Case Study: Beckman Coulter achieves automated global-trade compliance and expedited biomedical exports with Oracle Global Trade Management

Beckman Coulter Uses Automation to Improve Compliance and Expedite Orders for Biomedical-Product Exportation

Beckman Coulter, a global life‑sciences company that manufactures biomedical‑testing instruments and supplies used in research, clinical trials, and diagnostics, needed a flexible global‑trade management solution to handle exports to more than 130 countries. The company faced evolving regulatory requirements and needed to ensure all transactions passed U.S. export controls—including restricted‑party screening—without causing shipment delays or excessive manual review.

Beckman Coulter deployed Oracle Global Trade Management integrated with its Oracle E‑Business Suite, using rules‑based compliance, restricted‑party and sanction screening, and automated holds to streamline investigations. The solution cut prospective false‑positive matches from 1–2% to under 0.05%, sped up supply‑chain processing and working‑capital use by avoiding compliance‑related delays, delivered significant ROI in under a year, and was implemented in nine months with partner support from CSC.

Beckman Coulter

Carl Sandvik

Senior Manager, IT Enterprise Information Systems Logistics