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GAACS is designed to support all parties involved in the supply chain of goods into the Bahamas.
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My name is Jeremy Hollings and I am the General Manager & CEO of GAACS (Bahamas). I am here to give you the best possible service as your Customs Broker. Feel free to call at any time.
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GAACS
A brief history.
The idea for GAACS was born in the 90's, in Nassau, Bahamas. It came about when developing an application for the leading Customs Broker at the time. Using a 4th. generation development environment called ZIM, it was soon recognized that most of the data required to support obtaining clearance for goods imported, originated from other parties involved.
Early attempts to connect with these other parties was complicated by the lack of 'Cloud Based Services'. It relied on them having a local system using the same database structure as the Broker, and with communication between them and the Broker using .csv files sent in emails.
Clearly this didn't work well and subsequently died.
The advent of a 'Thin Client' facility as part of ZIM's support for developers changed our way of further developing GAACS. With the capability of a 'cloud based' database, we became open to looking at each of the parties involved in the Supply Chain of goods imported into the Bahamas.
The concept of a 'Package of Goods' (PoG) was born, and with it came the understanding of it's central place in a Supply Chain.
During development of the different GAACS Modules we found a need to apply Artificial Intelligence into the User interface, this resulted in the Action Driven Interface (ADI), a way of informing a User of the need for action and the choices available.
We have long recognized that developing software applications, especially ones, that like GAACS, try to envisage the future, are tough to be accepted into mainstream thinking. With this in mind our current approach is to work with willing parties in the Supply Chain, and gain a full knowledge of their requirements.
The Primary Schema supporting GAACS.
The diagram shown represents some of the Entities and Relationships supported in the GAACS Database. Known for its easy use in developing complex and cloud based applications, ZIM is based on the ER Model.