Global Logistics Provider
The shipment cleared the customs declaration. The consignee’s owner did not. Sayari resolved the entity behind the trade name.
220+ Countries covered
1.5B+ Records indexed
100% Audit traceable
Result
Building for the Future
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The Challenge
– WHY THE OLD PLAYBOOK FAILED parties. Alert rates exceeded investigation capacity – the majority were false positives from common-name overlaps. Genuine
The Solution
Sayari Graph resolved entity identity through – matching shipper-provided names against government registries, corporate filings, and trade data to identify the actual entity behind a customs declaration. The API integrates into the TMS at the point of shipment entry, screening every party – shipper, consignee, notify party, intermediary – against sanctions and restricted party lists while simultaneously resolving ownership chains. Entity resolution beyond customs documentation: Abbreviated names, transliterations, and trade names are resolved to
Building for the Future
With party-level screening operational, the company is extending the platform to build transshipment risk scoring – combining party data, route data, and goods classification to identify shipments with diversion indicators. As BIS and OFAC extend enforcement to logistics intermediaries, comprehensive ecosystem screening will become a competitive differentiator for providers that can demonstrate independent compliance due diligence across every party in the supply chain.
The challenge
– WHY THE OLD PLAYBOOK FAILED
- Shipment volume overwhelmed screening infrastructure: Millions of annual shipments, each requiring screening of multiple
- Shipper-provided data was incomplete and unreliable: Customs documentation often contained abbreviated names,
- No visibility into party ownership: Each party was screened as an isolated entity. If a consignee’s name was not on a
- Route-based risk assessment was absent: Export control evasion frequently involves transshipment through intermediary
The solution
Sayari Graph resolved entity identity through – matching shipper-provided names against government registries, corporate filings, and trade data to identify the actual entity behind a customs declaration. The API integrates into the TMS at the point of shipment entry, screening every party – shipper, consignee, notify party, intermediary – against sanctions and restricted party lists while simultaneously resolving ownership chains.
The results
Building for the Future
With party-level screening operational, the company is extending the platform to build transshipment risk scoring – combining party data, route data, and goods classification to identify shipments with diversion indicators. As BIS and OFAC extend enforcement to logistics intermediaries, comprehensive ecosystem screening will become a competitive differentiator for providers that can demonstrate independent compliance due diligence across every party in the supply chain.
220+
Countries covered for shipment screening across every corridor
10.6B+
Primary-source records enabling entity resolution at scale
100%
Audit traceable – every screening decision linked to source
“Logistics providers have independent compliance obligations beyond their shippers. Entity resolution is more important than algorithm tuning for sanctions screening accuracy.”
Chief Compliance Officer
Global Logistics Provider
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