Synopsis
APL Logistics optimizes customers’ Asia distribution for supply chain efficiency and FTA application.
Customer Overview
- Leading apparel and accessories retailer operating more than 1,000 retail stores, mainly in North America and Asia
- Vertical/Commodity: Retail/Apparel and Accessory
- Services: China inbound customs Brokerage and trucking
Challenges
- Tight time window for customer clearance to meet customer’s speed-to-market requirement
- Complex China import customs process
- HTS Code Classification for China import merchandise
- Challenges to obtain accurate and complete documents from customer’s vendors to comply with Customs’ documentation requirements
- Long lead time from sample pickup to obtain CIQ certificate for the merchandise
Apl Logistics Solutions
- Maintain master data of HS codes, and perform HS classification 14 days before cargo ready date
- Docs pre-check at origins
- China FTA implementation
- CIQ process optimization
Benefits
- Improved HS code classification accuracy and efficiency
- Improved documentation accuracy
- Duty savings from Free Trade Agreement (FTA) application
- CIQ process optimization, shortening the lead time from sample pickup to CIQ result available for 7
working days
