United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection (APHIS) Case Study
EDS Helps Protect U.S. Agriculture
To help ensure the nation's booming agri-economy, EDS developed a robust Web application for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The best-in-class solution now lets companies manage export certificates and inspections online via automated processes while delivering better workload management, enhanced reporting capabilities and increased data storage for the federal agency. The USDA APHIS has issued more than 3 million federal certificates since 2001, enabling the export of $50 billion in U.S. agricultural commodities.
With issuance growing by 10 percent annually, the agency projects that the system will soon be processing 500,000 certificates a year. Improved management and standardization of the export certificate issuance process has reduced fraud, improved export policy compliance and enhanced service to the agriculture industry. Thanks to its automated data collection and tracking system, the government is now equipped to manage expansions in trade.
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