asset Utilisation
Leading airports worldwide are embracing innovative Airport Cargo Community Platform, ushering in a new era of digital efficiency. This transformative platform digitizes the entire communication process, eliminating the need for traditional email and telephone exchanges.
The platform, spanning from quotation, booking to Stock Management, Air Waybill execution, and distribution, efficiently harmonizes operations for freight forwarders, ground handling firms, airlines, customs brokers, and trucking companies. Offering digitally secured payments, online approvals, advanced truck slot management, and gate management, it ensures end-to-end digitization for each shipment.
In the absence of ACS, the airport and its community face challenges like disparate systems, truck congestions, manual exchanges, error-prone data, and cargo movement invisibility.
A unified ACS platform brings streamlined processes, real-time information, reduced paper copies, counter queues elimination, enhanced business ease, and access to comprehensive business information through reports, intelligence, and data patterns, benefiting the entire airport ecosystem.
Diagrammatic representation of Before and After scenario of an Airport Cargo Community Platform
STAKEHOLDER BENEFITS
Freight Forwarders:
The system streamlines documentation management, enabling freight forwarding executives to handle a multitude of tasks with unprecedented efficiency. The need for navigating through multiple sites and the cumbersome process of creating and recreating documents diminishes, leading to a drastic reduction in follow-up efforts for documentation and approvals.
This operational optimization results in a substantial reduction in unit manpower costs for freight forwarders. Productivity skyrockets as the platform eliminates laborious and repetitive tasks, empowering executives to redirect their focus towards transaction oversight and enhanced customer service. Consequently, freight forwarders experience improved profitability and business growth, leveraging a resource base capable of seamlessly processing higher business volumes.
Cargo Handling Companies:
Air cargo ground handling companies at airports also reap extensive benefits from the platform specifically with reduced data capturing efforts and digital verification of documents. Digital Air Waybills (AWBs) streamline export operations with Advance Shipment Information (ASI), providing advance information on the trucks arriving, optimizing staff and dock utilization, and eradicating truck waiting times.
Shipment information received in advance, coupled with real-time communication of final weights, enhances planning efficiency for ground handling companies, eliminating manual steps such as Customs Declaration filing and enabling online screening reports.
Customs:
The platform empowers Customs to preview documents before the air cargo arrives in Turkey, ushering in the era of digital trade-lanes. Additionally, the platform facilitates seamless Air Waybill processing and handling of SB (Sevk Bildirim) number, alleviating the workload for both freight forwarders and customs employees involved in export processes.
This integration of advanced technology not only modernizes but also helps the Customs to meet compliance standards thereby creating a more efficient and harmonised ecosystem for global trade.
EXPORTS FLOW
ADVANTAGE ACS
Streamlined
Communication:
The entire communication process, from enquiry to quotation requests, is digitized, reducing reliance on emails and phone calls.
Stakeholders, including freight forwarders, airlines, trucking companies, customs brokers, and ground handling companies, seamlessly interact through a common portal for quotation, booking, and AWB stock management and distribution.
Efficient AWB Stock Management and
e-Booking:
Booking requests via emails become obsolete with the digitization of stock management through a unified portal. The electronic booking process with airlines is streamlined, eliminating manual procedures.
Online AWB Creation and Slot Booking:
AWBs are created online and submitted to Ground Handling Agents (GHAs), eradicating manual AWB slip copies. GHAs receive shipment information in advance, allowing them to communicate the final weight via the platform.
Real-Time Shipment Visibility:
Shipment details, including date and timestamps, are accessible in real time for all stakeholders. The platform supports the consumption and transmission of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages, ensuring efficient communication throughout the process. This comprehensive digitization enhances efficiency, reduces manual efforts, and fosters a seamless exchange of information in the export ecosystem.
Digital Payments and Invoicing:
Paperless shipment processing is achieved through digital dockets, where FFs and Customs Brokers (CBs) submit documents online. Customs, GHAs, and airlines view and exchange invoices, and online payment of storage charges via a payment gateway streamlines the process.
Digital Customs Declaration Processing:
The handling and sharing of SB (Sevk Bildirim) number are digitized, removing manual processes between GHAs and Freight Forwarders (FFs). Online screening reports and verification of export Customs declarations through the platform eliminate the need for physical document handling.
IMPORTS FLOW
IMPORTS BENEFITS
Pre-Arrival Declaration:
Özet Beyan for consol shipments is digitally provided to Ground Handling Agents (GHAs) through the platform, allowing for the digital verification of received shipments against pre-arrival declarations.
This process includes the digital provision of origin documents to customs, eliminating manual handling.
Segregation Report and Arrival Advice:
Physical communication for arrival and segregation processing becomes obsolete as airlines and customs can download and view digitized segregation reports. Additionally, the platform enables the digitized visibility of Advice of Arrival.
e-Ordino Processing:
The Ordino process undergoes digitization, encompassing release by GHAs and the digitized payment of Ordino charges.
This eliminates the need for physical document handovers by Freight Forwarders (FFs) to Customs Brokers (CBs) and reduces agent trips to counters. Customs declarations are digitally filed by CBs via the portal, accompanied by digital status updates.
Customs Verification and Warehouse Exit Document:
Import Customs declarations are verified online via the ACS Portal by GHAs, eradicating the need for physical stamping processes and reducing processing time.
Payment of Storage Charges and Release Order:
Online payment of storage charges facilitates a seamless exchange of invoices, while the provision of release orders online eliminates the need for physical copies.
Real-Time Shipment Visibility:
Shipment details, including date and timestamps, are accessible in real-time for all stakeholders.
The platform’s capability to consume and transmit Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages ensures efficient communication across the logistics process, contributing to a more agile and streamlined operational landscape.
