ATMS is helping clients to become ICS ready, and is offering advice and services to all importers, distributors and logistics service providers. 

The good news is that ICS is pan-European and you only need to do the declaration once, into whatever EC country the import first lands. In the UK, HM Revenue and Customs will be the gateway for this information.  

ATMS is developing an ICS module as part of its Global Track solution. Global Track is a hosted, web based, global supply chain track and trace solution, incorporating a communications hub to link external systems and applications.  

ICS is only the first stage of the EC-wide Automated Import System (AIS) initiative which seeks to ensure that import operations starting in one member state can be completed in any of the other member states without re-submitting the same information.

This includes the exchange of electronic messages with customs, traders, traders' representatives and other government bodies.

The ATMS Global Track solution can track goods, materials and consignments from the point of manufacture, for instance in the Far East, to the unloading of the container at the importers warehouse.

The RemLab, remote labelling and consigning module, is the first stage in the process. RemLab that identifies, uniquely, each carton and its contents, records the contents on the shipping container or unit load device and provides this information electronically, along with packing lists and manifests, to all key partners along the supply chain.  

Steve Warburton, Director of ATMS commented: "Remember, ICS is only just over a year away. Now is the time to start planning and at the same time to see if you can streamline some of your systems and procedures."  

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