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dbh Logistics IT AG
Key Competences and Overview
Customs & Foreign Trade
Solutions for Customs Clearance in Europe
Compliance & Risk Management
Solutions for Security with Trade RelationsSAP Software Extensions
SAP Solutions for Customs and Compliance
Dispatch Handling
Solutions for Dispatch Proccessing
Forwarding & Transport Management
Solutions for Forwarding and LogisticsPort Industry
Solutions for European Seaports and Inland Ports
IT Services
dbh‘s Cloud Service
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About Us, the dbh Logistics IT AG
We are on of the leading service providers for software and support in the subject areas of customs and foreign trade, compliance, transport management, port operation, and SAP. With more than 40 years of experience, we develop busi-ness solutions for industry and trade, forwarding and logistics, as well as for shipping and ports.
The portfolio ranges from consultation, conception and implementation to host-ing and support. In the data centres in Bremen, we operate individual applications as well as complex IT infrastructures and SAP systems.
Figures, Data and Facts
dbh was founded in 1973.The company employs about 165 members of staff all over Germany.
The company-owned data centres process nearly 6 million data files every month. dbh operates in national and international committees, associations and clubs, therefore, the company is actively involved in current industry related issues.
Over 2,400 customers use our solutions.
Our competent and technically qualified support staff solve 66% of all cases over the helpline.
Security and availability are of utmost priority to us – TIER III classification.
Our data centres play their part in environmental protection through calculated resource management.
Experts in Logistics IT
Customs & Foreign Trade
Customs Clearance
Advantage Customs is the solution for efficient customs clearance. Certified for all ATLAS procedures and tried and tested in practice over many years. Further- more, all current European customs systems are connected. Additionally, numer-ous comfort functions facilitate the national and international customs clearance with Advantage Customs.
Main focus of the conception was a quick, reliable and safe customs clearance. Another focus was the ease of operation.
EU Pre-Declaration
With Advantage Pre-Declaration we provide a user-friendly solution to create and send entry and exit summary declarations in the required country specific format.
As a stand-alone solution or integrated, our solutions suit perfectly in your IT environment.
Our solutions follow a modular structure: you only pay for the solution that you really need. All the modules work perfectly in harmony with each other.
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Supplier’s Declarations, Preference Calculation and Origin of Goods
The correct origin identification of goods in the issuance of preference docu-ments is of increasing importance for international operating companies. If you calculate preferences, you are legally obliged to carry out a complete proof of the preference-eligible origin in the form of supplier’s declarations on merchan-dise and many processing rules.With Advantage Preference, we put the right tool in your hands, in order to easi-ly manage supplier’s declarations, identify goods origins and calculate preferenc-es profpreferenc-essionally.
AEO Consulting
dbh is AEO certified itself and can advise you with years of experience on the anal-ysis, planning and execution of your individual AEO certification.
Automate processes, avoid multiple entries and reduce the number of errors. Good reasons to choose our solutions!
Sanctions list screening is obligatory for every type of contract – along with trade contracts, this also affects work contracts and all other types of contract in domestic business.
Basis of the customs tariff for the EU and therefore the tariff classification is the harmonised system (HS nomenclature).
Security and Legally Compliant Trading
The issues of security and legally compliant trading play an increasingly impor-tant role in national and international trade. With Advantage Compliance, you receive software for secure and convenient risk management that is easy to inte-grate into your logistics processes.
Advantage Compliance consists of the modules Sanctions List Screening, Tariff Classification, and Export Control.
Sanctions List Screening
Screening of your business contacts is completed within seconds. The module Sanctions List Screening, also known as Sanctioned Party List (SPL) Screening, matches the verification mechanism to your requirements exactly. In a web cli-ent, synchronously upon entry, or as a regular batch processing task.
Tariff Classification
The module is designed to reduce time and effort spent on classification of goods. Furthermore, Tariff Classification is used for the sustainable documenta-tion of correctly identified customs tariff numbers.
