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Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ

Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ is a managed service that leverages a serverless architecture on AWS to capture, classify, extract, and enrich data from paper-based certificates of origin. The service streamlines the processing of certificates of origin, improves data accuracy, and ensures compliance with international trade regulations.

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Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ is a game-changing managed service that simplifies and automates the processing of certificates of origin. By leveraging AWS's serverless architecture, Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ intelligently captures, classifies, extracts, and enriches data from paper-based certificates of origin, reducing manual effort, improving accuracy, and ensuring compliance with international trade regulations. With Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ, organizations can streamline their trade compliance operations, minimize errors, and make informed decisions based on accurate and timely data.

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What we offer ?

Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ is a managed service that automates the processing of paper-based certificates of origin, extracting and enriching data using AWS's serverless architecture.

For Who ?

The service is designed for organizations involved in international trade, including exporters, importers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers, who deal with certificates of origin and require efficient and accurate processing for trade compliance.

Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ utilizes AWS services such as Amazon Textract, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon A2I, AWS Lambda, and Amazon S3 to capture, classify, extract, and enrich data from certificates of origin. The service provides a user-friendly interface for certificate upload, review, and validation.

How do we Leverage AWS ?

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Financial Benefits

  • Reduced labor costs associated with manual certificate of origin processing

  • Minimized risk of penalties and fines due to non-compliance or inaccurate origin declarations

  • Optimized duty payments through accurate tariff classifications and preferential treatment claims

  • Faster customs clearance and reduced border delays

  • Scalable and cost-effective solution with pay-as-you-go pricing

Operational Benefits

  • Automated certificate of origin processing, reducing manual effort and errors

  • Improved data accuracy and consistency

  • Streamlined trade compliance processes

  • Enhanced visibility into origin information and preferential treatment eligibility

  • Improved compliance with international trade regulations and free trade agreements

Benefits of the Cloud Adoption Framework

By integrating Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ with the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, organizations can realize significant benefits across various perspectives, including streamlined trade compliance, reduced compliance risks, enhanced productivity, improved governance, scalability, security, and simplified operations. This integration empowers organizations to optimize their certificate of origin processing, make data-driven decisions, and achieve operational excellence in international trade.

Business Perspective

  • Streamlined trade compliance: Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ streamlines the processing of certificates of origin, reducing manual effort, minimizing errors, and improving efficiency, enabling organizations to optimize their trade compliance processes and focus on core business activities.

  • Reduced compliance risks: By automating the processing and validation of certificates of origin, Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ helps organizations reduce the risk of non-compliance with international trade regulations and avoid potential penalties or delays.
    Improved trade partner relationships: With accurate and timely processing of certificates of origin,

  • Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ enables organizations to enhance their relationships with trade partners, facilitating smoother cross-border transactions and building trust.

People Perspective

  • Enhanced productivity: Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ automates repetitive tasks associated with certificate of origin processing, freeing up employees to focus on higher-value activities and strategic initiatives.

  • Skill development: Integrating Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ with the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework provides opportunities for employees to develop new skills in cloud computing, data analysis, and trade compliance.

  • Collaborative workflow: The centralized certificate of origin management and data accessibility enabled by Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ foster collaboration among teams involved in trade compliance, such as logistics, customs, and legal departments.

Governance Perspective

  • Regulatory compliance: Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ helps organizations comply with international trade regulations and free trade agreements by providing accurate and auditable certificate of origin data.

  • Data governance: The service enables better data governance through structured and consistent certificate of origin data capture, storage, and management, ensuring data integrity and facilitating effective data management practices.

  • Audit readiness: With automated certificate of origin processing and data management, Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ enhances audit readiness by providing easily accessible and traceable records of trade transactions.

Platform Perspective

  • Scalability and flexibility: Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ leverages AWS's serverless architecture, allowing organizations to easily scale their certificate of origin processing capabilities based on fluctuating trade volumes and business requirements.

  • Reliability and availability: The service ensures high availability and reliability by leveraging AWS's robust infrastructure and fault-tolerant design, minimizing downtime and ensuring uninterrupted certificate of origin processing.

  • Integration capabilities: Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ can seamlessly integrate with other AWS services and third-party applications, such as global trade management systems or enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, enabling end-to-end trade compliance workflows.

Security Perspective

  • Data protection: Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ incorporates AWS security best practices, including encryption, access control, and secure data storage, to protect sensitive certificate of origin information and ensure data confidentiality.

  • Secure access management: The service leverages AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to enforce granular access controls and authenticate users, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access and modify certificate of origin data.

  • Compliance with industry standards: By aligning with AWS's compliance programs and certifications, such as ISO 27001 and SOC, Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ helps organizations meet industry-specific security and compliance requirements.

