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How Does Trase Map Supply Chains?
How Does Trase Map Supply Chains?

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For the past decade, Trase data, toolkits and insights have been at the forefront of global efforts on supply chain transparency. The world needs actionable, relevant and high-quality intelligence to ensure economic resilience and sustainable commodity systems, and Trase is stepping to the fore.”

Dr Nicola Ranger, Director of the Resilient Planet Finance Lab of the University of Oxford, and co-Director of the UK Integrating Finance and Biodiversity Programme

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The supply chain mapping at the core of Trase balances scale and data resolution

It uses an enhanced form of material flow analysis called Spatially Explicit Information on Production to Consumption Systems (SEI-PCS).

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Trase's approach offers different capabilities

  • Systematically link individual supply chain actors to specific, subnational production regions, and the sustainability risks and investment opportunities associated with those regions.
  • Identify the individual companies that export, ship and import a given traded commodity.
  • Cover all of the exports of a given commodity from a given country of production.

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