KR20210099926A - Automation system for import-export procedure - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for automating reporting of imports and exports. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system for automating reporting of imports and exports. The system comprises: a homepage server for providing an import and export report information input interface for customs automation through a homepage; an import and export report automation server for automatically reporting imports and exports; a seller terminal for accessing a customs automation homepage and inputting import and export report information through the interface; and a blockchain system for recording import and export report procedures. When import and export report information is input through the interface, the homepage server generates a shipping document as a document file based on the inputted import and export report information, provides the generated document file to the seller terminal so that the seller terminal can download the same, and transmits the inputted import and export report information to the import and export report automation server. Upon receiving the import and export report information, the import and export report automation server verifies import and export requirements and/or FTA conditions based on the received import and export report information, automatically performs customs-related procedures through a customs system, and stores information on import and export reports in the blockchain system. Therefore, the system can integrate individual procedures performed by sellers and buyers in different countries.

Description

Import/export process automation system and its control method {AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR IMPORT-EXPORT PROCEDURE}

The present invention relates to an automated system for import and export procedures, and more particularly, to an automated system capable of minimizing unnecessary procedures and repetitive procedures by integrating exporters, importers, logistics systems and customs clearance systems by introducing an integrated processing system. .

When a buyer (buyer) imports goods from a seller (seller) in another country, the buyer or the buyer's agent (hereinafter collectively referred to as an export/import declarant) must file a customs declaration in their own country.

When the export/import declarant receives the Shipping Document from the seller, which includes a Commercial Invoice (CI), Packing List (PK), Billing of Lading (B/L), etc., this shipment Customs declaration is made by checking the information necessary for customs declaration in the documents. In this case, the bill of lading may be received from the seller, or the shipping company may provide it to the buyer directly.

It is not complicated for the declarant to manually extract the information required for customs declaration because the format of these shipping documents is different for each seller around the world, and the information to be extracted according to the quantity or type of goods increases. .

Furthermore, there is information that the seller enters to create documents such as commercial invoices and packing statements, and such information must be repeatedly entered when making import/export declarations. Accordingly, there are many procedures or time wasted due to such repetitive information input.

In addition, due to the nature of trade transactions, high reliability of shipping documents is required. They didn't even load the goods on the ship, because they can forge shipping documents and demand payment for the goods as if they were loaded. In particular, in the case of a system that automatically extracts product information in order to reduce manual work, it is inevitably exposed to such a risk of forgery and falsification.

Therefore, there is a need for research on a system capable of automating the customs declaration procedure while having higher reliability from the risk of forgery and falsification of information.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention aims to solve the above and other problems. Its purpose is to provide an automated system that integrates the individual procedures performed by sellers and buyers in different countries during import and export into one.

The technical problems to be achieved in the present invention are not limited to the technical problems mentioned above, and other technical problems not mentioned will be clearly understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention belongs from the following description. will be able

According to an aspect of the present invention in order to achieve the above or other objects, a homepage server that provides an import/export report information input interface for customs automation through a homepage; Export/import report automation server that automatically performs import/export declaration; a seller terminal accessing the customs automation homepage and filling out shipping documents through the interface; and a block chain system for recording the import/export declaration procedure, wherein the homepage server generates a shipping document as a document file based on the input/export declaration information when the import/export declaration information is input through the interface, and the generation It provides the seller terminal to download the shipping document document file, transmits the entered export/import report information to the export/import report automation server, and the import/export report automation server receives the export/import report information, Export/import declaration, characterized in that the import/export requirements and FTA conditions are verified based on the import/export declaration information, the import/export declaration procedure is automatically performed in the customs system, and the information on the performed import/export declaration is stored in the block chain system Provides an automated system.

The effect of the automation system according to the present invention will be described as follows.

According to at least one of the embodiments of the present invention, there is an advantage that the information input by the seller to prepare the shipping document can be recycled and used for export/import declaration.

In addition, according to at least one of the embodiments of the present invention, there is an advantage that can be performed collectively by integrating the procedures repeatedly performed during import and export.

Further scope of applicability of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description. However, it should be understood that the detailed description and specific embodiments such as preferred embodiments of the present invention are given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the present invention may be clearly understood by those skilled in the art.

