Shipment Approval Management

A natural extension to our proven supply chain event management system and services, ClearTrack offers complete Shipment Approval Management technology tools allowing our clients and their trading partners to seamlessly collaborate on pre-shipment activities, automatically monitor fulfillment of necessary business events and electronically distribute authorization notices to the assigned trading partners.

ClearTrack’s Shipment Approval Management (SAM) application empowers retail clients to gain control of numerous and often complicated business workflows required to monitor and measure “approve to ship” activities including:

Shipment Approval Management and Collaboration

Automated collection, monitoring, measurement and electronic distribution of shipment approval documents to associated product vendors, factory contacts, freight forwarders and customs brokers.

Online management tool allowing review of purchase orders with detailed status for each dependent business event and system generated recommendations for shipments eligible for approval issuance.

Reporting tools including industry tailored practice reports, key performance indicators (KPI) and report writer “ad hoc capabilities”.

Automated alert notification capability for out of tolerance and key event monitoring activities. Complete data management services provide an on-demand, hosted solution.

Quality and Social Compliance Management

Automated collection, monitoring and measurement of product quality assurance and social accountability compliance management activities including factory audits, order inspections and lab tests. Quality assurance and social compliance statuses are applied to each associated purchase order to support shipment approval issuance processing.

Product Liability Insurance Management

Online collection, monitoring and measurement of product liability insurance (“PLI”) certification receipt. PLI certification information are applied to each associated purchase order, purchase order and item no. (SKU), or for all product sourced from a particular vendor to support shipment approval issuance processing.

Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Management

Automated collection, monitoring and measurement of C-TPAT certification events as submitted by a client’s customs brokers. The C-TPAT survey and certification receipt information are applied to each factory location associated with an open purchase order pending shipment approval issuance processing.

Supplier Agreement Management

Online collection, monitoring and measurement of supplier agreement receipt events. The supplier agreement receipt event information is applied to each product sourced from a particular vendor to support shipment approval issuance processing.

Product Sample Approval Management

Online collection, monitoring and measurement of product sample approval receipt events. The product sample approval receipt event information is applied to each product sourced from a particular vendor to support shipment approval issuance processing.

Factory and Vendor Contact Management

Online collection and maintenance of factory and vendor resource contacts with the ability to assign receipt eligibility for electronic shipment approval notifications.