Meadow Foods tackles Brexit with Descartes e-Customs solution

Descartes Systems Group is supporting Meadow Foods, a UK-based supplier of dairy ingredients and inclusions to the food industry, with preparation for Brexit through deployment of its e-Customs solution.

Gary Marshall, IT Director, Meadow Foods, comments: “While there has been much uncertainty around Brexit and the implications that it will have on businesses, one thing we do know is that the number of mandatory customs declarations will increase.”

“As an organisation that regularly exports to Europe and Ireland, preparing ahead of time for an anticipated ten-fold increase in export customs entries was essential to ensure that we prevent any unnecessary supply chain hold-ups and thereby maintain our excellent customer relationships and reputation.”

He continues: “With such an increase to the expected volume of export entries, it became clear that it wouldn’t be efficient to continue with our previous manual process, nor did we want to lose control over the process by outsourcing to a third party.”

Another benefit to deploying the e-Customs solution, he adds, is its ability to interface with Meadow Foods’ ExportMaster ShipShape system, “offering us a way of streamlining the process in-house, saving both costs and time.”

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