ClearView Trade is a market leading solution for export document management in the wholesale industry
Industry trends
Vulnerabilities and future trends
Challenges:
Suppliers are finding ways to avoid splitting margins with the distributor and building direct relationships with their customers
- Inability to meet the ever-increasing customer expectations for delivering end-to-end supply chain visibility, omnichannel fulfillment, 24/7 customer service, order tracking, and real-time inventory management
Technology-driven new entrants such as Amazon Business and eBay are disrupting the status quo in wholesale distribution, noticeably accelerating the competitive intensity
The biggest disruptors are the “digital leaders” who are ahead in their technology maturity and big-box retailers looking to expand their share of the customer wallet
Trends:
Exploring e-commerce as a strategic lever for improving sales and customer service
Adding new capabilities through targeted acquisitions or divesting misaligned areas of the business
Leveraging data science and analytics to better support organization-wide decision making
Identifying new methods for recruiting, sourcing, and training to best familiarize their workers with the advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and automation
Building strategic agility and flexibility into their supply chains
Expanding international trade to offset the impact of China and gradually develop alternate global sources
Focusing on efficient warehouse management and ecosystem integration
Key Challenges
Wholesale Distribution Industry
Considerations for companies:
- The industry is under major disruption due to factors ranging from China tariffs, rising shipping costs, the growth of e-commerce, and the increasing desire of manufacturers and retailers to completely bypass the wholesale distribution channel and instead do business directly with each other under a “Direct to Consumer” (D2C) business model
- Faced with these myriad disruptive forces, the industry is aggressively embracing technology – for data-driven decision-making, more agile supply chain management, better overall visibility, and differentiating customer experiences – in order to thrive
- From the data and application integration perspective too, which is a critical enabling technology in all this, there is also an expanding role of APIs for streamlining the wholesale distribution ecosystem to rapidly create significant economic value as the entire industry undergoes rapid digital transformation
(Mahesh Rajasekharan)
How to solve Industry challenges with ClearView Trade solution
Historically, our platform has helped customers reduce number of failed shipments by 50%
Customer Cases – Wholesale
CUSTOMER CASE #1
International supplier of aluminium solutions
Was looking for ways to cut the lead time of shipments and export documents
Export documents represented a bottleneck as the shipment was waiting for return of legalized documents
No transparency in transport status, due to use of multiple forwarders
Outsourced custom reporting was time consuming and often noncompliant
Certificates were picked up by a local currier and returned the following day
Significant cuts in document lead time
- Improved efficiency (eliminate re-entering of data, manual document handling)
- Business Transparency and Company Compliance
- End to end digitalization of export document workflow
- Confirmation on POD (Secure closing of T1 & T2 documents, Digital signed CMR)
- Risk management (provide Company Control Tower)
- Data security (digital secure workflow and back-up, File Folder archiving)
Now export documents are available immediately
Automated booking process with carrier
Automated E-export application and approval directly to customs
Transparency due to file folder overview for team members including list view of certificates

CUSTOMER CASE #2
Global supplier of different food products
Was looking for ways to cut the lead time of export documents
- Export documents represented a bottleneck as the shipment was waiting for return of legalized documents
- Certificates were picked up by a local currier and returned the following day
- Customs reporting was time consuming
Significant cuts in document lead time
- Now export documents are available same day
- Certificate of Origin is generated automatically
- Transparency of processes for all team members
- Customs reporting is automated
- Error rate is reduced, ensuring compliance

CUSTOMER CASE #3
A trading company in the food industry
Was looking for ways to cut the lead time of export documents
- Export documents represented a bottleneck as the shipment was waiting for return of legalized documents
- Difficult to ensure compliance due to ever changing certificate requirements
- Many manual data collection processes
- Certificates were picked up by a local currier and returned the following day
Significant cuts in document lead time
- The process of Health Certificates is fully automized, ensuring compliance
- Error rate reduced to practically “0%”
- Now export documents are available same day
Simplified custom reporting
- Transparency to all team members across all departments and locations

Learn about other industries
The Danish authorized Chambers have chosen to work with us
All our solutions are based on open standards (UBL and UNCEFACT) and a secure public infrastructure (PEPPOL).
ClearView Trade has been heading the OASIS UBL transportation Subcommittee in connection with ISO 204 (intelligent logistics).
Digital community:
Large international network with sister organizations and embassies around the world and offices in both Denmark and Brussels
- Digital service for all export companies:
- 85 % of danish exports
- 4000 clients and 6000 users
We are collaborating with the Agency For Digitization under the Danish Ministry of Finance to develop digital standards for trade and logistics within PEPPOL, meaning we are 3-4 years ahead for other markets and competitors.
(3-4 year ahead for other markets and competitors)
Endorsed partnership:
Certificate service accredited by the ICC providing:
- Endorsement and legalization of Trade Invoices, Health Certificates, Packing lists, Contracts, Price lists & other
- Digital issuing of COO, EUR 1, ATR and ATA Carnet
- Two-factor authentication, digital stamp and signature
Membership activities and services including
- Support and counseling on industry specific legal affairs, business law, customs rules, etc.