1 is a diagram illustrating a block diagram of an import/export procedure automation system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 and 3 are diagrams showing a control flowchart of the import/export procedure automation system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the embodiments disclosed in the present specification will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the same or similar components are assigned the same reference numerals regardless of reference numerals, and overlapping descriptions thereof will be omitted. The suffixes "module" and "part" for the components used in the following description are given or mixed in consideration of only the ease of writing the specification, and do not have a meaning or role distinct from each other by themselves. In addition, in describing the embodiments disclosed in the present specification, if it is determined that detailed descriptions of related known technologies may obscure the gist of the embodiments disclosed in the present specification, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. In addition, the accompanying drawings are only for easy understanding of the embodiments disclosed in the present specification, and the technical spirit disclosed herein is not limited by the accompanying drawings, and all changes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention , should be understood to include equivalents or substitutes.

Terms including an ordinal number, such as first, second, etc., may be used to describe various elements, but the elements are not limited by the terms. The above terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another.

When a component is referred to as being “connected” or “connected” to another component, it is understood that the other component may be directly connected or connected to the other component, but other components may exist in between. it should be On the other hand, when it is said that a certain element is "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another element, it should be understood that no other element is present in the middle.

The singular expression includes the plural expression unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

In the present application, terms such as "comprises" or "have" are intended to designate that a feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification exists, but one or more other features It should be understood that this does not preclude the existence or addition of numbers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

In the present invention, it is intended to propose a reliable system between the seller and the buyer as well as automating the procedures necessary for performing the import/export procedure through the purchase of goods between the seller in the first country and the buyer in the second country. In particular, in one embodiment of the present invention, blockchain technology is used to secure reliability.

Blockchain technology refers to a data distribution processing technology in which all users participating in the network distribute and store all data to be managed. It is also called 'distributed ledger technology (DLC)' or 'public transaction ledger' in that the ledger containing transaction information is not owned by the transaction subject or a specific institution, but is a technology shared by all network participants. . Blockchain is a name given to the fact that blocks containing transaction contents are linked like a chain.

Such a block chain can be used in various industrial fields, and will be most suitable for fields where reliability against forgery must be secured, such as in the trade transaction intended in the present invention.

Before going into the detailed description of the present invention, a brief look at some things to be defined in relation to the block chain.

Blockchain technology is currently being actively used in the financial system. Hereinafter, the method applied in the financial system will be described as an example, but it will be apparent that the information stored is not limited to the financial system and can be applied to the trade transaction system by partially modifying the stored information.

The core concept of blockchain is decentralization, which aims for P2P (Peer to Peer) transactions, away from the existing financial system that secures and manages all transactions in financial institutions. P2P refers to a communication network that connects personal computers without a server or client, and each connected computer acts as a server and client and shares information.

In the existing financial system, financial companies have kept transaction records on a central server, whereas in a blockchain based on the P2P method, transaction information is stored in blocks and connected in turn, and it is shared by all participants.

The processing of blockchain technology for the transaction process (transaction, transaction) in the financial system is performed as follows. ① A makes a transaction request to B, such as a request for remittance. ② A block containing the transaction information is created. ③ When the block is sent to all participants on the network, the participants mutually verify the validity of the transaction information. ④ The transaction details that match the data of the majority of participants are checked with the normal ledger. The verified block is linked to the previous block, and a copy is made and distributed and stored in each user's computer. ⑤ A sends a remittance to B and the transaction is completed. In this case, all transactions generated within a preset period (eg, about 10 minutes) may be generated as one block.

Through this process, by checking whether the data of the majority of participants match the data, the reliability can be secured even when the block is created, and copies of the completed blocks are stored individually in each computer (node) to prevent forgery and falsification. make it practically impossible.

The proof system in the present invention is intended to be applied to various processes that may occur in trade transactions, instead of proof of transactions used in the financial system as described above.

Hereinafter, terms related to blockchain will be described.

· block

A block is a unit for storing data and is divided into a body and a header. The body contains the transaction details, and the header contains cryptographic codes such as merkle hash (merkle root) and nonce (random number related to encryption). Blocks are created in a cycle of about 10 minutes, and by collecting transaction records, creating a block and verifying its reliability, it is connected to the previous block to form a block chain. The block that starts here is called the genesis block. That is, the genesis block refers to the first block in which no blocks have been created before it.

· Node

Blockchain maintains and manages the network by gathering individual servers participating in transactions without storing and managing transaction records on a centralized server. This individual server, that is, a participant is called a node. Since there is no central administrator, the role of the node distributing blocks is important, and a new block is created only when more than half of the participating nodes agree. The nodes store the block chain in the computer, and even if some nodes are hacked and the existing contents are changed, the data remains in a large number of nodes, so data can be continuously preserved.

· Hash function

It is a function that derives a result of the same length no matter what data is input. It is unlikely that the derived results will be duplicated, and it is difficult to inversely estimate the input value as the result value. For this reason, comparing the hash values can determine if a change has occurred in the data. As for the hash function, SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm)-1 was first devised, followed by a more advanced form of SHA-2 (SHA 256), which is being used in the block chain. In SHA-2, no matter what length value is input, the result is derived as 256 bits.

