ATLANTA, Nov. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq: DSGX) (TSX: DSG), the global leader in unifying logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Automated Logistics Systems, based in Michigan, uses Descartes. ‘ Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) solution to help its customers speed up customs clearance and reduce costs of imports into the United States by deferring the payment of many duties.
“With our Jackson, Michigan, warehouse already established in a FTZ, we wanted to make customs compliance as simple and cost-effective as possible for our customers,” said Paul McDonald, strategic advisor at Automated Logistics Systems. “The Descartes solution helps us maximize the operational benefits and cost savings of FTZs through automation while ensuring compliance with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations. By automating customs declaration procedures, digitizing back-office operations and increasing shipment visibility, we have improved FTZ services for our customers until their goods leave for the domestic market.
A free trade zone is a federally authorized secure zone in which domestic and foreign commercial goods receive the same treatment from CBP as if they were outside of United States commerce. The Descartes FTZ solution enables importers and logistics service providers (LSPs) to comply with CBP regulatory requirements for operating a FTZ in the United States by automating detailed chain of custody, access and control processes. , release of shipments and record keeping. The solution is also used to streamline shipping management, customs clearance, classification and warehousing. The Descartes FTZ solution can be operated as a standalone module or as part of an enterprise’s broader trade compliance platform.
“We are pleased to help Automated Logistics Systems improve FTZ operations at its Michigan warehouse,” said Scott Sangster, managing director of Logistics Service Providers at Descartes. “Importers have different reasons and scenarios for using a FTZ to help defer, reduce or eliminate duty payments; however, many do not have expertise in free trade zone compliance and look to language service providers to manage free trade zone movements. With our solution, LSPs can provide the FTZ services that importers need, without adding labor costs, by automating many repetitive and labor-intensive processes associated with goods control, supply chain requirements. control and entry deposit standards.
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About automated logistics systems
What is today called Automated Logistics Systems (ALS) began before the Great Depression as Parker Motor Freight (PMF). Over the following decades, the family business PMF grew despite difficult economic times and personal setbacks. The organization eventually grew into what it is today: a true end-to-end logistics partner for businesses across the continent. ALS provides value-added asset-less transportation and warehousing solutions and, for customers having difficulty managing their end-to-end supply chain, ALS offers a fully managed transportation service which is a meticulously designed solution that relies on cutting-edge cutting-edge technology. For more information, visit www.automatedlogistics.com.
About Descartes
Descartes (Nasdaq: DSGX) (TSX: DSG) is the global leader in providing on-demand software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, security and sustainability of logistics-intensive businesses . Customers use our modular software-as-a-service solutions to route, track and help improve the security, performance and compliance of delivery assets; plan, distribute and execute shipments; evaluate, verify and pay transport invoices; access global trade data; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and carry out many other logistics processes by participating in the world’s largest collaborative multimodal logistics community. Our headquarters is in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we have offices and partners around the world. Learn more about www.descartes.comand connect with us on LinkedIn And Twitter.
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