Demonstration Centre

The Tradeflow Demonstration Centre contains screen-recorded videos that describe how to use Tradeflow's features.

The Product Management Centre (PMC) is a parts database repository where customers can store and maintain their parts and classification codes. The classification codes are regularly validated and the customer is notified when classifications have expired or are found to be invalid. Other global compliance details like Legal Description, Unit of Measures and Duty Reduction Programs can also be pulled to the product profile. The PMC is fully integrated with Expeditors for brokerage. Tradeflow can also integrate with other non-Expeditors brokers where the mapping of the data is done on the broker’s side.

You can manually add products in the Add Product page. If you want to add several products, you can use Product Upload. An upload template is provided upon data implementation, to help with uploading the initial parts database to the system, and you can continue to use it for future uploads or modifications to existing records.

The template will vary per customer because it reflects their data and the fields that they maintain.

One of the key functions in the Product Management Centre is classifying a product. Since trade content is updated periodically, it's difficult to keep up, but Tradeflow allows you to find fully qualified Harmonized Tariff schedules, along with their applicable duty rates. If you know the chapter of the tariff or parts of its legal description, then Tradeflow can help you determine the rest.

Another great feature that Tradeflow offers is mass updating products. There's no need to use templates or format the data. All you need to do is run a search to find the products that you want to update. Mass updates save time and is practical. We recommend that you extract the data prior to applying the mass update action, just in case because there is no "undo" function for mass actions.

Tradeflow hosts PGA details for the United States and for Canada. It also allows you to link the trade partner (supplier/vendor, shipper, or manufacturer, etc.) to the PGA record.

Communicate with other team members, or with Tradewin, within the application. This is useful for record keeping and for task organization. You can also assign a priority for any requests. An email will be sent to the other user with the request, or message/question.

Tradeflow offers the ability to configure reports and to save them for frequent runs. This is done in the Find Products page. You can modify the default search to add or remove fields. Once the report is created, you can save it for just your own use in your profile, or share it with the team as a Shared Search, or in your organization for everyone to use.

Tradeflow keeps a history log for all of the records that have been created in the PMC. It records the data and time, the username, and the action that took place, along with the old and the new value. This is a great tool for revisions or audits. The history will live in Tradeflow for as long as the record is kept in the system. There is no retention policy. The History page also offers the ability to search for changes by a particular user.

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