1 is a diagram showing a block diagram of an import/export procedure automation system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the import/export procedure automation system 100 includes the seller/buyer terminals 108 and 109, the import/export declaration automation server 110, the homepage server 111, the customs system 190, and the payment system ( 191 ), a logistics system 192 , and a blockchain system 193 . The illustrated components are not essential for implementing the import/export procedure automation system 100, so the automated import/export procedure system 100 described herein may have more or fewer components than the components listed above. can

Components constituting the import/export procedure automation system 100 Seller/buyer terminals 108 and 109, the import/export declaration automation server 110, the homepage server 111, the customs system 190, the logistics system 192, and the block chain The system 193 may be connected by one or more wired and wireless networks.

The seller/buyer terminals 108 and 109 are information processing devices such as personal computers (PCs), smart phones, and mobile phones, and access the website server 111 to access the website server 111 (or program or application), and based on the instruction input by the user, a command related to the export/import report may be transmitted to the homepage server 111 .

The homepage server 111 may provide the seller/buyer terminals 108 and 109 with an interface for inputting information on import/export declarations, and based on the received information, automatically generate a document file on shipping documents. generated and stored in the cloud server 112 .

The export/import report automation server 110 is a server for automatically performing export/import report for the import/export of goods made in the homepage server 111 .

The customs system 190 is a system for performing customs procedures. It may be provided in a form included in the system of the present invention, but may be a system constructed by a customs agency (customs office, etc.) separately from the present invention. The customs system 190 may, after performing customs processing on the customs declaration (import and export declaration) from the export/import declaration automation server 110 , return the progress result back to the import/export declaration automation server 110 .

Logistics system 192 is a system for shipping import and export goods according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The block chain system 193 refers to a system (or server) for recording various procedures performed on the system according to an embodiment of the present invention on the block chain.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to a flowchart.

2 and 3 are diagrams showing a control flowchart of the import/export procedure automation system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to the drawing, the system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may collect necessary information from sellers and buyers through the homepage server 111 .

According to the existing import/export system, the seller enters information such as the price and quantity of the goods to be exported (sales goods) through the ERP system (smart factory system, etc.) used individually, Fill out the paperwork yourself. In this case, the prepared document may be in the form of an actual document printed on paper, or may be in the form of an electronic document stored as a document file (docx, pdf, etc.). The shipping documents thus prepared by the seller are delivered to the buyer. Upon receipt of the shipping documents, the buyer may file a customs declaration directly, or a customs declaration may be made by a customs agent (customs agent).

However, according to such an existing system, there arises a problem that the seller's input to generate shipping documents and the customs agent's input for customs declaration are repeated procedurally. This problem is because the system is not integrated. In other words, if the seller prepares the shipping document through a system integrated with the buyer's import procedure, rather than using an individual system when preparing the shipping document, the system can be operated more effectively because duplicate input can be minimized. There will be.

Therefore, the present invention proposes to provide an integrated system so that when the seller inputs information related to import/export goods, the information can be utilized again in the export/import report.

First, the purchaser terminal 109 may access the homepage server 111 in step S201. The homepage server 111 may provide an order-related interface to the accessed purchaser terminal 109 (S202). In this case, the order-related interface may include procedures such as the purchaser terminal 109 registering as a member or logging in, and receiving at least one order-related information of import/export items through the purchaser terminal 109 .

The purchaser terminal 109 may create an order through the interface (S203). In this case, the creation of an order may include information on an order (name, quantity, unit price, seller information, etc. of the product) to be imported and exported. In addition, in one embodiment of the present invention, it is proposed to include a password so that no one can access the information.

After the order creation is completed, the purchaser terminal 109 requests a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) from the homepage server 111 ( S204 ). The homepage server 111 may generate a URL corresponding to the order, and return the generated URL to the purchaser terminal 109 (S205).

The reason for creating the URL in this way is to induce sellers located in other countries to actively participate in the integrated system. This is because, from the seller's point of view, there is a program that he was using before, but using the new system may be somewhat cumbersome or repulsive.

Therefore, the homepage server 111 according to an embodiment of the present invention generates a URL and provides it to the purchaser terminal 109. When the seller terminal 108 accesses the URL later, a separate additional menu is entered. This is to provide an interface necessary for a related order without any other requirements.

