A basic WMS facility is incorporated into Visual Warehousing, one of the modules of 'Customs Manager' (CM), for those customers that wish to combine bonded (Customs) warehousing with non-bonded warehousing within the same software package.

However, for freight forwarders not interested in bonded (Customs) warehousing that wish to combine a sophisticated WMS with their freight management system, then NetFreight is ideal, particularly as it is all web-based and therefore enables easy remote access for staff and clients. Also deliveries from the warehouse can automatically initiate a job within NetFreight.

NetFreight's warehousing facility is aimed at forwarders or 3rd Party Logistics (3PL) providers wishing to store goods for multiple clients at multiple warehouses with multiple zones, and provides stock visibility to clients and the facility for them to give delivery instructions to the forwarder or 3PL via the web, any time, anywhere and from any web-enabled device.

Customs Manager (CM) caters for bonded warehousing using the 'Visual CFSP' and 'Visual Warehousing' modules, validated extensively by 'Visual Classifier', which incorporates the full HM Customs Tariff. Eventually this function will be added to our new SQL-based Integrated Customs for Europe (ICE) software, which is gradually replacing CM.

Visual Warehousing stores stock at SKU level, whereas Visual CFSP can transmit SDIs and SDWs at SKU or Customs Commodity Number (CCN) level, providing optimum Customs Duty reporting.

For the agent's clients with their own WMS, Customs Manager provides a number of client 'downloads' to eliminate time-consuming data entry and transcription errors, which is especially useful for warehouse removals, and enables the software to be used for high volume declarations that would be impractical for manual data entry.

In addition to Customs warehousing, Customs Manager also caters for Enhanced Remote Transit Sheds (ERTS) within CCS-UK.

Excise reporting has been added to Visual Warehousing within Customs Manager (CM) so that it can cater for the Customs reporting for beers, wines and spirits, namely the W1 and W5 documents.

The old W8 has been replaced by the Excise Movement Control System (EMCS), that is now available within the Integrated Customs for Europe (ICE) software, which will eventually replace the Excise facilities within Visual Warehousing, along with all the other functions in that module and all other modules in Customs Manager.