Food and Agriculture
Due Diligence for Deforestation, Human Rights and more
Mapping and Traceability for Mixed Volumes of Agricultural Raw Materials
Sourcemap features streamlined workflows for mapping and tracing raw materials that are blended in large volumes, all while creating an audit trail that satisfies certification, due diligence and sustainability reports.
Large-Volume GPS Polygon Mapping
Our customers can rely on powerful server-side GIS to quickly gather tens or hundreds of thousands of farm and forest polygons from suppliers directly, with built-in quality and coherence analysis and reports.
Supplier Benchmarking
Managing multiple compliance and sustainability projects means flexible data collection, analysis and reporting. Our custom SAQ's allow you to configure automated scoring of suppliers while buyer-facing dashboards provide quick decision-making support.
Risk Heat Maps
Perform quick assessment of supplier risk as it comes to corruption, conflict, land rights and other issues facing your industry today.
Traceability for Upstream Quality Assurance
Ensuring quality food means tracing ingredients from farm to table. Sourcemap supports item-level traceability through mobile app-enabled transaction and shipment tracking. The real-time results are available through an online dashboard with access available to all supply chain stakeholders. Mass-balanced and blended product is tracked through transformation processes. Conversion factors are used to verify whether producers are likely to have adulterated products.
Supply Chain Transparency
Once you've mapped and verified your supply chain you can confidently publish the results for internal and external stakeholders along with compelling storytelling content.
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Applications and Commodities
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Coffee
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Cocoa
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Seafood
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Soy
FAQs
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People have been mapping supply chains as long as they’ve been making maps. But traditional maps only provide a summary view - they don't show how supply chains change in real time. Modern supply chain mapping is the process of engaging across companies and suppliers to document the exact source of every material, every process and every shipment involved in bringing goods to market. Accurate supply chain mapping only became possible with the rise of online maps and the social web. The first online supply chain mapping platform was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008 (the underlying open source technology is the basis for Sourcemap). Read More
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The concept of supply chain transparency was virtually unknown 15 years ago, yet today it commands the attention of mid- and senior-level managers across a broad spectrum of companies and industries.
The reasons for this increased interest are clear: Companies are under pressure from governments, consumers, NGOs, and other stakeholders to divulge more information about their supply chains, and the reputational cost of failing to meet these demands can be high. For example, food companies are facing more demand for supply-chain-related information about ingredients, food fraud, animal welfare, and child labor. Less clear, however, is how to define transparency in a supply chain context and the extent to which companies should pursue it: an MIT study that mapped definitions of supply chain transparency related to labor practices in the apparel industry found vastly different definitions across organizations.
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Companies are under increased pressure from governments and regulators to ensure that their products are compliant with human rights and environmental standards. The only way for companies to ensure their supply chains are "clean" is by mapping their supply chains down the raw materials using auditable, verifiable data.