By integrating your ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning system) or OMS (Order Management system) with myCCL, you no longer need to re-enter the commercial invoice data, when booking a shipment.
Instead, the required information is imported along with the shipping data, to populate the fields and create the commercial invoice for the carrier.
This can save you an estimated 20 minutes per order.
As the commercial invoice data is not being re-entered manually, this reduces the chance of errors.
If the descriptions of your goods, their country of origin, commodity codes, weights, etc are all correctly stored in your ERP system, then automation reduces the risk of shipments being stopped and delayed at border, if any of the information is incorrect.
myCCL also flags any missing data fields or where additional information is required, based on the specific carrier requirements.
The platform can even check contact numbers provided for the buyer match the expected country code, and prompt for additional contact details if necessary.
Automating the process takes the responsibility of entering the commercial invoice data away from the warehouse floor. This frees people up to work on more productive tasks, such as picking and packing more orders.
By saving time per order, you increase your throughput, and during peak times, this may mean recruiting fewer temporary staff.
As long as you can export or expose the relevant data held in your ERP or OMS, myCCL will have all the information to produce the commercial invoice.
This then gets transmitted electronically to the carrier, at the time of making a booking, in order to return the shipping label.
Integrating with myCCL not only allows you to automate commercial invoices, but also allows you to automate the label generation process for all orders, including UK ones.
There are three possible ways to do this and improve efficiency:
