# Presentation: 547608

## TSN Plenary SessionACE Account Management and HTS Functionality/DemoTrade Operations Environment Template Laurie Dempsey, USCSJohn Osborn, eCPDan Mariottini, eCPMichael Preis, eCPMichael Freeman, eCP

**October 8, 2002**

## Agenda

**ACE Account Selection Status****	****	****Laurie Dempsey**
**ACE Increment Overview & Details of**
**   ****Initial Release****	****	****	****	****John Osborn**
**Account Functionality & Data Elements****	****Dan Mariottini**
**ACE HTS Functionality****	****	****	****Michael Preis**
**ACE HTS Demonstration****	****           ****	****	****Michael Preis/Michael ****	****	****	****	****	****	****	****Freeman**
**Trade Operations Environment Template****	****John Osborn**

## ACE Account Selection

**ACE Account Selection**
**Laurie Dempsey**

## ACE Participants	

**Forty IMPORTER accounts selected represent broad range of  commodities****	**
**e.g. mass merchandising/retail, technology, automotive, pharmaceutical**

## Federal Register Notice

**Still accepting applicants **
**Eligibility criteria:**
**Customs – Partnership Against Terrorism              (C-TPAT) participant**
**Ability to connect to the internet**

## ACE Increment Overview & Details of Initial Release

**ACE Increment Overview & Details of Initial Release**
**John Osborn**

## ACE Increment Overview

***Key***

- Requirements Complete; Under Contract

- Requirements Complete; Subject to Negotiation

- Requirements Under Development

- Baseline Program Plan

_***Release 1 –  1.1***_

**ACE Infrastructure **
**Secure Web Portal**
**Account-based access **
**   ****for USCS**

_***Release 1 –   4.1***_

** ****Account Management: Exporters**
** ****Full Export Processing**
** ****Multi-modal Manifest**

**  ****Full Cargo Tracking **
**Full Account Revenue Functions**
**Full Risk Management**

**Automated Mail Release**
**Automated Drawback**
**  ****Full Conveyance Tracking**

**Account-based access for 40 importers**
**Initial Account Database**
**ACE Reference Files (HTS)**

- Source: ACE Program Plan Sept 6, 2002; Increment Allocation Matrix V.2.2. April 18, 2002; *Dates based on initial deployment, subject to change based on funding profiles.

**Notes:**
The Customs modernization project is a complex multi-year program.  It is designed to deliver the full business solution in 4 increments over 4 years.   This slide begins to give you a feel for the complexity of the challenge ahead.  Each increment is complex with significant technical and functional scope in their own right.   However, each of you can begin to appreciate the complexity of the larger modernization program when you realize that the increments are executed concurrently, not sequentially  (pause for impact)
As you can see from the chart, increments one, two and three contain two releases.  Each of these releases may contain one or many sub-releases.

It is important to note that upon the completion of a release and acceptance by Customs, an  operational readiness review and deployment period is initiated.  
Our primary focus today is on increment one.  Lets begin to discuss and decompose increment one together/

## Increment 1 Delivery Building Blocks

***Integrated Infrastructure Upon Which Business Functionality Will be Based ***
***New Portal Web Environment***
***Initial Acct Mgr Functionality for Selected Users,– Access to Reference Data***
***Test Period to enable Roll-Out to Broader Customs Enterprise***
***Comprehensive View of Account and Financial Transaction Data***

***Consolidated Inspector Interface for 7 different release systems***
***Initiate Integrated Manifest***
***e-Release for Truck Mode, to Improve Processing at Land Border Crossings***
***Establish Transaction Database for ACE ***
***Import Transaction Data***
***Account Revenue Functions for Selected Accounts***
***Single Sign-On for Standard Release for Trucks and other Existing Release Mechanisms***
***Pre-Filing by the Trade and Pre-Arrival Analysis by Customs***
***Periodic Payment***

**February ’03**
** ****Initial Acct Capabilities to Customs **
**and 40 Trade Accounts**

**December ‘02  **
**Baseline Infrastructure; Portal; **
**Framework Acct Structure; *****Intranet Only***

**September ‘03  **
**Expanded Account Functionality**

**January ‘04 **
**Trucks & Consolidated **
**Inspector e-Release **

***New Tools***

***New Capabilities***

## Increment 1, Release 1

**Establish integrated infrastructure upon which all subsequent releases delivering feature functionality will be based upon**
**Stand-up new Portal web environment**
**Deliver initial Account Manager functionality for Trade users, internal and external**
**Successfully complete Pilot test period requirements to enable roll-out to broader Customs enterprise**

- Delivered in _two sub-releases_:
*** ***
**Sub-Release 1**:  Deliver portal (including HTS reference), baseline infrastructure, and limited framework account functionality to allow USCS to certify & vet for production release.
*** ***
**Sub-Release 2**:  Deliver Accounts, Trade, and Portal functionality to internal USCS Account Managers and 40 Trade companies.  Estimate 2,000 to 3,000 initial users.

