Customs IT systems in a company

Customs IT systems are an integral part of operational customs handling, enabling customs processes to be automated and made more efficient, while at the same time increasing compliance levels. In this course, you will get an insight into the typical setup of the customs IT structure of enterprises. Furthermore, approaches for an efficient process integration will be explained.

The course is one of the modules of the extensive Customs clearance and trade compliance in the EU training (see the brochure).

Lessons

The course consists of 7 lessons:

1. Introduction to customs IT systems
2. General overview of customs IT landscape
3. Handling customs procedures: an ideally integrated setup, declaration systems, transit
4. Central customs IT processes: classification, preferential origin
5. Export control processes
6. Feeder systems, data integration, IT security 
7. Project management

After watching the videos and doing the readings (provided in the resources section), please take the quiz. In addition, you can read articles of interest on the platform during the entire learning period (after purchasing the course, you will get access to the articles).

Outcome

At the end of the module, you shoud have the knowledge about:

• The development of EU customs IT systems;
• The possibilities of the use of declaration systems by a company;
• How company's IT systems work/ should work for successful customs and export control compliance management;
• Main IT security aspects;
• How to manage the implementation of customs IT systems in a company;
• The integration of customs IT to make it usable in the interaction with a company’s ERP system landscape.

Upon successful completion of the quiz (more than 60% of the questions must be answered correctly), you will receive a certificate of completion.

Time

Please plan around 4 hours to complete this course.

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