Supplier Origin Evidence Check

Your buyers are asking five different questions about the same origin.

Compliance requests, sustainability questionnaires, deforestation due diligence, transition commitments, each buyer has their own format and their own timeline. This check identifies where your origin evidence is strong, where buyer requests may be creating hidden cost or risk, and how to turn what you know about your origins into a commercial asset rather than an ongoing burden.

2 to 3 minutes
9 questions
Instant results
No account required
Question 1 of 9

What best describes your role in the supply chain?

This shapes how we frame your results.

Exporter or trading company
We aggregate, process, and export commodity from multiple origins to international buyers.
Importer or regional distributor
We import commodity and supply to buyers, roasters, or processors in our market.
Cooperative or producer organisation
We represent and sell on behalf of our farmer members, directly or through intermediaries.
Vertically integrated, we produce and sell
We own or directly manage production and have direct buyer relationships.
Question 2 of 9

How many buyer relationships are you actively managing?

Buyers, roasters, brands, or processors you sell to regularly.

One or two
We have a concentrated buyer base.
Three to ten
A manageable portfolio of buyers with varying requirements.
More than ten
A large buyer base, sustainability requests are arriving from many directions simultaneously.
Question 3 of 9

What sustainability or compliance requests are your buyers currently making?

Select all that apply
EUDR due diligence data
Geolocation, deforestation risk evidence, traceability to farm level.
Sustainability questionnaires or assessments
EcoVadis, CDP, buyer-specific scorecards, or similar.
Carbon footprint or emissions data at origin
Farm-level or origin-level GHG data for buyer Scope 3 reporting.
Evidence of transition or regenerative practices
Buyers want to demonstrate supply chain progress against their own commitments.
Farmer-level data, income, livelihoods, or social conditions
Living income benchmarks, gender data, or smallholder welfare indicators.
No significant requests yet
Question 4 of 9

How are you currently responding to buyer sustainability requests?

Confidently, we have the data and can respond quickly
Our origin intelligence is in good shape and we can answer most requests without a major effort.
Managing, we respond but it takes significant effort each time
We get there, but each request triggers a data collection exercise from scratch.
Struggling, requests are outpacing our capacity to respond
We are behind on some requests or providing incomplete answers.
At risk, buyer relationships or contracts may be affected
We are aware that our inability to respond is becoming a commercial problem.
Question 5 of 9

How well do you understand your origins beyond certification and volume?

Think about your primary origins, what do you actually know about what is happening at farm and cooperative level?

Deep, farmer economics, land use, ecology, governance, transition potential
We have a multi-dimensional picture of our origins and can describe the system, not just the output.
Moderate, we know some dimensions well, others are gaps
Good on some aspects, weak on others, particularly on ecological or social dimensions.
Surface, certification status, volumes, and basic geography
We know the origin is certified and where it is. The system underneath is not well understood.
Minimal, we buy through intermediaries with limited direct origin knowledge
Question 6 of 9

Are any of the following commercial opportunities relevant to your origins?

Select all that apply
Sustainability or transition premiums from buyers
Buyers paying more for verified sustainable or transition-aligned supply.
Carbon or nature market revenue
Insetting credits, biodiversity credits, or voluntary carbon markets.
Transition finance or investment into our origins
External capital to fund farm-level transition programs we manage or co-manage.
Access to new buyers with strong sustainability requirements
Buyers we can't currently sell to because we can't meet their data or evidence requirements.
None of these are immediately relevant
Question 7 of 9

What data infrastructure do you currently have at origin?

Select all that apply
Farm-level geolocation or polygon mapping
We know where our farms are and can demonstrate deforestation-free status.
A farmer or producer registry
A maintained list of the producers we work with and their basic data.
Farm practice or sustainability data
Records of farming practices, input use, or sustainability indicators at farm level.
Farmer income or livelihood data
Minimal structured data, mainly certification records
Question 8 of 9

How urgent is your need to strengthen your origin intelligence?

Immediate, a buyer deadline or contract renewal is within 3 months
Near-term, within 6 months
Pressure is building and we want to get ahead of it.
Planning horizon, 6 to 18 months
No immediate deadline but we know this is coming.
Exploring, we're trying to understand the landscape
Question 9 of 9

What is the single most important question you need answered about your origins?

Are we EUDR-ready, and if not, what do we need to do?
How do we answer our buyers' sustainability requests without rebuilding data every time?
How do we position our origins as a competitive advantage, not just a compliance cost?
What would it take to unlock transition finance or premiums for our origins?
We need to understand our origins better before we can answer any of the above
Your directional read

Your origin evidence picture

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Buyer pressure
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Commercial opportunity
Where the gaps and opportunities are
Likely starting point for a conversation
Questions worth exploring on the call
    These results are indicative, not diagnostic. They are based on your responses and are designed to surface the right questions, not replace a full OriginWorks assessment.
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