How BCK Intermark digitised coffee procurement and made EUDR part of the workflow
Challenge
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires that coffee placed on the EU market is deforestation-free, legally produced and traceable to the plot. That evidence has to be built from farmer-level data, captured as coffee is bought rather than reconstructed afterwards.
BCK Intermark managed coffee procurement and operations without a single digital system tying farmer records and purchases together. Farmer data and transaction records sat apart from each other, which made assembling EUDR evidence a separate manual exercise.
The company wanted procurement digitised and compliance built into the same process, so that meeting EUDR did not mean running a second workflow alongside the business.
Approach
TRST01 deployed TRST01Chain to digitise procurement and to fold EUDR compliance into the same operational flow.
- Digitised coffee procurement and day-to-day operations on one platform.
- Brought farmer data management into a single digital record.
- Enabled transaction recording as coffee moves through procurement.
- Connected the captured data to EUDR compliance outputs.
Solution
With TRST01Chain in place, farmer data, transactions and compliance sit in one streamlined workflow.
- Digitised coffee procurement and operations.
- Farmer data management on a single platform.
- Transaction recording through the procurement chain.
- EUDR compliance produced from the same captured data, in one workflow.
Results
What’s next
With procurement digitised, BCK Intermark can extend the same workflow across more of its sourcing base as EUDR enforcement approaches.
