ClearCross Announces the Availability Of ClearCross Fast Track to Jumpstart Compliance Assurance Across Organizations.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2001

New pre-packaged Solutions offer remedies for trade compliance

pains - Export Compliance, Import Compliance, Materials Compliance,

and Document Production

ClearCross announced today that it will offer pre-packaged cross-border trade solutions for accelerated implementation, helping companies address the immediate pains of heightened security.

These solutions are optimized for corporations looking for low-risk, comprehensive solutions for their cross border trade needs. These feature rich out-of-the-box offerings introduce fast, affordable and guaranteed implementation, giving companies the ability to reduce their risk of non-compliance and help ensure supply chain efficiency.

ClearCross Fast Track includes the ClearCross Export, Import, and Materials Compliance Solutions, as well as its Document Production Solution providing full functionality and regional content that specifically addresses cross-border challenges such as the movement of goods, screening for restricted parties, and determining license requirements.

ClearCross Fast Track offerings include software licenses, implementations, maintenance and a one-year regional content subscription. Companies can select the specific content they need to manage global commerce and automate the document production process--minimizing human intervention and error.

ClearCross solutions will help to effectively manage complex regulatory compliance matters and deliver the ability to create and store required documents for import, hazardous materials compliance and export activities.

Export Compliance:

-- Can be implemented to check at any point in the business process;

-- The ECS can automatically screen every shipment - no exceptions, no risk

-- Configurable, proactive results notification provides real time information

-- Fully scalable - from ten users to ten thousand, one division to entire global organization

-- Content is continuously updated by ClearCross

-- Deployment is easy, affordable, and fast

Import Compliance:

-- Centralizes all necessary import data

-- Helps ensure Customs compliance

-- Reduces costs of execution and administration activities

-- Mitigates exposure to fines and penalties by proving due diligence 

-- Creates comprehensive audit trails to help support your company during US Customs audits

-- Helps reduce Customs clearance time and import data entry preparation

-- Automatically edits to eliminate errors in documentation

Materials Compliance:

-- Intelligently creates needed documents such as Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs), Safety Data Sheets (SDSs), and Road Emergency Transport Cards as well as hazardous goods labels required for the movement of regulated materials

-- Helps address the requirements of worker Right-to-Know legislation worldwide

-- Authors documents in over 20 languages, helping to meet the needs of global clients

-- Delivers up-to-date and accurate regulatory content through Data Link needed to ensure that documents meet regulatory requirements 

-- Continuously tracks and updates regulatory data

-- Securely manages critical documents authored for audit purposes and allows viewing access over your intranet

Document Production Solutions:

-- Provides an extensive document library - commercial, regulatory, transportation, banking, insurance, and country-specific

-- Allows automatic generation of the correct document every time

-- Substantially reduces data entry error and time required for data entry

-- Generates multiple language documents - optimized for use in the US and throughout the EU

-- Broadest scope of documentation that exists today

"Preparing for the new rules of trade can no longer be left to forward thinking organizations," says Bruce Johnson, CEO of ClearCross. "Corporations were already being faced with the financial implications of having a global supply network and we are trying to ease the pain of improving their compliance procedures as a first proactive step to this new world."

About ClearCross

ClearCross Inc. (www.clearcross.com) is the only global technology company that provides a single knowledgebase for planning, compliance, and documentation content needed to effectively execute - and accelerate - international trade.

Solutions are managed to meet the specific requirements of companies competing in the chemical, energy, high-tech, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods arenas. ClearCross is also the first provider to include (M)SDS and hazMAT phrases to its solution suite that features worldwide visibility from origination to destination.

As the only global supply chain provider, ClearCross is uniquely positioned to support international trade requirements -with over half of its revenues from outside of the United States- and services more than 1,000 customers in 22 countries.

ClearCross' comprehensive portfolio enables businesses to expand worldwide sales and dramatically streamline product development, fulfillment and procurement processes. ClearCross is privately held and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA.