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OPINION than 1,300 importer accounts, more than 800 broker accounts, and nearly 11,000 carrier accounts. It is one of the largest assured delivery networks in the world, processing close to 6.5 million transactions per day. To date, more than $14bn in duties and fees have been collected through the ACE monthly statement process since the first payment was made in July 2004. The ACE solution for truck release at U.S. land borders has been deployed to all 99 U.S. land border ports. Ultimately, ACE will provide a multi-modal manifest (land, air, rail, and sea) capability—allowing importers, exporters, and transportation providers to eventually use one system, ACE, to move goods across U.S. borders. Since the initial launch of ACE capabilities to select Customs and Border Protection personnel in 2002, the program has implemented eight major functional releases, deploying new capabilities to reduce processing time and improve access to information for Customs and Border Protection personnel, the trade community, and other participating government agencies. ACE has created, and continues to drive, a more transparent supply chain, allowing officials to determine if goods are safe—or may require screening—before they ever reach our shores. The program’s success has resulted in improved mission effectiveness, security, sustainability, and productivity, moving goods to market faster with positive impacts on U.S., Mexican, and Canadian economies, benefiting consumers and business alike. The technology also enables increased data sharing and integrated on-line access. Sharing ACE Capabilities to Improve Information Sharing on a Global Scale The ACE program has developed a way to help other agencies to improve information sharing through an initiative called the International Trade Data System (ITDS). The goal of ITDS is to implement a secure, integrated, government-wide system to meet private and federal requirements for the electronic collection, use, and dissemination of standard trade and transportation data. ITDS enhances the ability of Customs and Border Protection and other agencies to target high-risk cargo, persons and conveyances, and extends the capabilities of ACE by bringing together critical security, public health, public safety and environmental protection agencies through a common platform. ACE and ITDS comprise a single system that allows private sector entities to report data once, using a single, harmonized data set, to agencies making admissibility decisions and collecting non-public data and statistics. The ITDS “single-window” will provide for a single electronic filing rather than separate filings to multiple agencies. ITDS will help the government provide international trade data that are more accurate, complete and timely. Most importantly, it will also enhance federal agencies’ ability to target high-risk cargo, persons and conveyances. This “singlewindow” can eliminate redundant filings, ACE by 2009 for all agencies that collect information to clear or license the import or export of cargo. This will allow ACE/ITDS to serve as a custodian of records on international trade transactions, providing federal agencies with a convenient, single point of access to data on trade transactions, with each agency having its own, role-based level of access. Blueprint for More Effective Global Movement Management Society feels that global movement systems should be like water, electricity and other utilities: People simply expect them to work and to be available on demand. When they fail, consequences are rapid, Society feels that global movement systems should be like water, electricity and other utilities: People simply expect them to work and to be available on demand. When they fail, consequences are rapid, widespread and significant. enable agencies to work collaboratively, and by incorporating international reporting standards, facilitate data sharing and enforcement cooperation among governments. It will reduce the burden on business and increase the efficiency of the government’s collection of international trade transaction data by substituting standard electronic messages for the redundant reporting—often on paper forms—that occurs today. Ultimately, ACE has the potential to integrate data collection and support operations for more than 100 federal entities. To date, agency participation in ITDS has been uneven, but several new agencies joined ITDS after the SAFE Port Act became law in October 2006. The act, mandated by Congress, requires all agencies that need documentation for the clearing or licensing for the importation or exportation of cargo to participate in ITDS. In September 2007, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo requiring mandatory integration into widespread and significant. There is no doubt that achieving the goal of a more efficient, secure and resilient global movement system is a challenge with profound economic, human, technological and governmental implications. In fact, the health and well-being of our society depends on highly integrated, complex economic systems that serve to move people, cargo, conveyances, money and information around the world every day. Successful public-private partnerships and strategies like ACE and ITDS show that the large and complex programs can be implemented with governance structures that involve the private sector and government working together to create cost-effective and highly reliable systems that improve mission effectiveness, security and resilience while improving commerce. To access this article online, visit The Digital Edition at www.SupplyChainBrain.com. www.SupplyChainBrain.com GLOBAL LOGISTICS & SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES 55 http://www.SupplyChainBrain.com http://www.SupplyChainBrain.com

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