SAP Packaged Services, run by SAP Consulting (a division of SAP UK) are designed to provide off-the-shelf solutions to clearly defined business problems. AEB offers SAP Packaged Services for Denied-Party Address Screening and Export Management. AEB has two entries in the 2010 catalogue. These can be found at www.sap.com/uk/services/consulting/portfolio/index.html (entries are on pages 42 and 43)

Denied-Party Screening in SAP
The Denied-Party Address Screening module provides automated real-time checks of addresses held in the SAP system against published lists of individuals, companies, and organisations believed to be engaged in terrorist activities.
For more information, please refer to the detailed brochure on SAP:
>> Packaged Services for Denied-Party Address Screening

Export Management in SAP
ASIST4 Export offers comprehensive support to ensure that your exports are managed cost-effectively and in compliance with regulations. Electronic declarations to Customs and associated export documents are created with minimum effort.
For more information, please refer to the detailed brochure on SAP:
>> Packaged Services for ASSIST4 Export

Following the release of the SAP Packaged Services catalogue AEB UK will be exhibiting at a series of SAP Packaged Services roadshows. Mark Brannan, Senior Business Systems Analyst and Steven Peirce, Sales Manager, will be representing AEB to promote AEB's solutions. Although SAP have their own range of packaged services, AEB is one of 12 software vendors who have the opportunity to work alongside SAP to promote fixed price, fixed scope solutions directly to the SAP user base in the UK. Details of the event schedule will be announced shortly.

Simplified processes (VAR in Switzerland) must be handled electronically effective April 1, 2010. ASSIST4 customers in Switzerland have had the option of processing their exports electronically since the summer. Now an ATC :: series module for Switzerland has been developed as well, making it possible to connect to the Swiss automated export system e-dec. Starting in late November, Swiss companies will now be able to easily manage their exports from directly within their SAP system.

The ASSIST4 Goods Receipt Management module lets you record goods receipts, including an optional synchronization with expected data to identify any discrepancies. Purchase order data for physical goods receipts is first transmitted from supplier systems or taken from your company’s own purchase orders. The data captured during goods receipt can be processed in ASSIST4 for all downstream processes—warehouse management, freight cost calculation, transport, customs clearance, etc.
What’s new here is the ability to record both items and packages at the time of inbound delivery. The ability to forward packages in ASSIST4 enables IT support for cross-docking with an upstream goods receipt. Packages also contain qualified packaging information. Now, for example, if package A is passed to consignment A and package B to consignment B, all items packed in package A are automatically identified in consignment A and all items packed in package B are automatically identified in consignment B.
To learn more about the extended Goods Receipt Management or Logistical Purchase Order Management modules, contact your AEB sales representative. We’ll be happy to assist you.

Many businesses are aware of their obligation to screen the addresses of all their business partners against sanctions lists. These lists are part of EC Regulations 881/2002 and 2580/2001 adopted by the European Community in response to the anti-terrorism resolutions of the UN Security Council in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The regulations represent direct, binding law in all EC member states, even without national implementation measures.

• Regulation 881/2002 imposes restrictive measures on certain persons and entities associated with Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda network and the Taliban. The regulation’s annex contains a list, regularly updated by the UN Sanctions Committee, naming the persons and entities to whom such measures apply.
• Regulation 2580/2001 imposes restrictive measures on other persons and organizations suspected of links to terrorism. This regulation has its own list, created and continually updated by resolutions of the Council of the European Union.

The two EC regulations prohibit any type of business dealings with the listed persons, legal entities or organizations, including any provision of money or economic resources. Since these prohibitions are binding law, noncompliance carries sensitive criminal consequences.
The EC regulations do not address the internal methods companies can employ to ensure their compliance. There is no legal stipulation that such screening must be carried out using information technology. But considering the huge number of list entries, including spelling variants and aliases, and the fact that the lists are regularly updated, it does not seem practical to rely on sporadic—much less manual—screening if you wish to avoid possible criminal consequences. IT is thus a virtual imperative in list screening.

The European Court of Justice has found that a final judgment is not a necessary prerequisite to the freezing of funds under the EC anti-terrorism regulation 2580/2001. A Moroccan man living in the Netherlands sued after his assets were frozen as a result of his inclusion on a terrorist list even though there had been no final judgment in his case prior to his listing. The court argues that the freezing of assets is a security measure, not a punishment, and that there is therefore no violation of the presumption of innocence. The judgment (T-37/07) is available online at http://curia.europe.eu

The annual Movex User Association conference was held October 13–14, 2009, at Chesford Grange, Warwick. One hundred sixty delegates representing fifty different organizations attended the two-day event. Senior Business Systems Analyst Mark Brannan and Sales Manager Steven Peirce represented AEB. In addition to maintaining a conference booth, AEB conducted a 45-minute presentation to introduce AEB to the Movex community and, more specifically, to speak about “Export Processes, Electronic Customs Integration and the Importance of Denied-Party Address Screening.”
Mark Brannan: “Our presentation was well received and we have been invited to host a series of webinars based on these subjects and other subjects we may propose.” The Movex User Association (MUA) deals with Movex users in the U.K., Ireland, Holland and Belgium. Movex M3 is particularly popular in the food & beverage, fashion, manufacturing and plant hire industries in the U.K. Steven Peirce’s assessment: “It was a really good event for us to attend and a critical first introduction of our company to the Movex user community.”

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, in its “Excellent Knowledge Organization” initiative, has named the P. M. Belz Group—consisting of AEB GmbH, AFI GmbH and PMB GmbH—as one of the country’s 25 best knowledge companies thanks to the way it handles knowledge transfer through its corporate intranet. The awards ceremony will take place on October 30 in Berlin. The ministry honors companies that practice conscious and integrated knowledge management in all divisions and whose solutions are innovative, pragmatic and transferable to other companies.
The P. M. Belz Group’s intranet is the central corporate-wide point of contact, where employees log their working hours, enter travel expenses, subscribe to a magazine or register for a seminar. In addition, all employees are encouraged to share their knowledge in the wiki, blog about their visions or share news of their achievements. AEB founder Peter Michael Belz is proud of what his employees have achieved through their own initiative: “Our knowledge management is not imposed from above but comes from each and every employee.”
The value of continuing education within the corporation is also reflected in the costs the P. M. Belz Group invests in the ongoing qualification of its workforce. Whereas the average German company spends two percent of its personnel costs for employee training and education, the P. M. Belz Group invests five percent of revenues in workforce continuing education.