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Smart.Air.WayBill IQ

Smart.Air.WayBill is a managed service that leverages a serverless architecture on AWS to capture, classify, extract, and enrich data from paper-based air waybills. The service streamlines the processing of air waybills, improves data accuracy, and ensures efficient tracking and management of air freight shipments.

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Smart.Air.WayBill is a game-changing managed service that simplifies and automates the processing of air waybills. By leveraging AWS's serverless architecture, Smart.Air.WayBill intelligently captures, classifies, extracts, and enriches data from paper-based air waybills, reducing manual effort, improving accuracy, and providing real-time visibility into air freight shipments. With Smart.Air.WayBill, organizations can streamline their air freight operations, minimize errors, and make informed decisions based on accurate and timely data.

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What we offer ?

Smart.Air.WayBill is a managed service that automates the processing of paper-based air waybills, extracting and enriching data using AWS's serverless architecture.

For Who ?

The service is designed for organizations involved in air freight, including shippers, carriers (airlines), freight forwarders, and consignees, who deal with a significant volume of air waybills and require efficient and accurate processing.

Smart.Air.WayBill utilizes AWS services such as Amazon Textract, Amazon Comprehend, AWS Lambda, Amazon A2I, and Amazon S3 to capture, classify, extract, and enrich data from air waybills. The service provides a user-friendly interface for air waybill upload, review, and validation.

How do we Leverage AWS ?

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Financial Benefits

  • Reduced labor costs associated with manual air waybill processing

  • Minimized risk of penalties and fines due to inaccurate or incomplete air waybill data

  • Optimized air freight costs through better visibility

  • Faster invoicing and payment cycles

  • Scalable and cost-effective solution with pay-as-you-go pricing

Operational Benefits

  • Automated air waybill processing, reducing manual effort and errors

  • Improved data accuracy and consistency

  • Real-time visibility into air freight shipments and tracking

  • Streamlined air freight operations and enhanced efficiency

  • Improved compliance with industry regulations and standards

Benefits of the Cloud Adoption Framework

By integrating Smart.Air.WayBill with the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, organizations can realize significant benefits across various perspectives, including optimized operations, improved customer satisfaction, enhanced compliance, scalability, security, and simplified operations. This integration empowers organizations to streamline their air waybill processing, make data-driven decisions, and achieve operational excellence in the cloud.

Business Perspective

  • Optimized air freight operations: Smart.Air.WayBill streamlines the processing of air waybills, reducing manual effort, minimizing errors, and improving efficiency, enabling organizations to optimize their air freight operations and focus on core business activities.

  • Improved customer satisfaction: By providing real-time visibility into air freight shipments and enabling prompt issue resolution, Smart.Air.WayBill helps organizations enhance customer satisfaction and build trust with their clients.

  • Data-driven decision-making: Smart.Air.WayBill provides structured and actionable data insights from air waybills, enabling organizations to make informed decisions related to air freight routes, carrier selection, and resource allocation.

People Perspective

  • Enhanced productivity: Smart.Air.WayBill automates repetitive tasks associated with air waybill processing, freeing up employees to focus on higher-value activities and strategic initiatives.

  • Skill development: Integrating Smart.Air.WayBill with the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework provides opportunities for employees to develop new skills in cloud computing, data analysis, and air freight management.

  • Collaborative workflow: The centralized air waybill management and data accessibility enabled by Smart.Air.WayBill foster collaboration among teams involved in air freight operations, such as logistics, customer service, and finance.

Governance Perspective

  • Compliance with regulations: Smart.Air.WayBill helps organizations comply with air freight industry regulations by providing accurate and auditable air waybill data, reducing the risk of non-compliance and penalties.

  • Data governance: The service enables better data governance through structured and consistent air waybill data capture, storage, and management, ensuring data integrity and facilitating effective data management practices.

  • Audit readiness: With automated air waybill processing and data management, Smart.Air.WayBill enhances audit readiness by providing easily accessible and traceable records of air freight transactions.

Platform Perspective

  • Scalability and flexibility: Smart.Air.WayBill leverages AWS's serverless architecture, allowing organizations to easily scale their air waybill processing capabilities based on fluctuating air freight volumes and business requirements.

  • Reliability and availability: The service ensures high availability and reliability by leveraging AWS's robust infrastructure and fault-tolerant design, minimizing downtime and ensuring uninterrupted air waybill processing.

  • Integration capabilities: Smart.Air.WayBill can seamlessly integrate with other AWS services and third-party applications, such as cargo management systems or enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, enabling end-to-end air freight workflows.

Security Perspective

  • Data protection: Smart.Air.WayBill incorporates AWS security best practices, including encryption, access control, and secure data storage, to protect sensitive air waybill information and ensure data confidentiality.

  • Secure access management: The service leverages AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to enforce granular access controls and authenticate users, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access and modify air waybill data.

