Powerchain combines value chain mapping
Powerchain combines value chain mapping, supply chain risk analysis and risk mitigation with the opportunities offered by blockchain technology in an elegant way to enhance traceability in (food) supply chains. The Powerchain is a decentralized, distributed platform that allows secure and cost-effective sharing of (sensitive) data between supply chain participants, making use of the blockchain technology and combining it with mobile decentralized apps, QR coding, data gathering applications and other technologies. The ImpactBuying Powerchain application is built on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain platform. Blockchain encrypts all actions performed with an object into code. This encryption cannot be removed, altered nor omitted. Blockchain gives data ownership back to users, as users have full control and transparency over their data and the data is open (i.e. participants of the blockchain see that transactions happen).
This blockchain based solution provides a full line of communication between producers and consumers, and all actors in between. The Powerchain can be used as a traceability solution in combination with the ImpactBuying Platform. The Powerchain can be used for each product or group of products and is ideal for tracking high risk items in real-time. The communication between producer and consumer can be enhanced with a QR code generator. With this, ImpactBuying introduces the concept Tip2Farmer, allowing consumers to send a direct financial donation to the farmer or grower through the Powerchain app.
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An IT tool without timely, accurate and complete information is an empty shell. We do essential supply chain mapping, providing our customers with evidence for product safety, social compliance and environmental risks. With a dedicated expert team speaking 18 languages, we are in close contact with all actors in our customers’ supply chain to collect the relevant data. We are accredited against the ISAE3402, to ensure that the mandate we receive from our clients is captured in agreed processes and data quality checks. We offer full support with gathering, verifying and validating your data, ensuring the data can be trusted and turned into relevant information.
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Our Team Data Services helps you to ensure that all your data across ImpactBuying platforms is accurate, timely and complete. This gives you the peace of mind that your risks are covered within the validity period and enables you to use the data for efficient supply chain management and risk mitigation. No need to say that this is vital for well-informed decision making. Our expert team of supply chain analysts speaks more than 18 languages and works in every time zone. Following a set-up process, we offer data gathering, verification, validation, result analysis and support for compliancy issues.
Business is about collaboration between individuals and individual organizations – and even more when talking about sustainable business. Do we know all individuals in our supply chain?
We created the True-Code.org initiative because, like so many of us working with World Wide Supply Chains, we know that the widespread availability of reliable supply chain data is critical to the transition to a more sustainable future. If consumers and others can be sure which products are genuinely sustainable and which not, then demand – and therefore supply – will shift rapidly in the right direction.
Our vision therefore is for a world where verified, cost effective and end-to-end transparency for every product supply chain is widely available to consumers and others. That is why, at True-Code, we believe that supply chain transparency should be as pre-competitive as possible. At True-code.org we think that this system can be improved to the benefit of all parties – small-holders, buying groups and certification schemes – while ultimately providing better assurance to the end customer. We do this by:
- Creating a facility passport for each individual small-holder farmer – at no added cost to them – so that they can provide better evidence of their sustainability credentials
- Improving data collection so that cooperatives and other buying groups can strengthen their sustainability value proposition to their customers
- Enabling existing auditors and certification schemes to verify these data
Organizations cannot claim what they do not know. The majority of the sustainability issues in the supply chain are location related and connected to the first mile: (small-holder) farmers. The starting point for the True-code is therefore the identification of each individual location. We know that we have to do that identification at no cost as the majority of the (small-holder) farmers cannot bare those costs. A free facility passport offers chances for all: end2end. The fields of the True-code facility passport are based on the simple True-code data model. Besides the True-code number only 3 fields are public. The rest of the fields are collected but stay private.
- product classification
- country
- activity
ImpactBuying offers the go-to solution to collect, verify and report on packaging data.
Comply with new regulations and sustainability claims while saving time. European legislation and voluntary plastic reduction commitments are becoming essential in the retail landscape. To handle the challenges of today, we make sure that you have packaging data you can trust, report and act on.
To adhere to the expectations of conscious consumers and (upcoming) legislation, you need packaging solutions to collect data from your (sub-)suppliers and report progress while making sure the data is accurately, timely and complete. At ImpactBuying, we can assist you in your packaging journey while taking durability, recycling, water and energy waste, pollution and biodegradability into consideration. In our module, mandatory labelling and packaging claims on pack are also included.
With our packaging solutions, you will be able to collect and report on primary, secondary and tertiary packaging in line with GS1 standards. Do you want to know more about the solutions? Download the Packaging factsheet here.
Collect
the right CSR packaging data through our standardized formats
Visualise
your packaging commitments and status of KPI’s
Track
the progress and meet (inter)national guidelines and legislation
Identify
products with packaging you need to improve or eliminate
Reporting
made easy with a packaging dashboard to analyze the data
Support
to collect and verify packaging data throughout the supply chain
