Agriculture
Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains
Building transparent and responsible agricultural supply chains through source-level data, responsible procurement, traceability, due diligence and evidence systems — built for supply bases too large to verify farm by farm.
A Supply Base You Cannot Visit
An exporter sourcing through FPOs and aggregators may stand behind a large number of smallholdings, many supplying through intermediaries. Each producer may have its own plot information, production records and supporting evidence, while the exporter still has to demonstrate what happened across the supply base.
Asked where a consignment came from, the answer can sometimes stop at a district. That answer may not be sufficient — for EU-bound commodities in scope of deforestation rules, for buyers with their own sourcing commitments, or for customers who need evidence of origin.
What makes this hard is not only the requirement. It is the operational work behind it. Collecting, checking and keeping current plot-level records across a large producer base is a data-management problem as well as a compliance problem.
Where the Evidence Comes From — and Where It Goes Missing
- Farm
- FarmerFPO
- Aggregatortrader
- Processor
- Manufacturer
- Exporter
- Buyer
We work upstream of that point, with the FPOs and aggregators who are among the parties best placed to record origin while it is still knowable.
What We Do
From producer and FPO networks to processors and buyers, S360 helps organisations establish source-level data, responsible procurement, traceability, due diligence and evidence systems that work across fragmented supply bases.
Advisory · Implementation · Digital
Where that applies here
- Source-level data
- Producer and FPO programmes
- Responsible sourcing
- Traceability
- Due diligence
- Supplier management
Standards and Market Requirements
S360 works with applicable standards, regulations and buyer requirements, including EUDR for the commodities it covers, sustainable agriculture schemes, organic, labour and social requirements and customer sourcing programmes. Not every crop faces a regulation. Almost every crop faces a buyer.
Where standards or certification are relevant, these systems can also support certification readiness and independent assessment.
Running It, Not Just Designing It
A spreadsheet can work for a small producer base. As the number of farmers grows, with plot data, seasonal updates, changing memberships and evidence attached to each, keeping it current becomes increasingly difficult — and the failure is rarely dramatic. The file simply stops being current, and nobody can say when it stopped.
- Supplier & Vendor Management
- Register FPOs, aggregators and suppliers; hold farmer and plot records beneath them
- Traceability
- Connect consignments through aggregation back to producers, with volumes that reconcile
- Due Diligence Platform
- Risk-assess by commodity, geography and supplier, and record what was done about it
- Buyer Requirements
- Decompose a customer requirement set, map it across the supply base, assess and report back
- Integration
- Built to connect to the systems your supply-chain data already lives in
Working Alongside the Systems You Already Report Into
Where an authority or a buyer already operates a traceability system, S360's role is to help organisations maintain the underlying supplier, farm, transaction and evidence records, and connect them to the reporting or traceability processes they need to operate.
Services are scoped around the organisation's requirements. Digital modules may be offered independently, as part of implementation engagements, or as integrated solutions, depending on client requirements.
The People Who Create the Record
In agriculture the first record is usually made by an FPO staff member or a village-level collector, often for a large group of farmers, often in a season when everything else is urgent. The quality of that record sets the ceiling for everything built on top of it.
We train the people who make it: farmers, FPO staff and board members, village collectors, aggregator teams, procurement officers, internal auditors and the managers who have to verify what it adds up to.
Who We Work With
Farmers · FPOs and producer groups · Aggregators and traders · Processors · Food manufacturers · Exporters · Brands and retail buyers
Tell Us About Your Supply Base
How many producers, how they reach you, and what your buyer is asking for. We will tell you what a defensible system looks like from here.