(03-12-2019, 01:53 PM)Beano Wrote: [ -> ] (03-09-2019, 11:55 AM)chasetownbaggie Wrote: [ -> ]Less than 3 weeks to go. I haven't had a week at work like this for several years. Stress levels peaked Thursday. We're into our Brexit test window and not everything is ready for testing. Not good if you've already shortened your test window from what it normally would be. We still don't know what to do with open orders on 29th March.
Anyone else doing preps?
What kind of preps Chasetown?
We both buy from and sell to mainland Europe, frankly other than exchange rate meltdowns I'm pretty much
getting on with business as normal. Being honest my main concern at the moment is trucks being delayed by
the sea conditions rather than any brexit related issue.
We've had to change some settings in our system and the system is being tested in case it causes any issues. Biggest concern for some was triangulation but they system seems to have coped with all scenarios except one. Had to check for impacts on output documents, particularly those that accompany shipments to the EU. I think some work has been done on tax codes, but that's not my area, I'm a developer. I've been working on software to tighten up on capturing Country of Origin on products that we ship to make sure nothing gets held up in port for non-compliance (our catalgoue contains over 6m products and we ship hundreds of orders to the EU every day). I'm impatiently waiting to find out how many open orders we have, because it's my understanding they'll have to be changed the day after we leave the EU and I reckon they'll have way more than they thought.
IIRC Beano, aren't you in the same line as me (SAP) ?
10 days to go. Anyone concerned? We're starting go-live prep tomorrow, establishing a plan of activities to be carried out before and after 11pm next Friday night.
Still only me?
(03-12-2019, 08:56 PM)chasetownbaggie Wrote: [ -> ] (03-12-2019, 01:53 PM)Beano Wrote: [ -> ] (03-09-2019, 11:55 AM)chasetownbaggie Wrote: [ -> ]Less than 3 weeks to go. I haven't had a week at work like this for several years. Stress levels peaked Thursday. We're into our Brexit test window and not everything is ready for testing. Not good if you've already shortened your test window from what it normally would be. We still don't know what to do with open orders on 29th March.
Anyone else doing preps?
What kind of preps Chasetown?
We both buy from and sell to mainland Europe, frankly other than exchange rate meltdowns I'm pretty much
getting on with business as normal. Being honest my main concern at the moment is trucks being delayed by
the sea conditions rather than any brexit related issue.
We've had to change some settings in our system and the system is being tested in case it causes any issues. Biggest concern for some was triangulation but they system seems to have coped with all scenarios except one. Had to check for impacts on output documents, particularly those that accompany shipments to the EU. I think some work has been done on tax codes, but that's not my area, I'm a developer. I've been working on software to tighten up on capturing Country of Origin on products that we ship to make sure nothing gets held up in port for non-compliance (our catalgoue contains over 6m products and we ship hundreds of orders to the EU every day). I'm impatiently waiting to find out how many open orders we have, because it's my understanding they'll have to be changed the day after we leave the EU and I reckon they'll have way more than they thought.
IIRC Beano, aren't you in the same line as me (SAP) ?
It's not tax codes, probably, it's Commodity Codes classification for declarations - most folk trading with the EU have never had to consider them, or valuation (which is discipline on its own....), never mind country of origin.....
On the technical side, I was grimly amused by the notes from a rep on industry side at the Joint Customs Consultative Group with HMRC held yesterday:
"Tariffs and Quotas:
The HMRC rep just read out the notices that are on the .gov website and had no answers to the trade questions."
"The stock answer to most trade questions was “I don’t know we will take that away and come back to you”. "
I had to sort out customs procedure code issue for one of my own trade bodies today - the member's techiies were pulling their hair out!
Que sera....
I'm not getting wound up about it.
(03-19-2019, 05:40 PM)chasetownbaggie Wrote: [ -> ]10 days to go. Anyone concerned? We're starting go-live prep tomorrow, establishing a plan of activities to be carried out before and after 11pm next Friday night.
Still only me?
I have nothing I can plan for, it's all out of my hands. All I can do is scream into my pillow.
(03-19-2019, 07:23 PM)Borin\ Baggie Wrote: [ -> ] (03-19-2019, 05:40 PM)chasetownbaggie Wrote: [ -> ]10 days to go. Anyone concerned? We're starting go-live prep tomorrow, establishing a plan of activities to be carried out before and after 11pm next Friday night.
Still only me?
I have nothing I can plan for, it's all out of my hands. All I can do is scream into my pillow.
I'm hoping for no deal and Britain turning into a scene from The Hunger Games.
A week to go and I've been asked to work the weekend because, despite last night's events, there's an opinion that 29th March is still enshrined in UK and EU law so requires a vote next week to change that. So we are still working to the assumption that we are leaving next week.
I've barely had time to register last night yet, so no idea if this is correct.
(03-22-2019, 06:58 PM)chasetownbaggie Wrote: [ -> ]A week to go and I've been asked to work the weekend because, despite last night's events, there's an opinion that 29th March is still enshrined in UK and EU law so requires a vote next week to change that. So we are still working to the assumption that we are leaving next week.
I've barely had time to register last night yet, so no idea if this is correct.
The whole thing is like watching someone obsessed with climbing a fence when there is a gate open round the corner.
Finally voted on moving the date last night. Thank fugg for that, we (company I work for) wouldn't have been ready by tomorrow night. I've been working beyond midnight on a few occasions this past week and a half. Knackered - and for what?
Re-set me countdown clock now. 15 days to go.
(03-22-2019, 08:08 PM)HeathAyIt Wrote: [ -> ] (03-22-2019, 06:58 PM)chasetownbaggie Wrote: [ -> ]A week to go and I've been asked to work the weekend because, despite last night's events, there's an opinion that 29th March is still enshrined in UK and EU law so requires a vote next week to change that. So we are still working to the assumption that we are leaving next week.
I've barely had time to register last night yet, so no idea if this is correct.
The whole thing is like watching someone obsessed with climbing a fence when there is a gate open round the corner.
