Trade Planner

Global businesses today are expanding global distribution to power top line growth through exports and continuing to refine low-cost country sourcing strategies to reduce costs.

To support these business strategies, your global supply chain team needs to continually evaluate the costs and risks associated with your sourcing and distribution decisions but are typically challenged by:

	▪	Purchasing departments that make sourcing decisions based on product invoice alone
	▪	Logistics departments that can not easily compare or calculate the total landed costs by groups of products and multiple origins and destinations
	▪	Fulfillment departments that do not understand the landed cost impact of exporting goods from alternative distribution centers
	▪	Planning teams that do not properly incorporate the risks associated with regulatory controls when developing new sourcing and distribution strategies

Management Dynamics' Trade Planner addresses these challenges by providing detailed analyses and graphical comparisons of international shipping options based on total landed cost and export and import regulations, from one origin to multiple destinations or from multiple origins to one destination.

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The extended supply chain team can develop better sourcing and distribution strategies using Trade Planner with the following capabilities:

	▪	Streamline the product classification process with sophisticated searching and mapping tools and accessing Management Dynamics’ extensive repository of global trade content
	▪	Store product classification for multiple countries in an easy-to-use global product master
	▪	Build sourcing and distribution analyses and store as scenarios or export to Microsoft Excel
	▪	Compare total landed costs for sourcing from one origin to multiple destinations including precise results for all duties and taxes calculated along with applicable tax formulas

	▪	Identify product-specific barriers to importing such as anti-dumping duty, licenses, permits, quotas and visa restrictions
	▪	Compare total landed costs for distributing from multiple origins to one destination including precise results for all duties and taxes are calculated along with applicable tax formulas
	▪	Identify specific barriers to exporting such as absolute embargoes, prohibitions or license requirements
	▪	Share planning tools and results with a secure, Web-based solution

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LIBRARY
WEBINARS
NEWS

▪	Trade Planner Brochure

▪	Global Trade Content Brochure

▪	Trade Wizards Brochure

▪	White Paper: On Demand Trade Content Tools

▪	Restricted Party Screening On-Demand

▪	Export On-Demand Brochure

▪	White Paper: Automating the Import Supply Chain

▪	Product Tour: Trade Planner

▪	Product Tour: Trade Wizards (US Based Shippers)

▪	Product Tour: Trade Wizards (Internationally Based Shippers)

▪	Product Tour: RPS On-Demand

▪	Shippers Sign Up for Monitor Software International Freighting Weekly

▪	Hidden Headaches Journal of Commerce

▪	Getting a Handle on Trade Journal of Commerce

▪	Taking Control of the Supply Chain Exporting World


▪	Product Classification
▪	Standard Product Master
▪	Scenario Builder
▪	Distribution Analysis
▪	Sourcing Analysis
▪	Scenario Manager
▪	Trade Content for Planner (122 Countries)
▪	Landed Cost Analysis


▪	Get everyone on the same page - Purchasing, Logistics and Distribution - to truly optimize landed costs
▪	Accurately asses the risks of sourcing or distribution decisions based on prevailing regulatory controls
▪	Reduce the time to analyze and plan and reopen and test scenarios as market conditions change
▪	Download scenarios to Excel to perform more complex calculations




"Management Dynamics’ Trade Portal solution helps us automate the workflow between suppliers and the shipment creation process – from point of purchase order, all the way through pre-customs entry – enabling us to centralize and streamline our global procurement process." John Wainwright, Vice President Customs Compliance, Leggett & Platt