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What is Orijin

Orijin is where a producer organisation keeps the record of its first mile: who the farmers are, where their land is, what was bought from them, what was paid, and what can be proven about all of it.

That record used to live in notebooks, in a warehouse ledger, and in three different spreadsheets that disagreed with each other. When a buyer asks for proof - a deforestation check, a farmer list, a due-diligence pack - the answer takes a week of reconciliation. Orijin is the attempt to make that answer take a minute, because the data was captured correctly the first time.

The two halves

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Orijin is two applications sharing one set of data.

The Field App runs on phones, in villages, usually with no signal. Field officers use it to register farmers, walk plot boundaries, run surveys and record purchases at the point of collection. It works offline and syncs when it next finds a connection.

The Dashboard is the web application your office uses. It’s where the field data lands, where you check and correct it, run compliance checks, manage processing and trades, and produce the reports that leave the building.

Most of this documentation is about the dashboard, because that’s where the decisions get made.

What it’s for

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Four things, in the order most organisations need them:

Know your supply base. Every farmer and every farm registered once, with a short code, so “Kwizera John” isn’t three different people across three seasons. Plots mapped, so their land is a boundary on a map rather than a village name.

Prove compliance. Mapped plots can be checked against satellite data for deforestation, which is what EUDR asks of anyone selling into the EU. The result is a due-diligence report you can hand to a buyer.

Trace what you buy and sell. A purchase from a farmer is a Collection. Collections get combined, processed, bagged and sold. Orijin keeps that chain connected, so a lot leaving your warehouse can be traced back to the farms it came from.

Pay people, and show that you did. Payments are recorded against the collection they settle - in cash or through mobile money - and every approval and edit is in the audit log.

What Orijin is not

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It is not an accounting system, and it is not a substitute for your ERP. It is the layer underneath both: the primary record of the farms, the purchases and the evidence.

It also does not decide anything for you. Deforestation checks return a risk level from satellite analysis; whether that means you buy from that plot is your call, and Orijin records the call you made.

Next

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