Global Trade Control Tower

The Global Trade Control Tower is a platform application that gives you a top-down view of how your products — and your product portfolio as a whole — are financially exposed to tariffs and to dependencies deep in your supply-chain network. It helps you quickly identify those exposures and decide how to act, so you can manage risk and strengthen the resilience of your value chain. It draws on Altana's trusted trade network and its component truth about what your products are made of, connecting deep-tier visibility to the cost, margin, and revenue at stake.

Who this is for

The Global Trade Control Tower is built for large manufacturers of physical goods with complex, global supply chains — the supply-chain, procurement, sourcing, and finance leaders who need to understand how tariffs and supplier dependencies affect product cost, margin, and revenue. It serves both the executive who needs a portfolio-level view and the analyst who investigates a specific product, part, or supplier.

The outcome

You get a connected view that runs from your finished products, through the parts you buy, and into the sub-tier suppliers, materials, and countries they depend on — with each dependency tied to the product revenue and spend it affects. Instead of assembling that picture by hand across spreadsheets and teams, you measure exposure, compare scenarios, and prioritize action in one place.

How it works

An administrator sets up your tenant by uploading your supply-chain data with the supply-chain data template — your products, the parts and materials that compose them, your suppliers, and the countries involved. Altana then runs the analytics that combine your data with its product network to extend visibility into the sub-tier, where your own records usually end. The result is a set of dashboards that connect the structure of your network to its business impact. Connections drawn from Altana's product network beyond your direct records are inferred; review the supporting evidence before you act on them.

What you can do

The control tower is organized into three areas that share one view of your network — which areas you see depends on how your organization's tenant is configured:

Tariffs — Model the financial impact of tariffs, USMCA qualification, and Section 232 declarations on your material costs and margins, with visibility from each product down to its parts and sub-tier suppliers, and verify cost increases passed on by your direct suppliers.
Resilience — Trace how materials flow from upstream suppliers into your finished products, measure how much product revenue and spend is exposed to specific materials and countries, and surface single-source and bottleneck concentration risks.
DataCube (Beta) — Navigate your network dependencies flexibly across many dimensions. DataCube includes the Multi-Tier Analyst Agent, which answers questions about your network in plain language and generates summary reports.
DataCube and the Multi-Tier Analyst Agent are a Beta capability, currently offered to select early-adopter customers, and may not be enabled in your environment.

Decision points

Which tariff scenario to model, and whether a product can qualify for USMCA or for a Section 232 treatment.
Whether an inferred sub-tier connection is well-supported enough to act on.
Which concentration risks to prioritize, based on the product revenue and spend they affect.
Whether to engage a supplier to verify or reduce a dependency.