Supply Chain Success story
Land Rover takes an easier route to ensuring supply chain security
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hipping vehicles and parts around the world to a diverse range of customers – including the military and humanitarian organisations – can often be as
challenging as the environments the vehicles were designed to operate in. Further to the basic shipping requirements, Land Rover also needs to be confident that its trading partners can be trusted and do not appear on any denied party lists.
To meet its requirements for accurate and thorough checking of lists via an easy-to-use software package, Land Rover decided to turn to AEB for a ready-made Software as a Service solution. Compliance||Xpress is a service offered by AEB which allows companies to check business partner addresses against official denied-party lists in a fast and effective way. The service provides an easy way for companies to handle the challenges posed by anti-terrorism legislation governing foreign trade.
Due to the increased emphasis on security in the supply chain, companies need to be responsible for their own compliance with these rules and restrictions. Government agencies
around the world have published lists of individuals, companies
and organisations they believe to be engaged in terrorist activities. Some of these lists run to hundreds of pages and so paper-based checks
“ Easily accessible via an Internet
browser, the software is now in use by Land Rover worldwide and sales staff as far afield as South Africa and the United States can make checks quickly and easily. By keying in the name and address details of a business or individual and they are instantly able to find out whether that party is on a denied-party list or not.”
are a very time-consuming process that is potentially open to error.
AEB’s cost-effective solution ensures that all partners in the business process can be
checked against the key UK, EU, and US denied-party lists such as the
Denied Persons List and the Specially Designated
Nationals and Blocked Persons list of the Office of Foreign Asset Controls.
Used worldwide
Easily accessible via an Internet browser, the software is now in use by Land Rover worldwide and sales staff as far afield as South Africa and the United States can make checks quickly and easily. By keying in the name and address details of a business or individual and they are instantly able to find out whether that party is on a denied-party list or not. Compliance administrators are automatically notified by e-mail of any potential matches with denied-parties on any of the lists.
Although the software is easy to use there are a lot of complex processes taking place in the background to ensure the lists are checked thoroughly and accurately. The system employs fuzzy logic algorithms, phonetic agents (which enable recognition of similar-sounding words such as Stephenson and Stevenson), letter case analysers (comparing lowercase and uppercase words) and abbreviation profilers to ensure that nothing slips through the net.
Ensuring regulatory compliance
Hannah Beckett – AEB sales representative and key contact for Land Rover, said: “Compliance||Xpress is a great way in which companies can very quickly and effectively ensure regulatory compliance. It usually just takes a few days from the customer placing the order to them being up and running with the solution. I’m really pleased that Land Rover has found the software effective and is now using it around the world.”
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