Operation Perspective

  • Simplified operations: As a managed service, Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ simplifies certificate of origin processing operations by abstracting away infrastructure management complexities and providing automated workflows.

  • Proactive monitoring and logging: The service integrates with Amazon CloudWatch for comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting, enabling proactive issue detection and resolution.

  • Continuous improvement: Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ benefits from AWS's continuous innovation and updates, ensuring access to the latest features, performance enhancements, and best practices in certificate of origin processing.

Leveraging AWS Well-Architected Framework

By leveraging these AWS products and services across the Well-Architected Framework pillars, Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ can capture, classify, extract, validate, and enrich data from certificates of origin in a serverless architecture that is operationally excellent, secure, reliable, performance-efficient, and cost-optimized. The combination of these services enables the automation and optimization of certificate of origin processing workflows while ensuring compliance with best practices and industry standards.

Operational Excellence Pillar

  • AWS Lambda: Serverless compute service for executing code without provisioning or managing servers, enabling efficient and scalable certificate of origin processing.

  • Amazon CloudWatch: Monitoring and observability service for real-time monitoring, logging, and alerting of Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ resources and performance metrics.

  • AWS CloudFormation: Infrastructure as code (IaC) service for automating the deployment and management of Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ resources in a consistent and repeatable manner.

  • AWS Step Functions: Serverless workflow orchestration service for coordinating and automating the different stages of certificate of origin processing, including data capture, classification, extraction, validation, and enrichment.

  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): Service for securely managing access to AWS resources and controlling permissions for Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ components.

  • Amazon Cognito: User authentication and authorization service for securely managing user access to the Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ application.

  • AWS Key Management Service (KMS): Managed service for creating and controlling encryption keys used to encrypt sensitive certificate of origin data at rest.

  • AWS Certificate Manager (ACM): Service for provisioning, managing, and deploying SSL/TLS certificates for secure communication between Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ components and users.

Security Pillar

Reliability Pillar

  • Amazon S3: Highly durable and scalable object storage service for storing and retrieving certificates of origin and processed data.

  • AWS Lambda: Serverless compute service designed for high availability and fault tolerance, ensuring reliable execution of certificate of origin processing tasks.

  • Amazon DynamoDB: Serverless NoSQL database service for storing and retrieving metadata and processed certificate of origin data with high availability and durability.

  • Amazon SQS: Fully managed message queuing service for decoupling and ensuring reliable communication between Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ components.

  • Amazon Textract: Fully managed service that uses machine learning to automatically extract text, handwriting, and data from scanned certificates of origin.

  • Amazon Comprehend: Natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to uncover insights and relationships in certificate of origin data.

  • Amazon Elasticsearch Service: Fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling Elasticsearch clusters, enabling fast search and analytics on processed certificate of origin data.

  • AWS Lambda: Serverless compute service that automatically scales based on incoming requests, ensuring optimal performance and efficiency.

  • Amazon API Gateway: Fully managed service for creating, publishing, and securing APIs, enabling seamless integration with other systems and applications.

  • Amazon Augmented AI (A2I): Human review service that brings human judgment into the document processing workflow to validate and improve the accuracy of machine learning predictions. A2I can be used to review and validate the extracted data, classifications, and enrichments performed by Smart.Business.ID IQ, ensuring high-quality results and building trust in the automated process.

Performance Efficiency Pillar

Cost Optimization
Pillar

  • AWS Lambda: Pay-as-you-go pricing model, where you only pay for the compute time consumed during certificate of origin processing, optimizing costs.

  • Amazon S3: Cost-effective storage option with pricing based on the amount of data stored, access requests, and data transfer.

  • Amazon DynamoDB: On-demand capacity mode for automatic scaling and pay-per-request pricing, optimizing costs based on usage.

  • AWS Cost Explorer: Cost management tool for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing costs associated with Smart.Certificate.Origin IQ resources.

  • AWS Budgets: Service for setting custom budgets and receiving alerts when forecasted or actual costs exceed defined thresholds.

  • AWS Lambda: Promotes sustainability by efficiently allocating compute resources and reducing energy consumption.

  • Amazon S3: Stores data in shared, multi-tenant hardware, optimizing resource utilization.

  • Amazon DynamoDB: Provides a serverless database that automatically scales capacity, minimizing over-provisioning and reducing energy waste.

  • AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool: Helps measure, track, and reduce the carbon emissions associated with using AWS services.

  • Implement efficient data storage practices, such as using Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering, which automatically moves data between access tiers based on usage patterns, optimizing storage costs and reducing the storage footprint.

  • Take advantage of AWS's commitment to renewable energy by running on AWS regions that have a higher percentage of renewable energy mix.

Sustainability Pillar

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