Take Control of Your Customs
Readyset: Your In-House Customs Specialists
Most businesses believe that by outsourcing their declarations to an agent, they are also outsourcing the risk. The reality? You pay a middleman for every entry, yet you remain 100% legally liable for their mistakes.
Stop paying for outsourced errors. In-house customs gives your business total compliance control alongside significant cost savings, and it’s easier than you think.
The Problem With Outsourcing
Outsourcing may seem like the best option for your customs declarations, but many companies simply don’t see the risk associated with it. Lack of visibility, compliance and cost transparency, as well as lack of required qualifications for UK customs brokers.
Lack of Cost Transparency
An invoice with no references, a monthly bulk invoice with little backup, and dubious port charges - anyone who has outsourced their customs declarations will be familiar.
Bringing your customs in-house means you cut out the middleman, and the costs associated with them.
No Compliance Control
Sick of the documentation scramble when HMRC come calling from an audit, and waiting days for your customs agent to get it all together? Even before you have checked the accuracy of the declarations, you are already on the backfoot.
When your customs it outsourced, the fact is you have no control over your supply chain compliance.
Lack of Visibility
Using multiple suppliers in your supply chain is a requirement, but it causes issues. When your shipment is subject to demurrage, the blame game between suppliers starts, and you don’t know who to believe.
When your forwarder states customs delays as the reason for your demurrage invoice, there is little you can do to challenge it.
Unknown Skill Level
In the UK, there are no requirements for a customs declarant to hold any form of training or certification. This means that you are completely reliant on your agent for employing and training their agents to a competent standard.
Post-Brexit, many brokers and forwarders have provided inadequate training for their staff, due to the huge increase in staffing requirements.
The In-House Advantage
Cost Savings
Bringing your customs in-house cuts down on your supply chain costs. You cut out the middleman, meaning you have direct relationships with the ports, customs software systems and CDS system.
Most importantly, your business is saved from ever increasing and unclear customs clearance charges.
Full Compliance Control
In-house declarations mean in-house compliance. You can monitor and track declaration accuracy, and supply chain accuracy, meaning that when HMRC come calling, you are prepared, ready, and no longer on the backfoot.
Full Visibility
Controlling your customs and compliance means full visibility of what is being declared to HMRC, alongside easy access to documentation and reporting for compliance management and HMRC audits.
Expert Management
You aren’t on your own. Readyset have flexible monitoring packages to ensure your in-house management is being done correctly and compliantly. From light support to more hands-on management, we ensure the in-house switch is done and managed in the right way.
Our Roadmap
Gap Analysis Audit
We analyse your current volumes, suppliers, and processes to provide feedback on improvement points, and the feasibility of bringing your customs in-house.
Business Plan and Setup
We design and develop a detailed business plan, showing the financial savings, compliance benefits, and a detailed timeline of requirements and steps from beginning to end.
Training and Implementation
We ensure your staff have full compliance and operational training to be able to manage not just customs declarations, but your business compliance. We implement SOPs, detailed training courses and software system training to make sure your business can operate independently.
Go-Live and Monitoring
Only when your business is full ready and trained do we push the button to go live with your declarations. But, it doesn’t end there. Readyset are on call to manage any day-to-day operational issues 24/7, as well as monitoring compliance, so you can be confident your business is not just operating independently, but being fully compliant while doing so.
Let’s build your roadmap to independence and control.
Book an introductory call with us today to start your road to full customs control.