When you move dozens of loads a day from GB to Northern Ireland, TSS becomes a workflow engineering problem.
Split the flow into three phases
Before movement: confirm route, assemble goods and party data, settle at-risk, choose declaration route.
At submission and port: safety and security data, TSS customs entry, movement reference and vehicle match.
After arrival: supplementary declaration and record-keeping.
Ownership per step
Model each step with a named actor. This TSS workflow guide lays out the split cleanly: traders own goods and at-risk, carriers own safety and security, hauliers own the movement reference.
Trigger points
Kick off the customs entry as soon as the shipment is booked, not the day of movement. The reference-cannot-precede-entry rule turns short lead times into blockages.
Instrumentation
Log every stage transition with a timestamp. If you can't see where a movement is stuck, you can't fix it in time.
If you'd like to see how iCustoms operationalises this workflow end-to-end, watch a demo.
