SmartLink provides a global customs clearance platform that automates filing and ensures compliance with international regulations. Their SmartLink solution simplifies logistics and shipping management through booking, instruction, and tracking services, helping freight forwarders and shippers navigate complex customs processes.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Global trade relies on complex data exchange between numerous parties, often leading to data silos, manual processes, and a lack of real-time visibility. This fragmented information flow increases the risk of errors, delays, and compliance issues, particularly in customs filing and shipment tracking.
Solution
SmartLink offers a cloud-based integrated platform as a service (iPaaS) designed to streamline logistics data integration, customs filing, and shipment visibility. The platform connects logistics stakeholders, including freight forwarders, logistics service providers, and ocean carriers, enabling real-time data sharing and process automation. SmartLink's integration service supports various data standards and formats, such as EDIFACT, ANSI X12, JSON, and XML, and offers pre-built connectors and a data migration tool for seamless integration with existing systems. The customs filing service automates global customs security filings, ensuring compliance with regulations in the United States, Canada, Japan, the EU, and Korea. The visibility service provides real-time shipment tracking and vessel monitoring, leveraging data from over 70 shipping companies and AIS data from terrestrial and satellite sources.
Target Audience
SmartLink targets freight forwarders, logistics service providers, ocean carriers, and container terminals seeking to streamline data integration, automate customs filing, and enhance shipment visibility.
Features
- Cloud-based platform with a web-embedded tool for development and operations accessible from anywhere
- Pre-built connectors and universal adapters for integrating various applications and protocols
- Business process automation tools for extracting data from PDF files, analyzing data structures, and transforming data into any format
- Real-time shipment tracking with event-driven push notifications and a unified platform for 98% of global ocean freight
- Vessel tracking with real-time AIS data, route ETA, and ship information
- API platform for creating, publishing, and managing APIs with security protocols like OAuth and JWT
- Customs filing service covering AMS, ISF, AFR, ENS/EXS, KAMS, and ACI
- EDI asset management tool for managing communication, transformation, partner, and message specifications by version
- Data Learning Bot function to measure similarity with existing EDI assets and extract the most similar cases
- Microservices architecture implemented on a container basis with CI/CD technology for agility and flexibility