That is, the buyer terminal 109 may request (S206) to input the information on the import/export report while delivering the URL to the seller terminal 108 . When the seller terminal 108 accesses the homepage server 111 through the corresponding URL, the homepage server 111 may provide a related interface to the seller terminal 108 (S208). In this case, the provided interface may be an interface provided to directly input export/import report information, and in particular, as described above, the URL may be provided so that the seller terminal 108 can directly input information without entering a separate menu. there is. The information input at this time will be information necessary to generate the shipping document.

The seller terminal 108 may input export/import report information through the interface (S209). In addition, the information input in S210 may be transmitted to the homepage server 111 . The homepage server 111 receiving the corresponding information generates a shipping document based on the input information.

In this case, the generated shipping document is generated in the form of a document file such as pdf or docx, and the generated document may be provided to the seller terminal 108 or the buyer terminal 109 . In this case, the provision may include transmitting the document file itself, but may include providing a state where the seller/buyer terminals 108 and 109 can be downloaded at any time in a state stored in the cloud server 112. . In addition, the above procedure includes automatically generating shipping documents in such a way that the seller's ERP system is linked to the homepage server 111 to transmit and receive import/export related information.

According to the above-described control method, with the introduction of one integrated system, the buyer provides a URL to the seller, and the seller accesses the URL and inputs information to easily create and share documents.

Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 3 , a method for automatically performing customs declaration is proposed.

According to the control method of FIG. 2 , the homepage server 111 may receive and store information on the generation of shipping documents from the seller terminal 108 . At this time, the stored information may be used not only for generating shipping documents, but also for customs declaration.

Accordingly, the homepage server 111 according to an embodiment of the present invention transmits the import/export report information received from the seller to the logistics system (S300), and transmits it to the export/import report automation server 110 (S301). And, the import/export declaration automation server 110 may automatically perform a customs declaration to the customs system based on the received import/export declaration information (S302), and record the execution procedure in the block chain system 193 (S303). The reason for recording in the block chain system 193 as described above is to improve the reliability of the integrated automation system. This is because, in import/export transactions in which the seller and the buyer are in different countries, trust in the transaction may be important.

More specifically, the export/import declaration automation server 110 may automatically perform the declaration by accessing the customs system 190 based on the received export/import declaration information. For example, such a procedure may be performed through an API (Application Programming Interface) provided by the customs system 190 . And, if a reply is received from the customs system for the import/export declaration result, the reply result may be transmitted to at least one of the distribution system 192, the seller terminal 108, and the buyer terminal 109 (S304).

On the other hand, in the case of proceeding through a URL, there is a disadvantage that security may be vulnerable. Accordingly, in the present invention, it is intended to propose a system that can create a trustworthy environment for the subject between the seller and the buyer and at the same time block the connection from a third party. In this case, the trust of the subject can be obtained by accurately specifying the subject online.

4 is a diagram illustrating a control flowchart of the system 100 for automation of import and export procedures with improved security, according to another embodiment of the present invention. In the illustrated drawings, procedures (same procedures) corresponding to the flowchart of FIG. 2 are represented by the same numbers.

First, the seller terminal 108 and the buyer terminal 109 register their public keys on the homepage (S401). In this case, the homepage server 111 may store the public key by matching the IDs of each seller and buyer. In particular, step S401 may be performed together with the membership registration procedure in the homepage server 111 .

In step S202, the homepage server 111 provides an order-related interface. Through the provided interface, at least one information related to the order of the import/export item may be input through the purchaser terminal 109 .

The purchaser terminal 109 may create an order through the interface (S203). In this case, the creation of an order may include information on an order (name, quantity, unit price, seller information, etc. of the product) to be imported and exported. In this case, the seller information is information for identifying the seller, and may include an ID or e-mail address of a seller subscribed to the homepage server 111 . In addition, as will be described in more detail below, the access password required when the seller terminal 108 accesses may be included together when the order is written. This is to prevent a third party who does not know the access password from accessing the order-related page.

After the order creation is completed, the purchaser terminal 109 requests a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) from the homepage server 111 ( S204 ).

In an embodiment of the present invention related to FIG. 4 , after generating a URL in response to a URL request, it is proposed to encrypt the URL and the access password ( S410 ). In this case, the access password means a password required for access through the URL, and if there is no access password, the homepage server 111 may block the access.

In the previous embodiment described with reference to FIG. 2 , the URL was returned to the purchaser terminal 109 . However, in this embodiment related to FIG. 4 , the encrypted URL may be returned to the purchaser terminal 109 , but may also be provided directly to the seller terminal 108 . This is because, during the membership registration procedure of the seller terminal 108 , it may have information that can directly contact the seller terminal 108 . For example, the encrypted URL may be provided through an email address input by the seller terminal 108 . In this case, an encrypted access password may also be provided along with the encrypted URL.

