What is ACA?

Advanced Cargo Analysis (ACA) is a risk assessment solution for government agencies and trading organizations. It assesses the risks of international shipments based on trading documents (customs declarations, cargo manifests bill-of-lading and airwaybill) and additional external and historical data. Based on the risk assessment, ACA identifies cargo that may be dangerous, illegal or otherwise requiring an inspection - before it arrives at the destination port. This improves border security and reduces the opportunity for fraud and smuggling. Depending on the risk, containment or inspection actions are taken. The ACA asset performs this risk assessment in near real time, and produces advice for follow on actions.

ACA handles the workflow towards a rules engine (IBM ODM) and provide an extensive user interface to support the end user to make an informed decision. The asset went into production in June 2020 and can be deployed on-premises as well as on-cloud.

Features

• Automatically assess declaration, bill of lading and airwaybill documents
• Enrichment with historical trader information
• Registration of inspection results to support continuous improvement
• Maintain internal and external watch lists
• Matching of traders against reference data based on Natural Language Processing
• Browser Based User Interface to support manual decisions with build-in task list
• Optional integration with BPM engines for external workflows
• WCO based Data Repository
• Basic rules set with risk profiles that can be extended by client’s experts
• Maintain risk profiles using standard ODM tooling
• Administration for default control instructions, out channels, watch list, trader reconciliation.

Benefits

• **Separation of Responsibilities: **Inspection decision and execution are separated, which makes the inspection staff less likely to be exposed to attempts to be bribed.
• **Increased inspection hit-rate: **The rule based systems usually doubles the hit-rate of the inspection staff, allowing either reduction of staff or increase of security.
• **Informed traders: **Traders can be informed in advance, allowing them to better plan their cargo handling.
• **Roadmap: **A roadmap for continuous improvement allowing to extend with machine learning models and usage of additional data sources.