Automated duty/tax calculation and notifications

Purpose

1.1. The automation of duty/tax calculation and notifications aims to streamline customs processes in freight forwarding, reducing human error and latency, automating compliance verifications, ensuring timely alerts to stakeholders, calculating duties/taxes per shipment, and supporting automated documentation generation for customs clearance.
1.2. Automating this process centralizes tax rules, automates cross-border fee calculations, automates dispatch of real-time notifications to clients, and simplifies integration with ERP/accounting systems for automated duty reconciliation.
1.3. Automator solutions ensure all statutory changes in duties/tax rates are referenced, automating compliance to local/import/export regulations, and reducing manual intervention through end-to-end automation.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. New shipment creation automates duty/tax checks for each consignment.
2.2. Customs documentation upload automates duty calculation workflows.
2.3. Receiving shipping/freight info from partners with automatable triggers for tax estimation.
2.4. Inbound updates on regulatory changes automate recalculation routines.
2.5. Payment events for freight services automates notification of duty amounts due.
2.6. Status change on shipment (e.g., goods in transit, arrived) automates sending consolidated duty/tax summary notifications.

Platform Variants

3.1. SAP Global Trade Services
• Feature/Setting: Automated Duty Calculation APIs—configure custom tax rules to automate country-specific computation; automate workflow triggers upon order entry or shipment status change.
3.2. Descartes CustomsInfo
• Feature/Setting: Duty Rate Lookup API—configure webhook integration to automate queries and notifications based on shipment events.
3.3. Avalara AvaTax
• Feature/Setting: Transaction API—set up automated address validation and real-time tax calculation; configure notification triggers on completed calculations.
3.4. Oracle Transportation Management
• Feature/Setting: Compliance Management Automation—auto-trigger duty/tax estimation and automatedly send results via notification channels.
3.5. WiseTech CargoWise
• Feature/Setting: Customs Automation Module—configure workflow automator to calculate and notify for new consignments.
3.6. Flexport
• Feature/Setting: Shipment Lifecycle API—enable automation for duty/tax estimation events and push automated notifications to clients.
3.7. Kewill Customs
• Feature/Setting: Automated customs brokerage linked to auto-calculate and notify on submission of shipment info.
3.8. QAD Precision Transportation
• Feature/Setting: Duty & Tax Automation—configure triggers for duty estimate calculations at shipment origination points.
3.9. FarEye
• Feature/Setting: Event automation system—trigger workflows when shipment created, automating customs duty/tax calculation modules.
3.10. Project44
• Feature/Setting: Webhook integration—automate notification alerts after automated duty/tax computation.
3.11. Expedock
• Feature/Setting: Document Automation AI—automatically extract freight docs and trigger automated duty/tax notifications.
3.12. SAP S/4HANA
• Feature/Setting: Event-Driven Automation—auto-trigger duties/taxes calculation and automate notifications by integrating with customs data sources.
3.13. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain
• Feature/Setting: Automated Calculation Engine—enable automating tax and duties estimations on new transaction line creation with inbuilt automator.
3.14. Salesforce Flow
• Feature/Setting: Flow automation—auto-trigger customs fees calculation and configure notification email/SMS automation.
3.15. Google Cloud Functions
• Feature/Setting: Automated serverless functions—invoke duty calculation routines and automate notifications upon event triggers.
3.16. AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: Serverless automation—automatedly execute custom code for tax calculation, then push automated alert to subscribers.
3.17. MuleSoft
• Feature/Setting: API automation—connect third-party tax databases, automate data exchange for duty calculation, and automatedly notify partners.
3.18. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Automated Zap workflows—configure event-driven duty/tax calculation step and automate follow-up notification tasks.
3.19. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Bot/message automation—post automated duty/tax summaries in relevant channels upon workflow triggers.
3.20. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Automated email dispatcher—auto-email duty/tax details to involved parties after calculation.

Benefits

4.1. Automating compliance reduces penalties and manual workload.
4.2. Real-time, automated notifications enhance client communication.
4.3. Automation minimizes human errors and delays in customs processes.
4.4. Automated duty/tax calculation accelerates shipment clearance.
4.5. Automatedly updating for regulatory changes ensures up-to-date compliance.
4.6. Efficient automator workflows reduce bottlenecks across global freight operations.
4.7. Automation centralizes data, saving costs on manual processing.
4.8. Automated task orchestration improves transparency in logistics chains.
4.9. Automating integrations with ERP/accounting ensures fiscal accuracy.
4.10. End-to-end automatable routines free staff for strategic functions.