Tradeflow January 2016 What's New

Enhancements for Tradeflow were released January 14, 2016 for the Restricted Party Screening feature. Please read below for details about the enhancements.

There are two places in Tradeflow where a user can execute a restricted party screening, both of which will see changes:

• Trade Partner Centre

• Trade Reference Centre

Trade Partner Centre - Restricted Party Screening

The below image shows how the screening results will now look in the Trade Partner Centre when the user first arrives at the page. Refer to these numbers on the image to understand the changes:

1. There is now a date legend (DD/MM/YYYY) to make it clear the date format used (for example, 12/11/2015 is November 12, 2015).

2. The screening results are now collapsed into smaller rows at first, whenever there are several results. When there are just a few results, the results will default to being auto-expanded.  In either case, there is an “Expand All” and “Collapse All” for users to modify the view quickly.

3. The check box to select specific results will be available in the collapsed view. This provides users a quick way to select one or more matched results, if it is clear that the result should be selected and flagged as a match.

Figure 1: Restricted Party Screen Results

When the results are expanded, users will see additional changes in how each result is structured. The example below illustrates the changes:

4. The AKA (Name alias, “Also Known As”) results have been moved up to just under the name in each result. The AKAs are other names that the restricted party has used. By positioning them right under the primary name, it will allow users to better understand the identity of the result presented.

5. The Address fields are laid out horizontally to allow for easier viewing of multiple addresses.

6. When a restricted party has multiple addresses, these will now show up under one result, instead of being listed as separate results. This allows users to review one result as a whole and make a decision on it. The addresses will be listed one after another, going top to bottom within the result.

7. The List field is not yet activated, and will be available at a later date. It will show for the screening country which list the result is on.

Figure 2: Results

On the Find Trade Partner page, there are two new fields available to users. Both of these fields are searchable, sortable, and extractable. Users can use them to prioritize their review of trade partners in the Pending Review status:

8. No. of Screening Results – will indicate how many individual screening results the trade partner has on the Restricted Party Screening Results tab.

9. Max Screening Score – will show the highest score that exists in the screening results, which will also be the first trade partner shown at the top of the results (current Tradeflow behavior).

Figure 3: New Columns

Trade Reference Centre - Restricted Party Screening

Most of the changes, as seen in the Trade Partner Centre screening results, will also be reflected in the Trade Reference Centre. The only change noted above in the Trade Partner Centre section, which is not available in the Trade Reference Centre, is #3 (the check box for each result, since the TRC does not record a user’s determination of match/no-match).

The first thing users will notice in the Trade Reference Centre is in the input page, where the user enters the party’s name to be screened:

10. All the fields are now much wider, to show the entire amount of text that can be entered into each field (without having to left or right arrow key your cursor across the field).  This includes even the Country drop-down menu, in order to clearly see the longest of country names.

Figure 4: Input Fields

The next image shows the screening results in the Trade Reference Centre. As noted above, most of the same changes for the Trade Partner Centre are also present in the Trade Reference Centre. The only other change in this page is the change in the buttons at the top right of the page:

11. Back will take the user to the previous screening input page while also retaining all of the selections and entered text from the screening that was just executed.

New Screening will return to the screening input page, but reset all the values back to their default starting point.

Figure 5: New Buttons

Additional changes to the Restricted Party Screening feature will be introduced in 2016.