Supply Base

Supply Base is who you buy from. Everything else in Orijin - compliance, traceability, payments - is built on top of it, which means the quality of your supply base sets the ceiling for everything downstream.

Remember: a farm is shown as a Supplier.

What’s in this section

Suppliers - the farms. Each has a short code, a contact person (the farmer), plots, collections and history.

Persons - the people. Farmers, contacts, and anyone else recorded by name. A person exists independently of any one farm.

Supplier map - your whole supply base as points and boundaries on a map.

Analytics - Farm summaries, Plot dashboard, Plot summaries: coverage, size distribution, mapping progress and the shape of your base.

The order to do things in

1. Add the supplier - farm and farmer together, in one short form.
2. Add its plots and map them - this is the step that unlocks compliance. An unmapped plot cannot be checked.
3. Set certification status if it applies to your organisation.
4. Everything else - surveys, collections, payments - now has something to attach to.

Most organisations do steps 1 and 2 in the field, on phones, and only correct them in the dashboard. That’s the intended shape: capture once, at the source.

Getting data in at scale

If you’re starting with an existing farmer list rather than registering one at a time, don’t type it in. See Import data in bulk - suppliers, farmers and plot boundaries can all be uploaded, including GeoJSON and KML map files.

The number that matters

Mapping coverage - the share of your plots that have a saved boundary or GPS point. It’s the leading indicator for whether you’ll be able to produce a credible EUDR report when a buyer asks. Track it on the Plot dashboard.