Supply-chain provenance ledger for a US coffee importer
Specialty coffee importer, Seattle
- Challenge
- Buyers increasingly asked for verifiable origin and fair-trade documentation, but the paper trail from farm to warehouse passed through five intermediaries and could be neither verified nor easily shown to retail customers at point of sale.
- Solution
- AGS built a permissioned blockchain ledger recording custody transfers from farm cooperative through export, shipping and roasting, with a QR code on retail packaging that lets a customer see the verified chain. Each participant signs their own leg cryptographically.
- Results
- Provenance verified end-to-end for 100% of tracked lots
- 5 supply-chain participants onboarded to the ledger
- Retail partners citing verified origin in 3 new listing agreements