MODSEL - SELECTIVITY MANAGEMENT IN ASYCUDA++
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· Select the Start' button to display the current status. Once started the screen is updated every
minute.
'Transaction Supervision' gives a useful research and monitoring tool that can
be effectively used within a National System using selectivity as a method of
Customs control.
Sections and Examiners Management
Overview
The system can be set up to automatically assign a declaration to a particular area of work or an
individual Examination Officer (Examiner). This assignment is done according to preset parameters
such as individual workload, examiner availability and the area where the declaration needs to be
inspected. There are comprehensive reports that can be used to control the work of Examiners and
Chief Examiners.
The area of work is known in ASYCUDA++ as the Section. A Section can be defined as one
complete work unit for verification, which has at least one Chief Examiner and a group of
Examiners. An examiner can be part of several sections as can a Chief Examiner.
Creation of Sections for examination of goods will be for the office that you are
currently configured for. See Section 9 of this Reference Document, for details
on office configuration. Any Examiners attached to a Section are for the current
office. Furthermore, any locations of goods linked to a Section are for the
current office as well.
If there are several Transit Sheds controlled by the office, there may be a Chief Examiner and a
group of Examiners attached to each Shed. On the other hand a Shed may be so big that it is sub-
divided into several sections or so small that several Sheds can be grouped in one Section.
In some cases the Section is not linked to a physical location at all but to different procedures or
classifications of goods. For example, one Section may deal with all Home Use Import declarations
while another deals with Warehouse declarations. Sections may be defined where specialist
knowledge of particular Commodities is required, for example, chemicals or motor vehicles. In such
cases, a single Section may cover several Warehouses or Sheds.
When a declaration is selected by the selectivity system and Section allocation is active, a criterion
will allocate the declaration to a Section. If in addition, automatic assignment of examiners is active,
then an Examiner and a Chief Examiner will be assigned to the declaration by the system. This will
only occur if the declaration is selected Red or Yellow. Stand by Green and Blue declarations are
not automatically allocated.
The automatic assignment of Examiner is made according to the availability, accumulated workload
and variety (e.g. one Examiner should not always deal with declarations from the same declarant).
The Chief Examiner has access to the list of selected declarations related to his section and can re-
assign any declaration as necessary to another Section or Examiner.
Sections
Automatic assignment of Sections is possible even if automatic assignment of Examiners is not
desired. You may wish to have the list of selected declarations allocated to Sections without having
the declaration selected to any Examiner. The reverse is not true. It is not possible to use the
Examiners system if Sections are not activated.