Caterpillar & Altana

Tariff Certainty: Altana solves compliance and resilience with one scalable system

End the reliance on non-scalable tariff solutions and insufficient visibility. Altana provides the critical capabilities to identify tariff impacts, qualify alternate suppliers, and achieve compliance requirements, all within one platform.

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Measurable Impact & Cost Savings

Altana helps turn tariff & supply chain clarity into profitable action.

$500 Million Potential tariff-related costs uncovered before implementing Altana

346 Newly uncovered suppliers subject to tariffs on China

$4.2 Billion Amount of at-risk supplier spend uncovered due to tariff exposure across multi-tier value chains

Collaborate with key suppliers at scale

Altana’s Product Passports deliver the verified, Nth-tier data Caterpillar needs to move beyond simple risk monitoring and into trusted trade. Tap into Altana’s product network to provide the scalable solution you need to accurately identify tariff impacts and alternative suppliers across all value chains.

Expedited Clearance via Altana Product Passports

Altana Product Passports are a shareable, digital record of a product's origin story, built to streamline customs clearance with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and reward trusted traders.

Product Passports: How they work

1. Build your catalog
Easily create a unified catalog of your products with Altana's AI. Upload your bills of materials and supplier data, and our AI standardizes everything into a single, shareable format.
2. Trace your value chains
Our AI-powered network helps you illuminate your multi-tier supply chain, suggesting connections and highlighting potential risks. Collaborate with your suppliers directly within the platform to build a verified, end-to-end view of your product's journey — from raw material origin to finished goods.
3. Collaborate with regulators
Securely share your verified Product Passports with regulators like U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) before your goods ship. This proactive approach enables pre-validation of compliance, ensuring a smoother, faster customs clearance process.

The Wall Street Journal

Major manufacturer taps Altana to help offset $500 million in tariff costs

Effective supply chain management is a critical lever for profitability. Leading manufacturers are now leveraging AI-powered data to unlock efficiencies and yield substantial cost savings.

Discovered 346 newly uncovered suppliers subject to tariffs on China
Uncovered $4.2B at-risk supplier spend
Realized an immediate $50M in savings related to tariffs

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Case Study

Transforming supply chain compliance through AI-powered multi-tier visibility

A Fortune 10 automaker spent years mapping its vast supplier networks, only to face slow, incomplete results. With Altana’s product network, the company unlocked deep sub-tier visibility, streamlined compliance, and turned supply chain mapping into a strategic advantage.

Illuminated 400 sub-tier value chains in four weeks — doubling existing coverage.
Integrated multiple data sources into centralized dashboard, streamlining manual mapping.
Ensured compliance with UFLPA, EU Battery Regulation, Inflation Reduction Act, and more.

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Reveal Hidden Risks

Uncover Nth-tier risk to build resilience and protect revenue

Altana empowers businesses to discover and qualify suppliers with unmatched supply chain intelligence. Instantly screen millions of companies for sustainability, compliance, and resilience to source with confidence and reduce risk.

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Highlighted Features

Limit geopolitical risk and exposure to forced labor
Reduce reliance on sole-sourced suppliers and facilities
Balance inventory strategy to your known risk

Testimonials

Hear what the community is saying about the only product network

“Compliant value chains don’t exist in isolation. Altana and Maersk ensure our customers can harness the power of trusted supply and distribution networks — no matter where they operate.”

Lars Karlsson,

Global Head of Trade & Customs Consulting, Maersk

Lars Karlsson,

Global Head of Trade & Customs Consulting, Maersk

“With Altana, we understand how changes in the regulatory and competitive landscape will affect our business. More importantly, Altana enables us to plan a dynamic strategy to grow our business and better serve our customers in a tumultuous trade environment.”

Eileen Smythe,

Vice President of Supply Chain, Arkema

Eileen Smythe,

Vice President of Supply Chain, Arkema

"Amid tariffs and trade disruption, Altana’s product network gives us the visibility, traceability, and collaboration to know that we are sourcing from the best partners."

Brendan Connallon,

VP of Finance, EQI

Brendan Connallon,

VP of Finance, EQI

“We’ve spent decades inventing, innovating, and delivering disruptive new defense technologies in support of the United States and its allies. We selected Altana because we need a trusted partner to help us reveal and manage our upstream value chains, ensure secure and compliant sourcing, and expand our technology capabilities across the world.”

Charles McVicker,

Vice President of Supply Chain, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

Charles McVicker,

Vice President of Supply Chain, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

“We chose Altana to help us understand, monitor, and improve the resilience of our multi-tier value chains in this volatile geopolitical and regulatory environment."

Mark Blake,

Former Manager, Customs & Trade, L.L.Bean

Mark Blake,

Former Manager, Customs & Trade, L.L.Bean

"Altana helped us rank companies by forced labor exposure, improving UFLPA enforcement and enabling significant targeting of Xinjiang-based companies.”

U.S. Law Enforcement Investigator