Business Cases| Category | B2B (B2B – Business to Business) | | The Challenge | To reduce delays and lower costs by 1% of merchandize value. Introduce automated customs, lowering direct costs of customs clearance by the equivalent of 0.2% of the value of traded goods. Total logistics costs (packaging, storage, transport, inventories, administration and management) are estimated at up to 20% of total production costs in OECD countries. PDMark is able to achieve the following:
Secure, fraud-resistant process paperwork of freight movement document processes provides benefits to: - Classical physical paper presence, which everybody is able to check without specialized equipment
- Secure cryptographic data transfer between various logistic software systems.
Simplification and automation of related processes: - Data capture for customs and tax purposes
- Automation / process simplification of the customs and tax procedures
| | Environment | Areas where transportation and logistics need optimization; freight movement of paperwork needs to be secured, optimized and reduced. | | The Solution | PDMark provides - efficient data protection in a low cost solution to simplify and secure partial logistics procedures. All documents created in the logistic process (invoice, receipt, order, freight bill etc) contain additional information about creator; time of creation and electronic signature. Such information is securely inserted inside the document background. The document carries all necessary information and can be verified and tracked at any time. Only authorized persons are allowed to verify or create the PDMark-ed document and nobody is able to modify or forge it. | | Description | The PDMark logistic system consists of two main workplaces:
Workplace of document creation - Shipper documents: shipment request, invoice.
- Carrier documents: freight bill, delivery receipt, shipment tracing documents, notice of arrival
- Customs office: shipment tracing documents, duty paperwork
Common laser printer and application equipment for this operation is sufficient. After creation, it is able to verify the authenticity of the document wherever necessary.
Workplace of document verification - Receiver: invoice, freight accounting, warehouse, inventory documents
- Customs office: duty paperwork, shipment tracing documents
- Tax office: duty paperwork
A PC with standard scanner and verification application is appropriate for this operation. After several seconds the complete document is displayed with no doubts as to its authenticity and reliability. | | Benefits | Primary Benefits: - Improved logistics processes where goods and data movements are synchronized with goods logistics movements
- Faster turnaround in shipping reduces inventory cost and lead-time delays
- Overall transportation logistics information processing costs are reduced as data processing infrastructure
requirements are driven by operational needs, not heterogeneous IT and networking systems - Instant integration of small logistics operations where manual paper process is optimal
- Medium-sized operations can progressively implement automated data transfer to in-house IT
(warehouse, store systems, accounts payable etc) without elaborate data networking requirements - Large operations can integrate and implement sophisticated IT electronic data interfaces with enterprise
resource planning systems (i.e. SAP, PeopleSoft etc.)
Secondary Benefits: - Reduced data integration delays due to automated hard copy data integration with Information systems
- Elimination of data key entry errors and associated costs
- Reduced direct labor costs
- Reduced indirect labor cost due to simplified information systems deployments
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