Global Trade Management Is Becoming a Real-Time Supply Chain Control System

Executive thesis. Global trade management is moving from compliance transaction processing toward real-time supply chain control. Trade rules now alter sourcing, routing, inventory, landed cost, and customer commitments before goods move.
Trade decisions now change network economics
Global trade management was once treated primarily as a compliance and documentation layer around cross-border transactions. That view is incomplete. Classification, origin, duties, sanctions, export controls, custom