US Customs and Border Protection certifies Four Softs’ eCustoms Application 4S eCustoms® - “the US edition”
Hyderabad 20th,July’11: Four Soft (4S) (NSE: "FOURSOFT", BSE: 532521), a global leader offering software solutions for logistics and transportation industry , today announced that its global Customs Compliance application 4S eCustoms® has been officially certified by the US customs & Border Protection(USCBP). This certification has been successfully processed through Four Soft USA Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Four Soft Limited in India.
According to CBP, any software application that interfaces with the US Customs & Border Protection ABI application to file Customs entries must pass a certification test defined by CBP. For software vendors, this entails a rigorous exercise that tests both the software and the user to apply the complex business and regulatory rules to report the value, origin, duty obligations, and other details for 100 unique importation scenarios.
Rajshekhar Roy, CEO, Four Soft, Commented,” We are excited to begin this new fiscal year with our 4S eCustoms® application being certified after passing stringent Customs Clearance requirements set by the US Customs. This product release and Certification completes our product suite for the US market and will help us penetrate the market significantly in this financial year. We already have three clients scheduled to deploy 4S eCustoms® operationally this July. There is also a strong pipeline for this product which we will now follow through on.
Four Soft completed “the Long test”, as CBP calls it on June 21, 2011 to start off the summer on a fantastic high note. As a long time ABI vendor, Four Soft was not actually required to complete the full, rigorous test a second time, but the team saw this as an opportunity to more fully vet the new offering.
Cathy Clausen, Sr.General Manager of Client Services, who actually completed the testing, said “We have the knowledge and experience to know when a transaction is right, but we did not want to cut corners, and we made this achievement a key milestone in our project plan.” She further added, ”The history with our legacy application was huge advantage, but to tie that functionality to our existing eCustoms suite that files entries in Canada, India, Singapore, and Europe with the same basic flow and user experience was an exciting challenge and what makes the application uniquely Four Soft’s.”
“The eCustoms US eDition is a very strong addition to our global eCustoms platform’’ added Phil Pearse, Four Soft’s Functional Design Architect for the project. “The US Customs clearance market is certainly one of the most demanding and sophisticated in the world and the whole
eCustoms team has worked wonders to build the application so quickly - I don’t think anyone has ever designed, built, and successfully tested a US Customs ABI system in less than one year, and that is exactly what we have just accomplished.”
About Four Soft Limited
Four Soft is a public listed and CMMI level 5 appraised company which provides innovative software solutions, IT consultancy and BPO services exclusively for the logistics and supply-chain management market place. It is the market leader in the transportation and logistics segment with a large international client base including the majority of the top logistics & transportation companies in the world. With regional offices strategically located worldwide, it supports customers including DHL, DB Schenker, UTI and Geodis Wilson. Additional information about Four Soft is available at www.four-soft.com
Four Soft offers a full suite of web-native products across the logistics supply chain. This includes 4S eTrans® for freight forwarding and logistics, 4S eLog® for extended warehouse management, 4S Visilog® & 4S VisiLog plus® for track & trace, visibility and supply-chain management, 4S eCustoms® for customs brokerage, 4S iShipping® for shipping line execution, 4S eConnect® for business-to-business connectivity and 4S Infotips for informed decision making.
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