Katherine Hintz

It’s Monday morning. A shipment of specialized components is headed to an aerospace OEM when your screening workflow flags a potential “denied-party match” on one supplier. Now you’re digging into records, cross-referencing databases, and your carrier is waiting. If the match is false, the shipment stalls anyway, the team burns time on triage, and the customer’s production line waits. The issue with due diligence screening: is how to keep it from grinding your shipping operation to a halt. The problem: compliance steps that slow shipments In global trade, compliance screening is non-negotiable. Denied-party screening, export controls, trade restrictions—regulations have teeth, and they’re tightening in aerospace, defense, high-tech, medical devices, and telecom. But many teams still screen shipments the hard way: manually, ad-hoc, and late in the fulfillment cycle. The friction is predictable, especially when a shipper verifies a partner’s name against screening lists manually. They get false positives: names that match sanctioned entities but aren’t actually them. A supplier named “Chen Technologies” gets flagged because “Chen” appears on an export-control list. Now your team can’t tell quickly whether this is a real hit. Escalations pile up, shipments stop moving, and your compliance team drowns in tickets. Three patterns of an…

Stay up to date on all the latest conversations, interviews, and episodes we released this week here at Supply Chain Now. On Monday’s episode of Supply Chain Now, Scott Luton and Greg White discuss the U.S. Bank 2021 Q2 Freight Payment Index with Bobby Holland of U.S. Bank & John Janson with Sanmar. On This Week in Business History, Kelly Barner shares the best and most interesting bits of historical business trivia, all occurring during the first week in August. We also released an episode of Supply Chain Now en Español with Enrique Alvarez and Demo Perez featuring Felisa Preciado. On Tuesday we released another Logistics With Purpose episode! Hosts Enrique Alvarez and Kristi Porter welcomed Alice Brown with GoodSteps to the show. Another show that was in the mix this week was TECHquila Sunrise with Greg White. This is the 2nd part of a great conversation with RateLinx CEO Shannon Vaillancourt, where they discussed 3 Keys to turn supply chain visibility into action. On Wednesday, Tim Nelson with Hope for Justice joined Scott Luton and Greg White. They discussed their noble efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking in the supply chain throughout the world. On Thursday, we released…