Agricultural product origin and sustainability data system
The team collects the origin and sustainability data required by the buyer. Sources and explanations of calculation are saved to the figures given.
Field, farm, emissions, raw materials, animal welfare, certificates and other data required by the buyer are requested for each transaction separately. Members repeat the same information, the cooperative slowly prepares proposals and struggles to create a differentiated lot of higher value.
How the solution works
- Define the buyer's requirement and methodology
- Find available supplier and batch facts
- Collect only missing information
- Check Attribute Application for Batch
- To pass on to the buyer a dataset matching his or her request and to maintain the history of the versions and corrections provided
Key challenges
- Data requests for sustainability, origin and buyers are collected manually
Solution capabilities
Attribute value
Measurement, supplier statement, and estimated estimate are marked differently. The methodology, period, and calculation limits are stored together with the value.
Batch application
The application of a certificate or farm property is checked for a specific product and time. The mixture does not acquire the best properties of all the ingredients automatically.
Data Retrieval
Existing delivery and quality facts are not asked again. An additional supplier's response has purpose and usage rights.
Document update and access
The buyer is given access to the documents he needs. Once they are revised, the team reviews which statements previously submitted or prepared are affected by the change.
Business context
- Data requests for sustainability, origin and buyers are collected manually
- Field, farm, emissions, raw materials, animal welfare, certificates and other data required by the buyer are requested for each transaction separately. Members repeat the same information, the cooperative slowly prepares proposals and struggles to create a differentiated lot of higher value.
- Buyer's data requirements are serviced in conjunction with the supply
- Origin or sustainability information may be part of an agreed production presentation. Linked sources and computational explanations allow for a response about a specific batch. It is easier for a cooperative to combine the requirements of different buyers without transferring evidence of one production to the entire supply.
Core features
- Attribute value
- Batch application
- Data Retrieval
- Document update and access
Key integrations
- Sources of suppliers, lots and certificates
- Primary production origin and production data, their period, and the permitted presentation to the buyer.
Potential impact (%)
The ranges indicate an illustrative relative change in the metric under the stated assumptions. Results depend on the starting position and actual use of the solution. Percentages for different metrics must not be added together.
Work on the preparation of the data package for the buyer
12–36%Decreasing
This illustrative scenario assumes that 30-60% of manual data entry and handover work can be addressed. That share is assumed to fall by 40-60%. Company data is needed to verify both the addressable workload and the resulting change.
Measure working hours for the preparation of one real data package.
Re-applying a fact available
12–42%Decreasing
This illustrative scenario assumes that 30-60% of errors can be addressed through the data and rule checks described. That share is assumed to fall by 40-70%. Company data is needed to verify both the addressable share and the resulting change.
Counting the supplier's repeated questions about the proper fact available at the time.
As part of the follow-up proposals following the submission of origin data
1–7%Increasing
Sample starting portion - 60%. Assumption: 10-25% of the remaining cases relate to missing origin and sustainability data requested by the buyer; a solution would solve 20-40% of these cases.
Continued bids are divided by all comparable bids that required origin or sustainability data specified by the buyer. Obtaining a certificate or price supplement is assessed separately.
Conditional calculation scenarios. The assumptions have not been validated against client measurements.
When this solution is relevant
- Several buyers request data on the origin or sustainability of the same farms, subject to different requirements.
- The documents are difficult to link to a specific batch of production and explain the limits of their application.
Project scope and implementation
The data collected is linked to the requirements of specific buyers and production batches. Indicators of different methodologies are separated, and additional information is collected only with its clear purpose. Responsible specialists confirm the appropriateness of the data and the application of documents.
Further expansion
- Other buyer methodologies only after separating the values of their indicators and the scope of proof.