Facilitating >90% Transparency in EXIM Operations for a Fortune 500 Company with Kale’s Logistics & Customs Control Tower

Facilitating >90% Transparency in EXIM Operations for a Fortune 500 Company with Kale’s Logistics & Customs Control Tower

Our client is a fortune 500 company working towards optimised sourcing of perishables from a global network of farmers and operates in 60+ countries worldwide serving nearly 22,000 customers for more than three decades.

Lack of transparency in EXIM operations

Like several other large-scale exporters in the world, our client too faced a lack of visibility and transparency in operations. In turn, this reflected their topline and affected their day-to-day operations thereby not allowing them to realise their true potential to be achieved.

Hence, our client required a smart solution to actively coordinate with its logistics services providers and scale operations for better management of operations in the long-run. In short, they needed a fully integrated platform was aimed to enable real-time insights on their international shipments and customs clearance process.

Leveraging Kale’s role as an enabler

Kale Logistics Solutions’ Logistics & Customs Control Tower (LCCT) connects supply chain stakeholders such as Freight Forwarders, Customs Brokers, and other stakeholders with entities and business units of the group companies spread across the globe. Equipped with pre-defined controls in terms of approval mechanism and access rights, this platform acts as an enabler and controller of shipment and shipment-related information – including documents – in a single dashboard.

The platform encompasses functionalities related to import-export of commodities, documentation/controls for better document management, optimised operational visibility thwarting blindspots in the ecosystem, integration with third party systems and track and trace including Licenses, Duty Drawback Schemes, Certificates, Bond Management etc. Transparency on cargo movement is available through interface with internal systems of Port as well as Airport operators in different regions.

As a result, the client is now realising

Measurable impact

40% faster turnaround time

30% optimised efficiency

50% reduction in paperless operations

98% improvement in data accuracy

100% paperless operations

Testimonial

Be it customs clearance, document storage or retrieval mechanism, Kale’s logistics & customs control tower offers a 360-degree solution for any shipper. Moreover, it offers integration with third party systems were seamless now we are realizing significant business synergies.

– Chief Innovation Officer

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