**Notes:**
Lets begin to look at each of the increment one and its releases in more detail.  
As you can see on the chart, increment one, release one is a critical foundational step in the overall modernization program.  This is the increment where the technical architectural solution is put into place to support the Modernization business solution.  In addition, this is the first deployment of complex functional capability to our constituents internally and externally.
As we discussed above, the October sub-release is an important first step.  We can think of it as building the roads or pipes that our functional capability drives on or flows through in the future.  This is a highly complex important first step.  This is where we learn to walk, before we can run.  We don’t want to under estimate the time an effort by both eCP and US Customs in this critical task.  
In addition to the infrastructure, we also deliver the Portal framework.  One of our foundational principals is that the Portal is our user interface to all of our internal Customs and external trade users.  The successful implementation, acceptance and accreditation by Customs of the Portal framework is critical to all of the Modernization program.  The certification of the Portal Framework is critical to all of the future increment and releases. 
Each of us needs to walk away from this presentation with the clear understanding that the success of the technical infrastructure and Portal framework is the critical path and milestone of the modernization program.  Upon the acceptance by Customs of sub-release one, the OIT organization within NDC will execute a rigorous process to vet out and certify the business solution.
The February sub-release is where we deliver the complex functional capabilities.  In addition, this is the first planned time for production access by our internal and external users.  The February sub-release is where we would begin fully supporting via an internet based portal solution the targeted 40 highly compliant trade importer accounts and their related brokers and carriers.  In addition, we will support the account managers that support the targeted 40 accounts and other appropriate internal Customs users.  

## Delivery by Role

- Dec 02

- Feb 03

- Sep 03

- Jan 04

- WHO

**OIT/I at NDC**

**Pilot Test**
**Operational Readiness Review (ORR)**

**Pilot Test ORR****(Mar 03 – May 03)**

**Pilot Test ORR****(Sep 03 – Dec 03)**

**Pilot Test ORR****(Jan 04 – Apr 04)**

**Account Managers & Client Reps**

**USCS Designates Access to Pilot Test**

**Account Managers and Client Reps for selected  40 Importer Accounts****(Mar 03 – May 03)**

**Expanded to Target of 1,100 Importers**

**Importer Accounts**

**Selected  40 Importer Accounts****(Mar 03 – May 03)**

**Expanded to Target of 1,100 Importers**
** **

**Importer Business Partners: Brokers**

**Brokers who are Direct Business Partners of the Selected 40 Importer Accounts**

**Expanded to Participants of**
** ****e-Release**

**Importer Business Partners: Carriers**

**Carriers who are Direct Business Partners of the Selected 40 Importer Accounts**

**Expanded Target to include Brokers  as Valid Account Type**

**Expanded to Participants of**
** ****e-Release**

**Import Specialists**

**Import Specialists who have direct responsibility for the selected 40 Importer Accounts  **

**Expanded Target**
**to include additional  selected Importer Accounts**

**Inspectors**

**Two Ports**

**PGAs**

**FMCSA Participants**

**Additional  5 Ports**

**Continue deployment to the 1,100 Accounts**

**Expanded Target to include Carriers  as Valid Account Type**

## October Overview

**Internal Release 1.1.1**
**Targeted Users - via USCS Intranet**
**Trade User functionality/capabilities- **_**Not available**_
- Establishes the base portal infrastructure and does NOT contain accounts functionality
**Implements the basic infrastructure (hardware, software, communications and security) at Customs to enable future activities **
- Will ensure that environments (hardware, software, communications, security) are working properly and achieve security certification
**Key Infrastructure Subsystems enabled in R1.1.1 include the Web Interface, Web Portal, Enterprise Systems Management, Intrusion Detection, Firewalls, and Switch Filtering capabilities.**

- Who

- Why

- How

## October Overview  (cont’d)

** ****Initial Release 1.1.1**
**Allows the **_**initial**_** portal users to be created within the portal infrastructure. Within the Customs intranet, these users will have the ability to: **
**View Standard Portal Screen Views for Account Managers**
**Add a Persona Page**
**Perform Portal User Access Administration **
**Add, Delete, Modify portal users**
**Access HTS Data Portlet**** **
**Will provide search capabilities across ITC's publication of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, which includes Chapter Notes, Tariff Schedules, legal descriptions and associated reference tables.  **
**Will provide search capabilities that will include searching by Tariff Number or Key Word with result sets returned in a hit list format. **
**Note that updates are process driven, not automatic and information is not live, e.g. static**
**Access Customs Intranet View Portlet**
**URL links to Customs Intranet**
**Access On-Line Help**
**Static Help Pages to guide user through HTS and other provided portlets**