  • Compliance with industry standards: By aligning with AWS's compliance programs and certifications, such as ISO 27001 and SOC, Smart.Air.WayBill helps organizations meet industry-specific security and compliance requirements.

Operation Perspective

  • Simplified operations: As a managed service, Smart.Air.WayBill simplifies air waybill processing operations by abstracting away infrastructure management complexities and providing automated workflows.

  • Proactive monitoring and logging: The service integrates with Amazon CloudWatch for comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting, enabling proactive issue detection and resolution.

  • Continuous improvement: Smart.Air.WayBill benefits from AWS's continuous innovation and updates, ensuring access to the latest features, performance enhancements, and best practices in air waybill processing.

Leveraging AWS Well-Architected Framework

By leveraging these AWS products and services across the Well-Architected Framework pillars, Smart.Air.WayBill can capture, classify, extract, validate, and enrich data from air waybills in a serverless architecture that is operationally excellent, secure, reliable, performance-efficient, and cost-optimized. The combination of these services enables the automation and optimization of air waybill processing workflows while ensuring compliance with best practices and industry standards.

Operational Excellence Pillar

  • AWS Lambda: Serverless compute service for executing code without provisioning or managing servers, enabling efficient and scalable air waybill processing.

  • Amazon CloudWatch: Monitoring and observability service for real-time monitoring, logging, and alerting of Smart.Air.WayBill resources and performance metrics.

  • AWS CloudFormation: Infrastructure as code (IaC) service for automating the deployment and management of Smart.Air.WayBill resources in a consistent and repeatable manner.

  • AWS Step Functions: Serverless workflow orchestration service for coordinating and automating the different stages of air waybill processing, including data capture, classification, extraction, validation, and enrichment.

  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): Service for securely managing access to AWS resources and controlling permissions for Smart.Air.WayBill components.

  • Amazon Cognito: User authentication and authorization service for securely managing user access to the Smart.Air.WayBill application.

  • AWS Key Management Service (KMS): Managed service for creating and controlling encryption keys used to encrypt sensitive air waybill data at rest.

  • AWS Certificate Manager (ACM): Service for provisioning, managing, and deploying SSL/TLS certificates for secure communication between Smart.Air.WayBill components and users.

Security Pillar

Reliability Pillar

  • Amazon S3: Highly durable and scalable object storage service for storing and retrieving air waybills and processed data.

  • AWS Lambda: Serverless compute service designed for high availability and fault tolerance, ensuring reliable execution of air waybill processing tasks.

  • Amazon DynamoDB: Serverless NoSQL database service for storing and retrieving metadata and processed air waybill data with high availability and durability.

  • Amazon SQS: Fully managed message queuing service for decoupling and ensuring reliable communication between Smart.Air.WayBill components.

  • Amazon Textract: Fully managed service that uses machine learning to automatically extract text, handwriting, and data from scanned air waybills.

  • Amazon Comprehend: Natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to uncover insights and relationships in air waybill data.

  • Amazon Augmented AI (A2I): Human review service that brings human judgment into the air waybill processing workflow to validate and improve the accuracy of machine learning predictions. A2I can be used to review and validate the extracted data, classifications, and enrichments performed by Smart.Air.WayBill, ensuring high-quality results and building trust in the automated process.

  • Amazon Elasticsearch Service: Fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling Elasticsearch clusters, enabling fast search and analytics on processed air waybill data.
    AWS Lambda: Serverless compute service that automatically scales based on incoming requests, ensuring optimal performance and efficiency.

  • Amazon API Gateway: Fully managed service for creating, publishing, and securing APIs, enabling seamless integration with other systems and applications.

Performance Efficiency Pillar

Cost Optimization
Pillar

  • AWS Lambda: Pay-as-you-go pricing model, where you only pay for the compute time consumed during air waybill processing, optimizing costs.

  • Amazon S3: Cost-effective storage option with pricing based on the amount of data stored, access requests, and data transfer.

  • Amazon DynamoDB: On-demand capacity mode for automatic scaling and pay-per-request pricing, optimizing costs based on usage.

  • AWS Cost Explorer: Cost management tool for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing costs associated with Smart.Air.WayBill resources.

  • AWS Budgets: Service for setting custom budgets and receiving alerts when forecasted or actual costs exceed defined thresholds.

  • AWS Lambda: Promotes sustainability by efficiently allocating compute resources and reducing energy consumption.

  • Amazon S3: Stores data in shared, multi-tenant hardware, optimizing resource utilization.

  • Amazon DynamoDB: Provides a serverless database that automatically scales capacity, minimizing over-provisioning and reducing energy waste.

  • AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool: Helps measure, track, and reduce the carbon emissions associated with using AWS services.

  • Implement efficient data storage practices, such as using Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering, which automatically moves data between access tiers based on usage patterns, optimizing storage costs and reducing the storage footprint.

  • Take advantage of AWS's commitment to renewable energy by running on AWS regions that have a higher percentage of renewable energy mix.

Sustainability Pillar

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