Global trade is characterized by its extended workflows with complicated compliance and logistics processes, voluminous documentation and time-consuming paper handling, cumbersome and costly peer-to-peer messaging and multiple players from different disciplines. A typical export process in China for a single shipment may involve:
organizations engaged in global trade
sets of trade documents
different core work processes
persons engaged in the process
information or message exchanges
The exporter
Government agencies and authorities including customs, inspection and quarantine, tax and commerce, free and bonded trade zones, and ports and terminals
Logistics and other service providers including freight forwarding agents, customs brokers, warehouse operators, transportation carriers, cargo handlers, commercial banks, credit guarantee companies, trade insurance companies and others
Global trade a complex process involving extended workflows, voluminous documents and a great number of players
Organizations facing challenges as global trade ecosystem growing in size, complexity and cost
Convergence of disruptive technologies driving government and enterprises to invest in new technologies
Blockchain technology emerging with potential to enable organizations engaged in global trade to better collaborate