Zephyr
Matching Engine
The world’s leading HS6 matching and data enhancement engine trusted by customers globally, is now an integral part of Kona v2.
What is it?
Hurricane takes a new approach to a real-world problem, enabling the efficient checking and completion of cross-border shipment pre-advice submitted to authorities by customers such as retailers and marketplaces.
Among Kona’s many use cases are the checking, and providing complete data for pre-advice and customs declarations submitted from retailers/supply chain partners and fast bulk assignment of HS codes to inventory or manifest data.
What does it do?
The Zephyr Matching Engine provides the following features:
Data
Validation
Checks that the HS6 code and description are validated. If not, returns a status code indicating where the issue is.
Customs
Clearance
Provides suitable customs clearance information including a valid description, most likely HS6 and 8- and 10-digit export and import codes.
Data Checks
Flags bad descriptions such as gift, goods, sample, clothing, footwear etc. Also analyses the goods description to see if it is of good enough quality.
Why do you need it?
Success in global trade depends on the quality and accuracy if your data.
Increasingly tough regulations mean that your shipments require complete and accurate data sets including product descriptions and HS codes.
The sheer volume of parcels moving cross-border mean that vertical AI data solutions, rather than manual processes, are the only way to achieve true scale.
Key
Features
- A key and integral part of Kona
- Lightning fast with return times of 150 milliseconds
- Multi-lingual
- Multi-currency
- Covers the WCO’s Harmonized System 2022 (HS2022) updated codes, as well as 2017, 2012 etc
Key
Benefits
- Improves data accuracy from as little as 20% to over 90%
- Ensures shipments have the right data for seamless cross-border trade
- Reduces the volume of parcels held / refused by customs
- Avoids extra costs for retailers / marketplaces
- Improves customer experience and loyalty
What our
customers say
Some of the UK’s biggest online retailers, handling high volumes of cross-border transactions, were experiencing severe issues with shipments being held at customs due to poor data.
By integrating Hurricane’s data enhancement solution, our customer, logistics specialist Pro Carrier, was able to reduce the volume of parcels held at customs from over 30% in peak 2021 to less than 0.5% in peak 2022.
Pro Carrier said:
“The provision of clean and accurate AI-driven data by Hurricane gives retailers and their customers the confidence and assurance that their products will arrive on time.”
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