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May 7, 2021
This Week In Supply Chain Now: May 3rd – 7th
Listen up! We’re kicking May off with some great conversations you won’t want to miss. Take a look back on the latest episodes, interviews, conversations, and livestreams from this week right here. On Monday, we released 3 new episodes! In this episode of Supply Chain Now, Scott welcomes JD Redmon back to the podcast for a frank conversation about accessing the marketing solutions you need, the trend towards diversity marketing and hiring, how to use your voice to achieve what you need, and so much more. On This Week in Business History, Scott Luton explores the genesis of The Clorox Company, from the early entrepreneurial struggles to their international expansion, innovation & growth. On Supply Chain Now en Espanol, Enrique Alvarez welcomed Alex Meza with RioRev Partners to the podcast to talk about growing up in Mexico and the United States, Alex’s professional experience, and trade between the two countries. On Tuesday, we released 2 new episodes! On this episode of TEKTOK Digital Supply Chain Podcast, powered by Supply Chain Now, host Karin Bursa welcomes Jason Tham with Nulogy to the podcast to tackle the question- is your supply chain agile or fragile? On TECHquila Sunrise, host Greg White dives…
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July 29, 2026
Due Diligence Screening Without the Bottlenecks
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…