geospatial solutions

Consumer Goods

Uncover the links in your supply chain and the supply chains of your competitors to better inform strategic decisions and make more progress against sustainability goals.

Modern consumer goods companies must make global decisions on a daily basis with limited information. There is insufficient visibility into the robustness of their increasingly lean supply chains and little accountability for the sustainability of their increasing global sourcing network. To add to these challenges, strategic decisions cannot be made in a vacuum, yet competitive analysis consistently lacks hard data.

Orbital Insight’s GO platform provides unprecedented transparency into supply chains allowing you to make informed strategic decisions that drive revenue and reduce risk.

"To improve the visibility and traceability of our commodity supply chains, we’re using satellite imagery, geolocation data, blockchain and AI. We’re part of Global Forest Watch, a group of companies developing radar technology to detect deforestation more quickly and accurately. In 2020, we began working with US geospatial analytics specialist Orbital Insight to get data around the ‘first mile’ in our supply chains. Working with Google Cloud, we then refine this data to get accurate images of the forests, biodiversity and water cycles that intersect our supply chain.

Unilever, Annual Report

How we’re using technology to help end deforestation.

"What Orbital Insight is selling is truths about the world."

Bloomberg Businessweek

Use Cases

Supply Chain Traceability

Discover, map and monitor the multi-tier relationships that make up the supply chain networks that you and your competitors rely on. Uncover the logistical links between factories, farms, suppliers, stores, and distribution facilities on a global scale.

Sustainable Sourcing

Traceability is the first step in identifying and course-correcting unsustainable practices, particularly in industries like palm, soy, paper pulp and rubber. Ensure that you and your partners are meeting your commitments to sustainability by tracing your supply to its source.

Site Monitoring

Track activity at your suppliers to be alerted of any anomalous behaviour. Track activity at your competitors to seize new opportunities. Track activity at your customers to optimize operational decisions.

Showcases

Supply Chain Visibility

Traceability is the first step in identifying and course-correcting unsustainable practices. While most supply chains in commodities such as palm, soy, paper pulp, and rubber are opaque, with little visibility beyond the first tier, Orbital Insight’s digital transformation approach offers an empirical, real-time, and economical alternative.

Orbital Insight unveils additional sourcing relationships beyond those assumed to be in your supply chain. Orbital Insight’s digital approach visualizes a network of the farms, refineries, ports, mills, and silos associated with your business.

Historical and Ongoing Deforestation Monitoring

Deforestation commodities have the world’s most complex supply chains, making sustainable sourcing seem impossible. Sourced from over 800 million global devices, the solution identifies problematic suppliers connected to deforestation.

GO tracks supplier sustainability practices by automatically detecting and alerting you to changes in plantation activity such as the clearing of virgin rainforest, so you can make true social and economic progress.

Orbital Insight Deforestation Monitoring in Sumatra

Success Story: Illegal Deforestation Identified in Matopiba

By tracking logistical movements from a few key Brazilian suppliers, Orbital Insight uncovered more than 200 soy assets, including one built on cleared land in the vulnerable Matopiba region.

Become a Leader in Sustainable Sourcing

Do you have real-time data that goes beyond your suppliers to their suppliers’ suppliers? Can you map back to the very first mile? Is your supply chain responsible for deforestation?

Ongoing geospatial monitoring can track the relationship strength between nodes in the supply chain, so that you can take action.
Real-time traceability and actionable deforestation analytics make sustainability possible. You now have the power to meet deforestation commitments and become a market leader in sustainable sourcing.

Benefits

Global Methodology

Works in various countries, sectors and commodities.

Objective

Not dependent on data from your suppliers.

Scalable & Cost-Effective

Geospatial analytics of big data; no need for manual data entry.

Real-time

Updated data available daily.