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The Challenge
Society of Lifestyle has experienced major growth since it started in 2001. With its multitude of brands and several collections in the course of a year, Society of Lifestyle has a reputation with end-users, for providing high quality and exciting new products immediately after they are launched.
Goods are mostly produced outside of the EU, and many are also sold to customers outside the EU. With a product range of more than 3600 items, customs handling must be carried out in a diligent, flexible and expedient way.
The costs to Society of Lifestyle for external customs handling were considerable. Since growth is expected to continue, with corresponding expansion of the product range, these external costs were expected to increase.
A choice was made to in-source the process by investing in an IT system, which could take care of customs declaration and provide support over time in order to:
The solution
In selecting Logistics Trading Services (LTS), Society of Lifestyle has adopted a cloud-based standard solution for customs handling processes in connection with goods import and export, and taking advantage of bonded warehousing.
The chosen solution supports the process end-to-end, from import of goods originating outside the EU, through bonded goods accounting and reconciliation though to sale of goods within or outside the EU, including integration towards Danish Customs Authorities’ IT systems (Told2000, e-Export and Manifest).
For Society of Lifestyle, the solution is integrated with their Microsoft Dynamics C5 ERP-system, which provides the data set used by LTS to automate the Customs process.
The LTS service agreement includes the creation and maintenance of currency exchange rates and tariff codes, plus management of users and user-roles in
the system.
Benefits
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Society of Lifestyle is a family-run interior design company, headquartered in Ikast.
The company was established in 2001. Society of Lifestyle’s product range comprises furniture, storage solutions and decorative items. Design is done in-house and suppliers are carefully selected from the best manufacturers in the world. Sales distribution is via a steadily growing dealer network, which currently includes more than 5000 dealers covering most of the globe
You can read more about Society of Lifestyle here.
”Lector is a valuable partner for us. The use of LTS and the sparring we receive on customs clearance, makes it easier for us to declare our goods on import and re-exports”.
“We save time and optimise the data quality in our ERP-system for the wide variety of products we handle.
Further, we have achieved significant savings, by reducing to a minimum the amount of time needed to handle shipments. At the same time we ensure correct allocation of tariff codes, because we can provide better data to Customs Authorities.”
Flemming Munck Nielsen
Logistikchef
Society of Lifestyle
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