Work together on trade, across your network
Altana is a trusted trade network that connects businesses, their suppliers, logistics service providers, and governments. Network Collaboration is how you put that network to work: you exchange product and value chain information with the collaborators you already work with, through collaborative Product Passports, without anyone losing control of their own data.
A Product Passport is a shared, structured record of how a product is sourced, made, and moved. You decide what to share, your collaborator decides what to accept, and every change is reviewed before it enters either side's Catalog. The same workflow connects you to your suppliers, your customers, your logistics service providers and customs brokers, and, where you choose, to government authorities.
What you can do here
These guides follow the work, step by step:
- Decide what to share and accept: set your defaults and control which parts of your value chain each collaborator can see.
- Share information with customers and suppliers: create and share passports, and publish updates as your data changes.
- Request information from suppliers: ask for product and organization data, invite new suppliers, and review and accept what comes back.
- Respond to requests you receive: answer a customer's request and share data back through a passport.
- Exchange information with LSPs and brokers: share your product catalog with a logistics service provider or customs broker and receive their updates.
- Share information with governments: submit verified passport data to customs and border authorities.
- Monitor collaboration activity: track what needs your attention from your home page.
The power of the network
The real value comes from your whole network working off one shared system of record. Instead of reconciling spreadsheets and chasing updates over email, every collaborator sees the same trusted information, and a change made in one place flows to everyone who needs it. The same passport plays a different role for each participant, but they all build on the same record.
Enterprises and their suppliers
Get a single view of your value chains, classify faster, and surface fewer single-source surprises. Suppliers respond once, in one place, and reuse that work with every customer who asks.
Logistics service providers and customs brokers
Receive product data directly from the enterprises you serve, complete classification or duty work, and send results back: faster classification, fewer compliance errors, and new compliance-service margin.
Governments and customs authorities
Receive pre-validated Product Passports for clearance, get accurate upstream visibility, and put more enforcement impact behind every analyst.
You always stay in control. No data ever enters your Catalog without your explicit action, and you choose exactly what to share with each collaborator. Decide what to share and accept covers how to set this up.