Confronting Core Global Trade Problems: Order, Shipment, and Financial Settlement
P.J. Jakovljevic - June 7, 2005

More Examples of TradeBeam's GTM Solution Blueprints

To reach its aspirations of creating an end-to-end global trade management (GTM) solution, TradeBeam, a leading provider of global trade solutions, has designed several so-called "solution blueprints" for solving specific global trade issues. Solutions range from providing import shipment visibility and trade compliance to eliminating financial discrepancies while managing letters of credit (LC). TradeBeam's Solution Blueprints begin with the key pain points of global trade and identify tools and strategies available to corporations seeking the advantages of optimized GTM. They include a non-prescriptive set of GTM applications that, individually, may add significant value to a user corporation while solving specific export management problems. The idea is to align strategies with finance and logistics organizations and to establish a beachhead with a relatively quick proof of concept that starts automating a defined set of processes and provides payback in several months. Given that the GTM market is still relatively new, TradeBeam has done an impressive job establishing itself as a pioneer...