Solution Consulting

Choosing a Global Trade Management platform is a long, complex commitment, and most evaluation processes are steered by the vendors themselves. We give you an independent read—grounded in what these platforms actually do once they are live.

Solution Consulting & RFP Support

What it is

A structured advisory engagement that helps clients define Global Trade Management requirements, run a disciplined RFP, and select the platform that best fits their compliance, operations, and technology landscape. We guide trade, IT, and procurement stakeholders from current-state assessment through shortlist, evaluation, and final recommendation.

Independence Positioning

Our role is to protect your decision quality—structuring requirements, facilitating vendor engagement, and scoring options against your business case, not a product agenda. Platform recommendations are driven by fit to your use cases, risk profile, and operating model.

What we evaluate against

• Functional coverage across screening, export, import, duty/FTA/FTZ, customs filing, and trade content
• Compliance risk controls, auditability, and regulatory responsiveness
• Integration with ERP, WMS/TMS, brokers, carriers, and partner networks
• Total cost of ownership, implementation complexity, and time-to-value
• Scalability, configurability, and fit for your industry and trade lanes
• Vendor viability, roadmap, support model, and reference validation

Deliverables

• Requirements baseline and prioritized evaluation criteria
• RFP package (scope, use cases, scoring model, and response templates)
• Vendor shortlist and structured demonstration scripts
• Scorecards, gap analysis, and comparative recommendation
• Implementation considerations, risk register, and decision brief for leadership

Engagement Model

Typically delivered as a fixed-scope advisory project with defined workshops, vendor touchpoints, and decision milestones. We facilitate the process end to end—or support selected phases—working alongside your trade compliance, IT, procurement, and executive sponsors through final selection and handoff to implementation planning.