Cargo Management

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Cargo Management Re-engineering
System eBusiness, eGovernment and eXports
5 November 2004
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The more things change
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Scope of ICS project

• 16 529 business rules
• Approx 23 000 function points
• 146 formal project deliverables
• 799 screens (web pages)
• 70 complex EDIFACT business messages
• 490 database tables

• 74 batch jobs
• 91 reports
• 24 sub-system components
• 35 system interfaces
• 18 664 pages of analysis and design documentation

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A changing environment

• Imports boom of the 1950s
• Introduction of electronic processing in the
  1970s and 1980s
• International focus and cooperation
• Emphasis on risk management
• Global trade facilitation
• Modernisation program in the 1990s

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Recent drivers for change

• Trade growth 3.25 per annum
• Global trading and door-to-door services
• Pressure on IT infrastructure
• Disparate Systems
• Changing expectation of Australian Government

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Cargo management transactions

• Annual transaction levels
• 1.2 million exports clearances
• 3 million import entries
• 4 million container movements
• 100,000 flight movements
• Collection of 5.5 billion in duties

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Managing change process

• Industry test environment set up
• Software developers and industry representative
  participation
• Training and awareness program
• Scenario testing
• Business day simulations

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E-Government
AQIS
ATO
Customs
- Collect revenue - Issue ABNs
- Facilitate cargo - Protect community - Revenue
liability
- Protect community - Regulate goods of
interest - Recover costs
PERMIT ISSUING AUTHORIES
ABS
- Collate, analyse and report statistical informat
ion
- Maintain standards - Regulate goods of
interest
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E-Business supply chain
Storage/ Warehouse
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Securing the system
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Message transaction volumes

• Exports messages (estimates)
• 6.2 million inbound messages
• 24.6 million outbound messages
• Imports messages (estimates)
• 31 million inbound
• 74 million outbound

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System functionality

• All functions catered for in a single system
• High-risk transactions and alert/profile matching
  brought together into a single process
• Links with other intelligence data holdings to
  determine risk
• Supports EDI for high-volume customers
• Single repository of client information and
  consolidated view of individual client activity

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System architecture
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CMR key benefits

• Supports industrys high level of take up of
  electronic reporting
• Enhanced risk assessment and management
  capability
• Faster clearance and release of legitimate cargo
• Ability to target intelligence to intervene at a
  level appropriate with level of risk
• Providing Internet and EDI access via PKI and
  secure eGovernment channels

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CMR vision
The integration of people, processes and
technology through the provision of a strategy
for the future management of international
cargo. Simplified, flexible and timely
interactions among stakeholders and
responsiveness to emerging requirements.