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Supply chains run on thousands of small, time-critical decisions across sourcing, customs, and freight — most of them still made by people copying data between an ERP, a broker portal, and a carrier email. We deploy agents that do that work and keep every move screened, classified, and auditable.
- Denied-party & sanctions screening
- HTS classification & customs prep
- PO, ASN & exception handling
- Full trade-compliance audit trail
Compliance is the constraint, not the freight
Moving goods is the easy part. Moving them legally is where supply chains lose time and money.
Every cross-border shipment sits at the intersection of overlapping regimes: customs valuation and HTS classification under CBP, export licensing under EAR and ITAR, sanctions and denied-party rules under OFAC and BIS, plus a growing stack of forced-labor (UFLPA), traceability, and ESG disclosure obligations. A single misclassified part or an unscreened counterparty can trigger seizures, penalties, or a hold that strands inventory for weeks.
The work that protects you from all of that — screening parties, classifying goods, validating documents, reconciling POs against ASNs and invoices — is repetitive, deadline-driven, and done by a thin team across too many systems. That is exactly the shape of work agents are good at, provided the high-stakes calls stay gated and everything is logged.
What the agents actually do
Concrete, bounded jobs across the source-to-deliver lifecycle — each one observable and reversible.
Denied-party & sanctions screening
Screen every counterparty, end-user, and ship-to against OFAC, BIS, EU, and UN lists on each transaction; escalate any hit to compliance with the matched record attached.
HTS classification & customs prep
Draft HTS/Schedule B codes and country-of-origin determinations with the supporting rulings, then route to a broker for sign-off before any CBP filing.
PO & ASN reconciliation
Match purchase orders to advance ship notices and invoices, flag quantity, price, and lead-time variances, and chase suppliers on the exceptions.
Disruption & ETA monitoring
Watch carrier feeds, port status, and weather for at-risk shipments, propose reroutes or expedites, and brief the planner with the cost trade-offs.
Document validation
Read commercial invoices, packing lists, certificates of origin, and bills of lading; check them for consistency and missing UFLPA traceability evidence.
Supplier onboarding & data
Collect, verify, and normalize new-supplier records — tax IDs, certifications, banking — and keep your vendor master clean across systems.
Every action is screened, gated, and logged
The guardrails that let an autonomous agent touch a regulated transaction.
Screen first
No transaction advances until parties and destinations clear restricted-list checks; fuzzy matches always halt for human review.
Gate the high-stakes calls
Customs filings, export-license decisions, and payment releases require a named human approver — agents draft, people sign.
Cite the basis
Each classification or determination carries its supporting rulings, GRIs, and source data so an auditor can trace the why.
Log the lineage
Every screen, decision, and document is recorded to satisfy CBP and BIS five-year recordkeeping out of the box.
Supplier pricing never leaves your control
BOMs, landed-cost models, contract rates, and customer ship-to data are among the most competitively sensitive records you hold. We never route them to a shared cloud. Agents run in your VPC, on-prem, or a hybrid you control, acting on your systems through governed connectors.
That means a sanctions screen, a customs draft, and a carrier negotiation all happen inside your perimeter, with every tool call logged and every high-risk step reversible. Compliance and security are part of the architecture, not a checkbox bolted on after the demo.
- VPC, on-prem, or hybrid deployment
- Governed connectors to TMS / WMS / ERP
- Approval gates on filings and payments
- Five-year audit trail by default
Manual trade ops vs. an Automatic.co agent
Why an action-taking agent beats another dashboard for compliance-bound work.
| Manual / analyst-driven | An Automatic.co agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Party screening | Spot-checked, often post-shipment | Every transaction, before it clears |
| Classification | Tribal knowledge in a spreadsheet | Drafted with cited rulings, broker-approved |
| Exceptions | Found when something breaks | Detected and chased in real time |
| Recordkeeping | Reconstructed under audit | Logged automatically as it happens |
| Coverage | Business hours, one time zone | 24/7 across every lane |
Frequently asked questions
How do you keep agents compliant with sanctions and export controls?
Screening agents check counterparties, end-users, and destinations against OFAC SDN, BIS Entity List, EU/UN lists, and your denied-party feeds on every transaction. A positive or fuzzy match never auto-clears — it routes to trade compliance with the matched record and the rationale attached. The full screen is logged for your five-year recordkeeping obligation.
Can agents file customs entries or classify HTS codes on their own?
Agents draft classifications and entry data and surface the supporting basis — prior rulings, GRIs, and product attributes — but a licensed broker or your trade team approves anything that touches a CBP filing. We design the HTS and country-of-origin steps as human-gated by default, because a misclassification is your liability, not the model's.
Where does our supplier and shipment data run?
In your environment — VPC, on-prem, or hybrid. Pricing, BOMs, contracts, and customer ship-to data are competitively sensitive, so we design for your perimeter from the first call and never route them to a shared cloud you don't control.
Do agents replace our TMS, ERP, or WMS?
No. They act on top of them. Agents read and write through your existing SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder, or NetSuite via APIs and EDI, so the system of record stays the system of record and every action is observable.
Bring your hardest trade lane.
One working session to map a single source-to-deliver workflow and the screened, audited agent that can run it.