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For commercial trans- actions and brokerage enterprises you must also check to see if the supply of goods, technology or software to other countries is subject to approval.
Export Control
At the touch of a button the Export Control module provides information for individual articles or complete export consignments. This includes compulsory approvals in accordance with dual-use-regulations, prohibitions and restrictions, TARIC codes and US re-export controls.
A sanction and embargo list check completes the module. In addition, it is an aid when checking goods according to their end use.
Up-To-Date Content
The dbh software Advantage Compliance obtains up-to-date Federal Gazette (Bundesanzeiger) content to level the path to a conformable compliance management.
SAP Software Extensions
As an SAP Service Partner
we offer solutions and services, with which you can easily add other functions relating to foreign trade and customs to your SAP system.
Software Extensions
Import and Export of Goods
With the ATLAS Export/AES and ATLAS Import plug-ins, you can automate elec-tronic clearance of exports and imports.
Document Monitoring
Create your customary-relevant documents (for example EUR1, certificate of origin, etc.) with free text indications. In addition, you can control messages and monitor and print documents concerning the customary processes.
Origin of Goods and Preferences
The Origin of Goods and Preferences plug-ins allow monitoring of incoming and outgoing supplier’s declarations and creation of working folders to transfer to Advantage Preference. Status messages are displayed in your SAP ERP.
Sanctions List Screening
Easily check your business contacts against existing sanctions lists with the Compliance plug-in. Extensive master data batch checks in the area of SAP-HR and other specialist field areas are also possible.
Expand your SAP system with new functions.
Avoid purchasing extra hardware and software.
Use the centrally available data from SAP for further processes.
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Tariff Classification
With the Tariff Classification plug-in, you can automatically monitor and transfer materials to comfortably determine correct customs tariff numbers. In addition, modifications of the content are automatically considered in Advantage Compliance.
Export Control
Using the Export Control plug-in, business objects - like SD assignments or MM orders - are synchronously and asynchronously checked and locked, if necessary. Follow-up functions can be avoided.
Entry Certificate/VAT ID Inspection
Create your Entry Certificate with an appropriate plug-in directly out of SAP. For automatic VAT ID Inspection of your trading partners, the software extension compares data saved in SAP with data registered as company data of the corresponding EU member states.
EMCS
The EMCS plug-in for SAP allows you to process transport of goods subject to excise duty. Ranging from manual entry to completely automated processing.
dbh‘s SAP consultants are ready to assist you with optimising customs and logistics processes.
Dispatch Handling
Flexible and Transparent - the dbh Delivery System
Easily manage the large number of process steps of dispatch handling and interlink all involved parties without any great effort.
As a connector between merchandise management, warehouse management, transport service providers, and customs clearance, Advantage Delivery increas-es efficiency and transparency in shipments.
The software, which provides interfaces to all courier, express, and parcel ser-vices, is fully integrable in your logistic business processes. Advantage Delivery adopts shipment data from previous systems, prints shipment label and loading lists, and offers a wide range of further functions.
The process controls the software: Advantage Delivery adapts to the workflow in your company.
Automated customs decla- ration: Advantage Delivery has an interface to the dbh customs software Advantage Customs.
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Fast, Efficient, Economic and Global
These are the requirements on logistics service providers nowadays. The result: in order to remain competitive, rationalised and automated processes must be created and a transparent communication flow must be established.
Forwarding and Transport Management
CARGO ONLINE is an established complete solution for modern forwarding and transport management. The following modules are available according to requirements:
Air – solution for air freight forwarders
Sea – software package for cargo agents
Land – solution for land transport
Warehouse – warehouse management and information for logistics service providers
ATLAS – integrated customs clearance for forwarding and logistics
Save time and avoid errors. Data is recorded centrally one time only and available for use in further processes.
Automate order entry, document creation, calculations, information exchange, invoicing and much more.
Add further modules such as Compliance, CRM, e-files, Track&Trace, Business Intelligence and much more.