- What

## ACE Account Functionality

**ACE Account Functionality**
**& Data Elements  **
**Dan Mariottini**

## February Overview

**Release 1.1.2**
**Selected Importer Accounts**
**Carriers & Brokers as selected by Importers**
**Customs Account Managers**
**Establish the initial account management framework data and relationships to facilitate the ability to aggregate, and interact with Customs at an account level vice the transaction level**
**Integration with legacy systems**

- Who

- Why

- How

## February Overview (cont’d)

** ****Release 1.1.2 continued**
**Managed account application**
**Setup and maintain account profiles**
**Setup and maintain business partners relationships**
**Setup and maintain account action**
**Significant activity log**
**Access to ACS legacy data through integration with existing systems**
**Customs Automated Port Profile System (CAPPS)**
**Automated Targeting System (ATS) **
**Entry Summary Findings Analysis System (ESFAS) **

- What

## Accounts Data Elements- February

**Handout available to define the Increment 1 Release 1, Account Management Data for the February timeframe**
**Identified are the following attributes**
**Component**
**Field**
**Description**
**Data type**
**Length**
**Required, Optional, Display**
**Validation**

## Account Management Data

**Data Elements**
** **Component or
-    Subsystem
-  Field
-  Description
-  Data Type
-  Length
-  (R, O, D)
- Required
-  Optional
-  Display
-  Validation

**For each**
** ****of...**

-  Importer Info
-  Importer Mailing Address
-  2nd Importer Address
-  Billing/Refund Info
-  Account Owner/POC
-  Broker Info
-  Carrier Info
-  Account Profile
-  Significant Activity Log (SAL)
-   Bonds
-  Account Profile

## ACE HTS Functionality

**ACE HTS Functionality**
**Michael Preis**

## October Overview - HTS

**HTS Functionality in Release 1.1.1 **
**Authorized Customs users only (via Intranet)**
**Demonstrate representation and functionality of an electronic copy of the HTS “book”**
**Provide functionality on the Web portal**
**Provide a transition from manual use of the “book” to a database and more powerful search capabilities scheduled in Increment 1.1.2 (February release)   **
**HTML representation of the ITC’s HTS “book”**
**Use standard Web browser functionalities **

- Who

- Why

- How

## October Overview – HTS (cont’d)

** ****HTS Functionality in Release 1.1.1 **
**Provide “look and feel” of the current HTS “book”**
**Provide HTS number and basic key-word search capability**
**Provide view of all General, Section, and Chapter notes**
**Provide view of all appendices and annexes in the HTS “book”**
**Provide view of change records**
**Provide user annotations**

- What

## February Overview - HTS

**HTS functionality in Release 1.1.2**
**Selected Importer Accounts**
**Carriers & Brokers as selected by Importers**
**Customs Account Managers**
**Establish the capability for an ACE-HTS database for the use of Customs and authorized trade users**
**Interface through the ACE Portal**
_**Daily updates **_**of ACE-HTS based on Harmonized Schedule Annotated (HSA)**
**Updates when available from ITC for HTS “deltas”**

- Who

- Why

- How

## February Overview – HTS (cont’d)

** ****HTS Functionality in Release 1.1.2 **
**Content**
**Archived HTS to January 1989**
**Full legal description from ITC**
**Duty computations from ACS - HSA**
**Customs Rulings (HTML link to CROSS) **
**Census definitions (alpha description of the HTS number)**
**Data Sources:**
**USITC – HTS (10 digit HT# database, HTS Notes, Appendices, Annexes)**
**ACS – HSA (170K records)**
**USCS Rulings **
**Functionality/Presentation:**
**Numerical and text searches**
**Daily “Bulletin Board” of changes for ACS - HSA**
**Structured queries (e.g. Trade agreements, duties)**
**Personal Shareable Annotations and Notes**
**Chapter 98/99 cross-reference to Chapter 1 to 97**

- What

## ACE HTS Demonstration 

**ACE HTS Demonstration **
**Michael Preis/Michael Freeman**

## HTS Portal Demonstration

** ****Capabilities of HTS via the Portal (December)**
** ****Future capabilities of HTS via the Portal (February)**

## Trade Operations Environment Template

**Trade Operations Environment Template**
**John Osborn**

## Trade Operations Environment Template

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## Trade Operations Environment Template

## 		    Questions

- 		    Questions