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Why Carrier Management Systems
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Reduce Customs Delays

Enabling your retailer customers to reduce customs delays and expedite clearance, without exposure to significant surcharges from Carriers.

Avoid Fines

Avoiding delays and fines for your retailer customers caused by customs non-compliance.

Provide DDP Solution

Enabling a cost transparent Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) solution, reducing cart abandonment and therefore maintaining the highest customer experience for your retailers that ensures brand loyalty and repeat orders.

Add Value

Enabling your business to deliver additional international value-add services to your retailer customer base.
CMS Benefits

Partnering with a CMS is of critical importance for Tier 1 & 2 retailers.

Some of the larger retailers are now choosing to spread their risk by working with more than one CMS. The solutions provided vary from CMS to CMS but typically include the provision of multiple delivery options, the management of orders in one place, printing shipping labels and transport documents, tracking notifications and various analytics.

As a result of the sector becoming more crowded, CMS are increasingly seeking to add functionality to their platforms, for example in the areas of returns, post-check out experience and enhancing their international offer.

SECTOR
PAIN POINTS

Ensuring that retailers can provide their end consumers with the best possible experience, regardless of whether the consumer is based in the home market or abroad.
The need for valid and verifiable data throughout the end-to-end supply chain and, particularly, at the customs entry point.
Customs friction and risk of the carrier imposing large surcharges for resolving customs data problems.
Incomplete data resulting in holding charges, the need for manual rectification and, ultimately, delays in the goods reaching the end consumer.
Inability to provide online retailers with the option to offer their customers a Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) solution.

Data compliance failings around regulatory events including Brexit, the EU’s abolition of the VAT threshold on low value items, the introduction of the Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS), the US STOP Act, Type86 clearance requirements and the Import Control System 2 (ICS2). 

HURRICANE
SOLUTIONS

Partnering with Hurricane will give a CMS a unique selling point in enabling it to support retailers with the required complete, accurate and valid data sets for global trade.

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WHAT OUR
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Scurri is one of the fastest growing CMS and a partner of Hurricane’s.

Rory O’Connor, CEO of Scurri, says:

“Our delivery management platform connects everything and everyone that is involved in getting orders from the retailer to the customer in a single platform.

“In every step of this journey technology plays a critical part. The adoption of Hurricane’s AI-driven, real-time solutions is a vital addition to our offering.

“Our customers depend on us to help them to scale, save money, improve efficiency, and deliver a better customer experience.

“In today’s cross-border eCommerce, having complete, accurate and compliant data is of critical importance in enabling us to meet these demands.”

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Whether you are ready to go global or want to grow in certain markets, Hurricane’s data technology can power your success.

Our solutions are acknowledged as best in class.

Why not put us to the test by arranging an introductory call / demo today.

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David SpoTtiswood
Co-founder

Interesting Fact: I am an amateur baker, but I still have no idea how sourduogh starter actually works, and am intrigued how it all reacts together to produce an incredible taste.

Favourite Music: November Rain by Guns ‘n’ Roses.  Going to Wembley with my wife our go to fun thing in our early years, our youth with long hair and rock clothing and not a care in the world other than getting the best spot in the house.

Favourite Quote: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results ” – Albert Einstein

Harry Reilly
Non-exec

Interesting Fact:  I learned Arabic for five years!.

Favourite Music:  A Long December by Counting Crows.  Memory of best family time together in California.

Favourite Quote: “Don’t forget execution, boys. It’s the all-important last 95%”

Tom Lee

Technical Director

Interesting Fact:  I am completely self-taught from a technical skills persepctiuve, and left formal education at 18.

Favourite Music:  Blink 182 – Aliens Exist.  Brings back fond memories of stickly floors and cheap beer.

Favourite Quote: “He sprayed water in my face – thta’s not allowed” – James Haskell.  The whole event surrounding it is hilarious and shows the power of a good wind up

Martin Palmer
Co-Founder

Interesting Fact: I started my working life training to be an accountant but decided I hated numbers. (Ironically I now love them!). I really wanted to join the Hong Kong Police force but couldn’t do that until i was 24. I took a temporary job in Imports and 47 years later here I am.

Favourite Music: There only was one choice. Harry Chapin. Meant a lot to me in my early years as an import broker. We played Chapin for hours and this one seemed to cover so many modes.

Favourite Quote: “No man is an island”

Neil Harmer

Operations Director

Interesting Fact:  As a Geologist my idea of the perfect beach holiday is going to the beach and investigating the rocks in the cliffs behind.

Favourite Music:  Broken Stones – Paul Weller, I’m a huge Paul Weller / The Jam fan; Broken Stones is a very relaxing song, I love the use of the electric piano in it

Favourite Quote: “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today”. This is a great quote by Benjamin Franklin, to have in your head when working through a series of tasks to help keep focused.

Robert Dundas
Sales Director

Interesting Fact:  One of my life goals is to be able to speak French, I’ve been doing Duolingo every day for the last five years, and I’m still rubbish! 

Favourite Music: Where do I even start! Tom Petty Running Down a Dream, this is my top-down driving next to the ocean song

Favourite Quote: “This time will pass”

ASHLEY DEXTER
CFO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: I was nearly named Battle Dexter (I would have probably now been residing in one of His Majesty’s establishments)

Favourite Music: Even though I spent a few years in the music industry my taste of music was always a cause for concern with my colleagues, so to surprise them all my current favourite is Kids by MGMT (absolute belter)

Favourite Quote: “Quitters never win and winners never quit”

Ian Venner
CTO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: Runs Red Lantern Records, a not-for-profit, ethical label as a side project, whose artists have regular national BBC radio airplay.

Favourite Music: Tom Waits, pretty much all of his work.  Beautifully observed avante-garde vignettes of life.  Oh, and anything really loud!

Favourite Quote: “It’s not the mountains we climb, but the grit in our shoe that grinds us down” – which sums up taking a business from start-up to enterprise.

Martyn Noble
CEO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: Played a high standard of semi-professional rugby union (too many years ago now!)

Favourite Music: Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven…my first live gig – Knebworth 11th August 1979, the track never grows old and is the iconic song of ‘hope’ whatever mood you are in when listening too it…and I’m still trying to work out what the lyrics mean!!

Favourite Quote: “Know your customers, Know your People, Know your Numbers” – plagiarised from Sir John Harvey Jones when I met him very early on in my career and values I stick to in my business life.