How 14 Companies Navigate Trade Disruption and Save Millions

Before the network for trusted trade

• A Fortune 50 retailer had to comply with UFLPA and prove that its extensive product value chains contained no materials from China's Xinjiang region.
• Time-consuming manual supply chain mapping and costly isotopic testing did not offer scalable traceability for a large, complex global operation.

With the network for trusted trade

• Unlocked unprecedented visibility from Tier 1 brands on its store shelves to N-tier suppliers providing raw materials.
• Screened a massive base of potential suppliers, verifying forced labor compliance.
• Expanded supplier base while maintaining compliance standards and avoiding customs detentions and reputational harm.

Before the network for trusted trade

• Auto manufacturer had only seven days of stock in inventory, which would cause a production halt in the event of a UFLPA border detention.
• Limited visibility into product value chains comprised of thousand of components and hundreds of suppliers in high-risk sectors of steel, aluminum, and electronics.

With the network for trusted trade

• Established a robust verification process, with enhanced visibility deep into multi-tier value chains.
• Unlocked ability to screen new and existing suppliers against restricted party lists.
• Triaged high-risk suppliers, traced production origins of critical components, and accessed alternative supplier sourcing.
• Maintained manufacturing continuity and UFLPA compliance.

Before the network for trusted trade

• Existing supply chain solution was time-consuming and provided limited sub-tier visibility.
• Vetting a single potential supplier took weeks, slowing product development and sourcing decisions.
• Brand's business philosophy and public image emphasizes ethical sourcing — heightening public scrutiny and expectations.

With the network for trusted trade

• Traces connections through multi-tier value chains fast, illuminating sub-tier relationships to restricted regions or entities.
• Accelerated supplier onboarding and collaboration to practice proactive supplier sourcing and speed up product development.
• Protects brand reputation through enhanced, strategic decision-making when evaluating new regions for sourcing and responding to supply chain disruptions.

Before the network for trusted trade

• A top retailer had 47 shipments of the same product detained and released based on suspicion of forced labor with no clear communication from CBP.
• Delays cost $40 million in legal fees, storage, and lost sales, with an average delay of 45 days.
• The retailer shared comprehensive value chain information with CBP to release detained goods, but had no way to share information with CBP in advance of import.

With the network for trusted trade

• The retailer, Nobland, and CBP collaborated using an Altana Product Passport to share information about the product's value chain, which allowed CBP to pre-validate the shipment to be cleared at the border.
• Network collaboration enabled CBP to improve targeting, optimize resources, and streamline trade while enabling the retailer to ensure compliance, drive policy outcomes, and minimize disruptions.

Before the network for trusted trade

• Fortune 10 global automotive manufacturer spent 8 years mapping multi-tier supplier networks with a 20-person team.
• Achieving regulatory compliance amid increasing global trade regulations required comprehensive visibility into supplier networks.
• Traditional mapping methods were slow, costly, inaccurate, and couldn't address scale or complexity.

With the network for trusted trade

• Illuminated 400 sub-tier value chains in four weeks — doubling existing coverage.
• Integrated multiple data sources into centralized dashboard and transformed reactive, manual mapping processes into strategic business driver.
• Ensured compliance with UFLPA, EU Battery Regulation, Inflation Reduction Act, and more with fraction of time and effort.

Before the network for trusted trade

• Volatile tariff landscape increased costs by $500 million.
• Sub-tier nature tariff exposure across multi-tier value chains and suppliers made fully quantifying and mitigating risk impossible.

With the network for trusted trade

• Pinpointed exposure down to shipment level, giving a clear view of tariffs' impact on component and product costs.
• Identified high-risk suppliers and quantified impact by cost.
• Gained ability to quickly search for qualified suppliers outside of affected trade lanes — discovering more than $50 million in savings.

Before the network for trusted trade

• Flooring industry faces intense UFLPA scrutiny due to up to 10% of global Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) originating from Xinjiang, China.
• In 2023 alone, $62.5 million worth of vinyl flooring was detained under UFLPA violations.
• As a major luxury vinyl retailer, this national flooring company faced significant supply chain risk and needed immediate action to avoid costly detentions.

With the network for trusted trade

• Transformed their supply chain by vetting suppliers, onboarding new vendors, and avoiding detentions.
• Strategically disengaged from suppliers who posed risks to their business continuity.
• Mapped and monitored their entire value chain, identified forced labor risks with unprecedented precision.

