On November 3rd, 2022, our COO Nur Hayat Nezir held a very special presentation for members and friends of the International Trade Club of Chicago. The event took place at Polsinelli in Chicago, IL, and the main focus was on presenting ABRAMS world trade wiki’ tools and the opportunities that arise from using them.

Continually, globalization has increased dependencies in world trade. Bottlenecked trade routes in particular are critical for maintaining global supply chains. The recently congested trade routes therefore require an effective risk management. With customs and lately also maritime port data, ABRAMS world trade wiki enables supply chain resilience even under pressure.

In global trade, it is crucial to know your markets and their developments. But what about the players in the markets? Who sells competing products and who is a potential or even direct competitor? These decisive questions about the market can be easily answered with the trade data from ABRAMS world trade wiki.

Networking is playing an increasingly important role in world trade. To stay on top of these dynamic developments and identify opportunities, it is important to monitor import, export and shipping trends. You can gain knowledge from a variety of sources, but trade data analysis is the key tool to make the right decisions.

The past year has shown what unexpected challenges can suddenly strike the global economy and entrepreneurs. In the beginning crisis management was the main reaction. Although many companies were able to keep up their supply chains, their revenue suffered major losses. At this point strategic knowledge through trade data and innovative business intelligence offer a way out of this crises.

Many parts of the globe continue to witness unprecedented social and political unrest, natural catastrophes and force majeur like the Covid-19 pandemic. Thus, Supply Chain risk management has become a more critical process for firms to safeguard their long-term success.

The focus of every company should always be on retaining existing customers and winning new customers, because this ensures sustainable company growth. Thanks to new technologies such as high-performance databases and globally available data, new customers can now be identified by analyzing trade data. With the help of appropriate tools, customers are much easier to find than many company managers think.

At the CiMi.CON, Europe's leading conference for the corporate intelligence community, the ABRAMS Group won first place in the coveted "Insights to Action" award with its business intelligence online based knowledge portal ABRAMS.wiki.
