In modern manufacturing and distribution, speed is everything. But speed without control? That’s a major risk no business can afford.
Geopolitical tensions, trade issues and evolving sanctions are shaping – and re-shaping – the global supply chain landscape. In the past year alone, thousands of new entities and individuals have been added to restricted and denied party lists across major markets. For businesses that move product, materials and data across borders, the risk of working with newly sanctioned trading partners has never been greater – or more difficult to monitor.
This is largely because many companies continue to rely on manual or scheduled batch screenings. By the time a compliance team realizes that a supplier or logistics provider has been added to a restricted party list, the shipment is already on its way, and the cost of non-compliance is already adding up.
In today’s connected landscape, global trade moves in real time. Compliance can’t be left behind.
The Challenge: Manual Screening in a Real-Time World
Traditional screening tools weren’t designed for the speed of modern trade. They rely on static lists, disconnected systems and human support. For organizations managing thousands of customers, suppliers and shipping partners, yesterday’s approach is too slow, error-prone and risky.
As you’ve likely experienced firsthand, a trading partner that was compliant yesterday might not be today, and when every shipment, invoice and payment is time-sensitive, just one oversight can ripple throughout the supply chain – and your operations.
What’s more, sanctions and trade restrictions have grown exponentially in volume and complexity over the past decade alone. Manufacturers and distributors with global operations now face hundreds of new updates each month – far beyond what manual compliance teams can track.
At the same time, digital transformation has moved every other business function toward real-time intelligence. Why is compliance lagging behind?
The Solution: Proactive, Real-Time Screening
Modern supply chains are facing a major challenge: global trade is changing faster than the systems built to manage it. Static databases, manual checks and batch jobs might’ve worked well once, but they were built for a simpler time.
That’s why we developed QAD Restricted Party Screening (RPS) – a smarter, adaptive approach to compliance built for today’s connected supply chains.
Delivered as a multi-tenant, cloud-based web service, QAD RPS continuously screens trading partners against global watchlists and updates in real time as new data is published. There’s nothing to install or configure, and no manual process to maintain.
Instead, RPS operates quietly in the background; a safeguard that keeps every transaction, shipment and supplier interaction compliant before it becomes a risk.
