CASSANDRA: Common Assessment and Analysis of Risk in Global Supply Chains

CASSANDRA’s strategic goal is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of cross border inspections as well as to improve supply chain visibility and business execu-tion. Currently, government authorities perform risk assessments using the tradi-tional Transaction Based Audit (TBA) approach. Each cross-border trade transaction is thus inspected individually, based on declaration data submitted to authorities (‘data push’). CASSANDRA aims to bring the Risk Based Audit (RBA) approach to the next level. This RBA identifies secure and known container flows, based on System Based Auditing (SBA). In the SBA, government authorities use data and risk assess-ment of businesses for their own risk assessment.