In particular, in one embodiment of the present invention, it is proposed to use a public key and a private key during encryption.

A public key and a private key mean a paired encryption/decryption key. Data encrypted with the public key can be decrypted using the private key, and data encrypted with the private key can be decrypted with the public key. Since the public key and the private key are already known technologies, detailed related details will be omitted.

First, in an embodiment of the present invention, it is proposed to encrypt the URL based on the 'purchaser's private key' registered in the homepage server 111 . This is because, when the URL is decrypted through the 'buyer's public key', the seller can 'precisely specify the buyer'. In order to encrypt the URL through the 'buyer's private key', the homepage server 111 may receive the 'buyer's private key' and perform encryption directly, but the purchaser terminal 109 converts the URL into the 'buyer's private key After encryption through ', it may be provided to the seller terminal 108 through the homepage server 111.

Furthermore, encryption of the access password according to an embodiment of the present invention is proposed to be performed through a 'seller's public key'. That is, when the purchaser terminal 109 inputs the access password through the interface, the homepage server 111 encrypts the access password through the 'seller's public key' and provides it to the seller terminal 108 .

When the access password is encrypted through the 'seller's public key', the buyer cannot decrypt the access password if it is not the seller, so the seller can be accurately identified. In addition, since access to the homepage server 111 can be blocked or released through the access password, there will be an advantage in that access of a third party can be effectively restricted.

That is, the seller terminal 108 inquires the 'purchaser's public key' registered in the homepage server 111 to decrypt the 'encrypted URL', and uses the 'buyer's public key' obtained through the inquiry. The 'encrypted URL' is decrypted.

In addition, the seller terminal 108 uses its own private key to decrypt the 'encrypted access password'.

When the URL is decrypted, the seller terminal 108 accesses the homepage server 111 through the URL. The homepage server 111 may request the access password (S414), and in response to this, the seller terminal 108 inputs the decrypted access password (S415).

When the correct access password is input, the homepage server 111 may provide a related interface to the seller terminal 108 (S208). The interface provided at this time is an interface provided to directly input export/import report information, as described above with FIG. 2 .

The procedure after step S208 (after S209) and the procedure related to FIG. 3 are the same as described above, and thus will be omitted.

Although the embodiment of the automation system according to the present invention has been described above, it is described as at least one embodiment, and the technical spirit of the present invention, its configuration and operation are not limited thereby, and the technical spirit of the present invention The scope is not limited / limited by the drawings or the description with reference to the drawings. In addition, the concepts and embodiments of the present invention presented in the present invention can be used by those of ordinary skill in the art as a basis for modifying or designing other structures in order to perform the same purpose of the present invention. , an equivalent structure modified or changed by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains is bound by the technical scope of the present invention described in the claims, and does not depart from the spirit or scope of the invention described in the claims. Various changes, substitutions and changes are possible within the limits.

Claims (5)

a homepage server that provides an import/export report information input interface for customs automation through the homepage;
Export/import report automation server that automatically performs import/export declaration;
a seller terminal accessing the customs automation homepage and inputting export/import report information through the interface; and
including a blockchain system for recording import and export declaration procedures;
When the import/export report information is input through the interface, the homepage server
Create a shipping document as a document file based on the inputted export/import report information,
Provides the seller terminal to download the generated shipping document document file,
Transmitting the entered export/import report information to the export/import report automation server,
When the export/import report automation server receives the export/import report information,
Verifies at least one of the import/export requirements and FTA conditions based on the received export/import declaration information;
to automatically perform customs-related procedures in the customs system;
characterized in that the information on the performed export/import report is stored in the block chain system,
Automated import/export declaration system.
The method of claim 1,
When the import/export declaration automation server receives a reply from the customs system that the performed import/export declaration has been accepted, characterized in that it delivers the result to the logistics system,
Automated import/export declaration system.
The method of claim 1,
Further comprising a buyer terminal requesting the seller terminal to input the import and export report information,
The buyer terminal requests a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for a predetermined import/export transaction to the homepage server,
The homepage server generates a URL corresponding to the predetermined import/export transaction and returns it to the purchaser terminal,
The URL is characterized in that the URL for providing the import/export report information input interface,
Automated import/export declaration system.
4. The method of claim 3,
The buyer terminal transmits the reply URL to the seller terminal,
The seller terminal, characterized in that it accesses the homepage server through the received URL,
Automated import/export declaration system.
The method of claim 1,
The generated document file is stored in a cloud server, characterized in that it is provided to the seller terminal and the buyer terminal in a downloadable state,
Automated import/export declaration system.

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