Mercury Marine Revs Up St. Louis Foreign-Trade Zone With Amber Road FTZ Solution
19 Novembre 2015 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Engine manufacturer increases productivity and
inventory control
Amber Road (NYSE: AMBR), a leading provider of global trade
management (GTM) solutions, today announced that Mercury Marine, a
leading marine engine manufacturer, is using Amber Road’s
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) software to manage its FTZ operations at
its new distribution center in St. Louis.
Mercury Marine, founded in 1939, is a $2.2 billion division of
Brunswick Corp. of Lake Forest, Ill., and the leading marine engine
manufacturer in the world. Headquartered in Fond du Lac, Wis.,
Mercury Marine provides marine engines for private, commercial and
government sales.
Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) and free trade agreements (FTA) offer
the most direct and significant duty and tariff reduction
opportunities for importers and exporters, according to an April
2014 Aberdeen Group study. In fact, 57 percent of companies
surveyed in the report have, or will build, FTZ infrastructure into
their business to support global transformation and reduce total
landed costs. Automating FTZ operations is the best way to ensure
compliance with government regulations and save costs.
“We needed an easy way to support our quick turnaround times,
manage the FTZ process and provide inventory visibility and
tracking,” said Melanie Rohde, FTZ manager at Mercury Marine.
“Choosing software over a broker, an in-house solution or
error-prone manual processes was an easy decision.”
FTZs can be manually intensive, requiring complex programs to
administer electronic integration with multiple government
agencies, warehouse management systems, and trading partners,
including customs brokers and carriers.
“If there was no software solution, we would have foregone an
FTZ as brokerage costs, we believe, are too high. Ultimately, using
Amber Road’s solution is less expensive and more efficient than
using a broker,” said Rohde. Mercury Marine selected Amber Road’s
FTZ solution because of its combination of flexibility, simplicity
and powerfulness.
By enabling companies to take a holistic, integrated approach to
their bonded warehousing and FTZ operations, Amber Road’s FTZ
solution can lower importing costs, enhance inventory control and
improve supply chain velocity.
“We need to get inventory in-and-out quickly, and required a
simple solution with a rapid implementation. Some solutions were
too complex or not relevant to a distribution zone,” said Rohde.
“We were looking for a robust, simple solution that can be easily
used with minimal training.”
Mercury Marine has already reaped benefits from using the
software, including increased productivity and repeatable processes
for better managing the distribution center, added Rohde.
“FTZs are an excellent way for companies to add to their bottom
line. Too often, however, companies don’t take advantage of this
opportunity due to the complicated nature of managing the process,”
said Anthony Hardenburgh, vice president, global trade content at
Amber Road. “We are pleased Amber Road’s FTZ solution can help
Mercury Marine maximize its profits, increase productivity and
reduce the complexities associated with using an FTZ.”
About Amber Road
Amber Road’s (NYSE: AMBR) mission is to improve the way
companies manage their international supply chains and conduct
global trade. As a leading provider of cloud based global trade
management (GTM) solutions, we automate the global supply chain
across sourcing, logistics, cross-border trade, and regulatory
compliance activities to dramatically improve operating
efficiencies and financial performance. This includes collaborating
with suppliers on development, sourcing and quality assurance;
executing import and export compliance checks and generating
international shipping documentation; booking international
carriers and tracking goods as they move around the world; and
minimizing the associated duties through preferential trade
agreements and foreign trade zones. Our solution combines
enterprise-class software, trade content sourced from government
agencies and transportation providers in 145 countries, and a
global supply chain network connecting our customers with their
trading partners, including suppliers, testing/auditing firms,
freight forwarders, customs brokers and transportation carriers. We
deliver our GTM solution using a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model
and leverage a highly flexible technology framework to quickly and
efficiently meet our customers’ unique requirements around the
world.
For more information, please visit www.AmberRoad.com, email
Solutions@AmberRoad.com or call 201-935-8588.
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