Before the network for trusted trade

• Historically opaque supply chains made demonstrating UFLPA compliance impossible for major chemicals manufacturer; lack of upstream visibility threatened other compliance violations.
• Received frequent requests to verify products' compliance from customers they could not answer.
• Forced to regularly onboard suppliers without visibility or assurance of compliance.

With the network for trusted trade

• Unlocked dynamic, multi-tier value chain visibility for core products; populated three-tier value chains for 54 high-risk suppliers in two weeks; expanded to five tiers within 90 days.
• Accomplished rapid compliance certification and supplier screening while redistributing business from risky to trusted suppliers.
• Built a culture of compliance internally. Now sources pre-screen suppliers through internal team, providing validation that every supplier is compliant upon end customer request.

Before the network for trusted trade

• Faced severe disruptions following the Fukushima reactor meltdown, including a delayed product launch. Discovered most of their Tier 1 suppliers depended on single sources within the disaster radius.
• Spent 10+ years searching for a solution to deliver visibility into critical points of failure (POFs) deep within their supply network.

With the network for trusted trade

• Leveraged a custom, comprehensive bottleneck-analysis tool that evaluated sub-suppliers.
• Accessed unprecedented supply chain intelligence through advanced share of supply analytics, split by granular material sub-categories.
• Gained complete visibility into hidden vulnerabilities, enabling them to proactively address critical bottlenecks before they could disrupt operations.
• Identified $22 million in potential tariff savings on input goods eligible for USMCA.

Before the network for trusted trade

• Defense contractor working across hundreds of transportation hubs faced escalating supplier risks and had limited sub-tier visibility.
• The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse and other unexpected disruptions exposed hidden, single-point-of-failure vulnerabilities across multi-tier supply routes.
• Looming labor action threatened cascading supply chain disruptions — necessitating full sub-tier visibility into suppliers and materials.

With the network for trusted trade

• Gained full sub-tier visibility and developed a port-flow risk dashboard based on product-level data, modeling supplier flows through union-operated ports to identify affected suppliers.
• Enabled four strategic resilience approaches: supplier diversification, event-based risk alerts, network analysis, and smart inventory planning.
• Equipped business continuity teams to prioritize mitigation actions and offset penalties tied to missed uptime targets.

Before the network for trusted trade

• Leading e-commerce company processing millions of daily shipments needed to correct HS classifications while complying with global regulations.
• Existing manual processes created bottlenecks, consumed enormous labor resources, and increased the risk of compliance violations.
• Overwhelmed by requirement to generate precise classifications while simultaneously maintaining compliance across multiple regulatory environments.

With the network for trusted trade

• Accurately and automatically classified individual shipments at the line item level with Altana's AI-driven HS classification models.
• Streamlined workflows and enabled the company to target resources toward cases where human expertise was most needed.
• Secured global compliance across tariff and phytosanitary regimes.

Before the network for trusted trade

• U.S.-origin electronics were discovered in Russian weapons, but government agencies could not determine a path explaining how they arrived.
• Complex value chains spread out across opaque global trade routes made investigation difficult using existing methods.
• Investigators needed a new way to uncover the networks enabling sanctioned entities to acquire restricted technologies.

With the network for trusted trade

• Mapped trade patterns from known bad actors and surfaced hidden intermediaries facilitating illicit flows.
• Analyzed global transaction data to reveal new entities of interest and evasion tactics, such as Russian companies shifting purchasing to Far East suppliers.
• Enabled intelligence sharing with partners and allies, broadening enforcement reach across the sanctions ecosystem.

Before the network for trusted trade

• Russia continues acquiring export-controlled Western electronics for drones and weapons.

With the network for trusted trade

• Altana's network monitors Russia's evolving supply chains, tracking granular part numbers, product specifications, and producer origins.
• Analysts uncovered hidden trade routes, tracing 323 shipments of microchips and semiconductors from the U.S. through India to Russian drone manufacturers.

Before the network for trusted trade

• Fortune 500 manufacturer lacked value chain visibility beyond Tier 1, and had to comply with expansive Norwegian forced labor regulation that required due diligence for Tier 1 to Tier N suppliers.
• Getting sub-tier value chain visibility would cost hundreds of hours of manual value chain mapping, with existing solution failing to deliver a dynamic, central source-of-record for suppliers' compliance history.

With the network for trusted trade

• Achieved sub-tier visibility and ability to screen suppliers at scale.
• Accessed information on specific product lines and suppliers, slashing time and effort required for compliance and due diligence reporting.
• Streamlined compliance for EUDR and other regulatory frameworks.
• Enjoy a central, collaborative source of truth for value chain information and management that is built on specific product value chains.