Customer success story - Power TK | Descartes
Customer success story - Power TK
Strengthening Compliance & Risk Management Through Automated Screening
Power TK operates in a demanding regulatory environment and needed to structure its compliance framework to support global expansion. By implementing Descartes’ screening and compliance workflow solutions, it automated risk detection, harmonized practices, and secured its operations across all activities, transforming fragmented manual compliance processes into a unified, future-proof system.
Key Takeaways
- Automated Risk Mitigation: Replaced risky manual checks with systematic global screening of all customers, suppliers, and business partners.
- Continuous Monitoring: Implemented dynamic screening to provide real-time, ongoing tracking of evolving global sanctions and risks.
- Audit-Ready Traceability: Centralized compliance workflows to formalize internal decisions and ensure easy documentation during regulatory audits.
- Scalable Foundation: Transformed fragmented regional processes into a unified, future-proof compliance framework built for global expansion.
Challenge: Fragmented Controls & Compliance Gaps
The company operates in a multi-activity and multi-jurisdictional environment, facing increasing requirements related to sanctions, compliance, and third-party due diligence. Prior to implementation, controls were largely manual, inconsistent across entities, and insufficiently formalized.
This led to risks of inconsistency in third-party assessments, limited traceability, and difficulty demonstrating compliance during audits. In addition, the absence of continuous monitoring prevented timely identification of evolving risks.
“Implementing automated screening and compliance workflows has significantly strengthened our ability to manage risks while maintaining operational efficiency. We now have greater visibility, consistency, and traceability across all our transactions.”
Alizée Bonnet, Global Supply Chain & Compliance Project Manager, Power TK
Solution: Automating Global Screening & Governance
To address these challenges, the company implemented Descartes Visual Compliance™, including restricted party screening, dynamic screening, and the compliance manager workflow module.
The screening solution enables systematic verification of customers, suppliers, and business partners—whether involved in domestic or international operations—against global sanctions lists and compliance databases. This ensures a consistent and secure approach across all business relationships.
Dynamic screening was implemented to provide continuous monitoring of all third parties recorded in Power TK’s systems (e.g., customers, suppliers, service providers). At this stage, monitoring is applied globally, without prior risk segmentation, to ensure immediate and comprehensive coverage.
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The compliance management workflow structures alert handling, formalizes decisions, and ensures proper escalation where necessary. It also centralizes information and strengthens internal governance.
Overall, the solution provides an initial level of structure and automation, while laying the foundation for a more advanced risk-based approach in the future. The company has transitioned from manual and fragmented processes to a structured, automated, and scalable system governing all compliance workflows.
Results
1. Enhanced Compliance Control
Improved ability to identify and manage sanctions and compliance risks through systematic screening of all third parties.
2. Improved Auditability
All compliance decisions are documented within a structured workflow, providing a clear and auditable trail.
3. Continuous Risk Monitoring
Dynamic screening enables ongoing monitoring of third parties, ensuring early detection of potential risks.
4. Operational Efficiency
Automation reduces manual workload and allows teams to focus on higher-risk cases.
About Power TK
A global industrial group specializing in the distribution and supply of mechanical components and engines, operating across multiple markets with complex business flows and increasing compliance requirements.
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