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- Trade Compliance
- Who it's for
- Industrial distributors
Industrial distributors
A distributor may receive orders for similar goods through several legal entities. The assessment identifies the organization and counterparty in scope, while each export review keeps its destination, shipment value and license reference. That context helps a reviewer distinguish two otherwise similar transactions.
How Trade Compliance is set up for you
Scope each case
Record the organization, counterparty and period on the assessment before testing.
Keep control context
Link scored risks to controls, then tests to the control actually examined.
Preserve the decision
Keep reviewer reason, revision and supporting evidence connected.
A distributor may receive orders for similar goods through several legal entities. The assessment identifies the organization and counterparty in scope, while each export review keeps its destination, shipment value and license reference. That context helps a reviewer distinguish two otherwise similar transactions.
Start with a single entity and a small set of counterparties whose identifiers are stable. Agree who maintains eligibility notes and which official source supplies screening and license evidence. Rehearse a returned review when the source reference changes, then confirm that the revised decision retains its reason.
The pilot should include an ordinary case and an exception. For the exception, ask the Control Owner to show the failed result and its evidence reference. Give the action owner a due date, then have a separate reviewer inspect the retest. For the export case, use a destination and a license reference that the reviewer can reconcile with the organization's designated source. A status alone is not enough to explain either decision.
Agree the handoff before adding more teams: who maintains counterparty data, who owns controls, who supplies official determination evidence and who records the final decision. Reconcile the authorized attachment visibility with those assignments. When a reviewer returns a record, its owner needs to see the reason and the exact revision that was examined.
[Plan the first cycle](/trade-compliance/implementation) and [inspect the records](/trade-compliance/data-model).
Features to start with
Roles on the team
- Independent Assurance Reviewer
- Review eligible revisions independently and reconcile operational evidence.
- Auditor
- Read authorized evidence and reports.
- Control Owner
- Prepare assigned operational records and execute eligible reviewed actions.
- App Administrator
- Maintain organization configuration and membership.
Set up Trade Compliance your way.
Start free, then use Proto to change fields, steps and approvals before your team goes live.