By now, most Irish businesses exporting to the UK will have become very familiar with SAD - the Single Administrative Document  – used for trade with non-EU countries to fulfil requirements to enable exporting sales orders to the UK.

Irish exporters can manually process the SAD requirements or use a broker, and this process is relatively straightforward albeit it cumbersome and time consuming based on what we have been used to.  

As many people now managing the process will be aware, the complexity and effort involved in managing custom requirements for deliveries to the UK since Brexit increases depending on the number of deliveries drops on a load. It also increases in line with products being shipped i.e. whether they’re single or mixed loads and the ports hauliers are using to travel to the UK.

The Influencing ‘Shipping Effort’ Factors

All of these factors will influence the work and planning efforts involved in the ‘shipping effort’, but of course, this is only half the story. There are future requirements coming down the line yet to be implemented by the UK government, who have afforded importers and exporters a little breathing space for now.

Right now, though the most cumbersome aspect of the export process for organisations and where the real headaches and issues are occurring is when it comes to sharing information with drivers and hauliers about specific sales orders, load and shipping route details.

Automation Is the Key to Solving this Issue

This is the information they need to share to ensure they can deal efficiently with customs and crossing into the UK with no delays. This is no fun when you are shipping anywhere between 25 + loads a day and to make it work efficiently, so automation is needed.

HUB360 simplifies this process in 2 ways:

1. The HUB360 platform enables you and your Haulier share in real time all relevant export information, e.g. Shipping Routes, MRNS, PBNs etc

2. The HUB360 platform can integrate with your broker to completely automate SAD processes once you generate a sales order, which is then automatically shared with your haulier.

In automating these tasks, the HUB360 Haulier Portal and Mobile Driver APP enables a complete digital solution that allows exports to the UK to be managed seamlessly. In addition to this, there is a centrally stored and shared repository of all Export documentation.

A Fully Transparent End-to-End Process

At HUB 360 we enable improved resource use efficiency, seamless distribution of goods, a fully transparent end-to-end delivery process and much more besides.

If you would like to know more about how we can help you work smarter, why not visit us at www.hub360.ie? There you’ll find lots of useful information and booking a demonstration of our platform is super-easy too, with the ‘REQUEST DEMO’ button easily visible on our homepage.