Solutions for European Seaports
and Inland Ports
Established Partner of the Port Industry
In 1973 our Bremer Hafentelematik system went into operation as the central communication platform for the ports of Bremen, Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven. Our solution for the JadeWeserPort followed with the Wilhelmshaven Telematik at a later time. Both systems allow entry and processing of incoming and out-ward shipments and consignments of goods.
Nowadays, our software solutions meet the special requirements of the different business partners in sea and inland ports.
Our customers come from different fields of the logistics sector: Sea and inland ports
Terminal operators
Companies for cargo handling and warehousing Railway operators
Shipowners and carriers
Whether port authority, container logistics, cargo handling, or organisation of hinterland traffics, optimise your logistics processes with our software products and simplify the data transfer with your partners.
All parties profit from having the information available in just one place, centrally recorded and used by further systems. As a partner of different
in-ternational projects we are active on the development of ports.
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The dbh Port Community System (PCS)
The central information system with comprehensive functions to interlink different data processing systems of port industry and authorities.
Advantage Local Port Order (ALPO) – Electronic port orders with connection to customs for German sea ports and sea ports of the north-west-range Business Integration Platform (BIP) / Bremer Hafentelematik (BHT) – Import
and export processing for ship owners, terminals, and freight forwarders in conformity with customs law
Business Information & Tracking (BIT) – Optimisation of truck transports as well as status information for container
Further Software Products and Services
CODIS 2.0 – Dispatch and handling of rail cargoDACOM – Central electronic declaration of dangerous goods and stock overview BREPOS – Port authority system to fulfill administrative tasks in the sea port ANSW – „National Single Window“ authority notifications for ship calls
in sea ports
ACFS – Order processing for container packing stations and cargo handling companies
dbh portos – Standard software for sea and inland ports consisting of the modules harbour master, warehousing, terminal, rail and video gate
The software products for port industry are compatible with the dbh solutions for customs, foreign trade, and trans-port management. dbh’s own data centres
ensure secure hosting. Our logistics experts offer
software development, project implementation, and consultation for the inter-/national port industry.
Into the Cloud with dbh
Similar to the trend to allocate logistics to specialised service providers (key-words: outsourcing & contract logistics) – and thereby use synergy and scale effects – the tendency of outsourcing IT follows the usage of so-called cloud solutions. Simply put, the software is provided by one or more specialised data centres.
This service is offered by dbh as Advantage Hosting, using our company-owned high-performance data centres. Beside dbh-software, e.g., Advantage Customs for customs clearing, or the transport management system CARGO ONLINE, dbh takes over operation of your complete IT, if requested.
Flexible and fast – Reduce time to market
Secure and up to date – Proven IT security and technically state-of-the-art Economical and competitively viable – transparent cost control and
always prepared
dbh’s experts with deep knowledge in IT and logis-tics ensure – next to high availability, data security including protection against unauthorised access – premium consultation and support.
The German data centres, inter alia, at the head-quarters in Bremen, meet the highest requirements regarding performance and security.
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Your Satisfaction –
Our Services
Choose dbh!
We offer support customised to your requirements, from the initial enquiry up to trouble free live operation.
Years of experience in logistics, complex customs and port processing as well as SAP.
Established products and over 2,400 customers from small businesses to large enterprises.
Software purchasing, leasing or on demand – the right business model for everyone.
We can provide full project execution through to the training of your staff. Conversion of all data formats for a smooth exchange of information. Legally compliant and archiving conforming to GDPdU.
Competent and technically qualified support staff – solve high numbers of cases right on the helpline.
Maintenance and support round the clock. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year!
We supply the expert knowledge of our qualified and experienced staff.
We combine IT know-how with the industry require- ments of trade and industry, transport and logistics, shipping and ports.
We advise you on process and system optimisation, up to full integration and solution conception.
CONTACT US!
Tel. +49 421 30902-700 Mail [email protected]
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