Security Trade Control Support Solution for Corporate Customers
STC Manager^TM Soon-To-Be Available- Providing Support for Efficient Self-export-control and Compliance -

NTT DATA Corporation will soon release STC Manager, a security trade control support solution for corporate customers engaged in international trade. STC Manager is a solution for standardizing and streamlining company-wide screening tasks and reinforcing the compliance foundations to ensure that a company is compliant with Foreign Exchange Laws and relatives so as to prevent the risk of violations when exporting goods and technologies (software) abroad.
The installation assessment service will start on October 1, 2009 and the packaged product is scheduled for release on March 1, 2010.

Background to the Development of STC Manager

The establishment and enforcement of a compliance program ^(*1) for self-export-control based on the Foreign Exchange Law is considered to be a prerequisite for a company wishing to maintain stability in its business activities on the global market. The revised Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law, which will come into effect in November 2009, will impose stricter regulations and penalties on violations. These result from recent spate of illegal export incidents involving goods and technologies which have raised concerns over security. Consequently, firms engaged in international trade are required to impose stricter self-regulatory controls.
Based on its 30-year record and expertise in building systems for the trade-related / logistics-related field, NTT DATA has incorporated the needs of its users across industries to develop an IT solution for streamlining security trade control tasks and achieving compliance: the STC Manager.

(*1) Internal regulation regarding observance of export-related laws and regulations.

STC Manager

STC Manager is equipped with the classification, client verification and transaction screening functions required of firms engaged in international trade to implement security control relating to list control and catch-all control. The product will allow all departments, including design, procurement, sales and export control departments, to perform their tasks efficiently and to keep track of each result.
Furthermore, advanced uniform monitoring levels can be maintained for all business activities including design, development, contract signing, order receiving, lading and shipping procedures by linking the results accumulated in STC Manager with the company's main system.

Main Functions

STC Manager comprises the following four functions.

1. Classification Function
2. Client Verification Function
3. Transaction Screening Function
4. Approval Workflow Function

Each of these functions is provided in a module format that can be flexibly adapted to various security trade control processes applicable to the product characteristics and business processes of our customers. Please refer to the attached "Detailed Functions of STC Manager" for further information on each of these functions.

Benefits of Introducing STC Manager

• Cuts down on work connected to external audits and retrospective reviews by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry through integrated management of each result and approval processes as trails.
• Improves business efficiency via simple search of past results.
• Reduces the workload for responding to amendments in cabinet and ministerial ordinances.
• Minimizes the amount of mistakes and omissions in various duties, reducing the risk of illegal exports in international trade.
• Eradicates aspects of operations that were formerly ambiguous due to the use of paper forms by establishing a system whereby goods cannot be exported unless they have been approved via relevant screening procedures.
• Standardizes control levels company-wide thereby ensuring corporate governance.

Usage Image of STC Manager

STC Manager Product Format

This packaged product has been designed so that it can be used as a stand-alone system. Furthermore, since its five core functions come in the form of modules, it can also be used in conjunction with the main system to enhance its introduction benefits.
With a view to revolutionizing our customers' security trade control operations, NTT DATA will provide an assessment service for proposing a suitable framework based on analysis of existing business processes and control items, and subsequently formulating installation formats and operation rules.

Price

Package price: 40 million yen
Maintenance cost: 600,000 yen/month
Customization cost (To be estimated after introduction assessment service)

Future Developments

Functions to accommodate the US Export Administration Regulations (EAR) will be incorporated into STC Manager in fiscal 2010 to enhance global regulation of trade control tasks. Moreover, NTT DATA aims to introduce the system to over 50 companies and achieve sales of approximately 2.5 billion yen in the next three years.
As an "innovation partner", NTT DATA is committed to providing support in the field of international trade control which is undergoing dramatic changes of environment so that our customers can achieve their innovation goals.

* STC Manager^TM is a trademark of NTT DATA Corporation.

• Attachment: Detailed Functions of STC Manager^TM