SYNE Trust creates a verifiable digital chain of custody for physical products, materials and their environmental attributes - from origin to transformation, movement, ownership and end of life. It's trust infrastructure for the provenance, movement, transformation and environmental integrity of physical goods, built on the same supply-chain data that underwrites SYNE Climate Risk Management's supply-chain risk category.
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A Trust Graph, not a spreadsheet: every entity carries a persistent identity, every movement is an event, every claim carries its own evidence - so the system can answer not just "where did this come from," but "what happened to it along the way."
Persistent digital identities for every supplier, producer, farm, factory, warehouse, batch, shipment and certificate. Nothing enters the trust network without an identity.
Country, exact location, geolocation polygon, land-use history and deforestation status - built as an Origin Graph (Product → Batch → Producer → Plot → Coordinates), not a document repository.
Every movement becomes a Trust Event - who, what, where, when, quantity, previous and new owner, evidence and confidence - from forest plot to end of life.
A Material Transformation Ledger for every input-process-output step - coffee cherry to roasted coffee, timber to packaging - tracking yield, loss, waste and energy at each stage.
Carbon, water, land and waste attributes carried by every material, product and batch - so each one has both physical provenance and environmental provenance.
Every claim carries an evidence chain - satellite imagery, land title, IoT data, customs documentation - and a trust status from Declared through to Continuously Assured.
A SYNE Trust Passport for every product and batch - origin, chain of custody, carbon and water footprint, deforestation status and Trust Score - exposed via QR, API, portal or regulatory interface.
Trust provides the evidence; SYNE Climate Risk Management converts it into physical, transition, nature, supply-chain and data-integrity risk - not a second, isolated risk database.
The eight layers above are delivered as seven distinct, composable modules - adopt what you need, expand as your traceability requirements grow.
Digital identities for organisations, products, batches, assets and locations.
Chain-of-custody and provenance, from forest plot or mine to finished product.
Document, satellite, IoT, transaction and regulatory evidence, attached to every claim.
Validation, verification, attestation and continuous assurance.
The digital product or asset passport - exposed to whoever needs to check it.
Carbon, water, nature, climate and supply-chain attributes, in one queryable layer.
Exposes trusted data to ERP, procurement, banks, insurers, regulators, SYNE Ratings, carbon markets and customers - the same evidence, read by every system that needs it.
Each layer is tracked continuously and attached to the same product record - not reconstructed from supplier questionnaires once a year.
Raw materials and components followed from source through to finished product.
Tier-1, tier-2 and tier-3 suppliers mapped against the same 2M+ supplier register used platform-wide.
Origin claims checked against independent monitoring data, not taken on a supplier's word.
Scope 3 emissions calculated at product level, not allocated from a category-wide average.
A digital, immutable custody trail from raw material to shelf - not a folder of PDFs.
The same trace record, published as a product passport or exported for a regulator.
A product's material tracking, supplier map, origin verification and emissions figure all live on the same record - so a customer-facing claim and a regulator's audit read from identical data.
A finished product is only as traceable as its least-tracked component - so tracking starts at the raw-material level, not at the finished SKU.
Every input material is registered and tracked from the point it enters the supply chain, not from the point it reaches a tier-1 supplier.
Tracking resolves to the specific batch or lot - so a single contaminated or non-compliant input can be isolated without a full-line recall.
The full bill of materials is mapped tier by tier, so a single finished product resolves to every input that went into it.
Location and custody status update as materials move - not reconciled retrospectively at month-end.
Most traceability efforts stop at tier 1. SYNE Trust extends into tier 2 and tier 3 - because that's usually where the real exposure sits.
Suppliers are mapped beyond the direct relationship, down to the sub-suppliers most traceability programs never reach.
Each supplier in the trace carries its own risk and emissions profile from the shared 2M+ supplier register - not a generic category assumption.
Configurable disclosure requirements flow down automatically as new sub-suppliers are added to a trace.
When a supplier substitutes an input source, the change is logged and the trace record - and its risk profile - updates automatically.
A certificate says where a material came from. Independent monitoring data confirms it - the difference between a claim and a verified fact.
Stated sourcing locations are checked against SYNE Climate Risk Management's land and border monitoring data, not accepted on documentation alone.
Organic, fair-trade and other certifications are checked for validity and expiry, not just filed as a scanned document.
Land-use monitoring at the stated origin confirms sourcing is free of recent deforestation - built for EUDR-aligned reporting.
High-risk material categories are cross-checked against known conflict and ethical-sourcing risk zones.
Emissions attribution follows the same trace record used for origin and custody - so the emissions figure and the supply-chain map are always the same fact.
Emissions are calculated for the specific product and batch, drawing on the same 3M+ emission-factor library used across the platform.
Material and process-specific emission factors replace spend-based proxies wherever primary activity data is available.
Both boundaries are calculated and tagged separately, so the right figure is used for the right disclosure or claim.
Product lines and supplier tiers are ranked by emissions contribution, so reduction effort goes where it actually matters.
Every handoff, transformation and certification along the chain is logged immutably - the record a customer or auditor can actually trust.
Every custody handoff is logged the moment it happens, replacing the paper trail that usually breaks somewhere between tier 1 and tier 3.
Documentation is attached directly to the product record, not stored separately from the trace it's meant to support.
Every edit, addition and verification event is timestamped and preserved - nothing is overwritten, only appended.
Certificates and compliance documents are tracked for expiry, with renewal alerts sent before a gap opens in the record.
The same underlying trace becomes a consumer-facing product story or a regulator-ready compliance export - without maintaining two separate systems.
A scannable, product-specific record of origin, materials and emissions - built to match incoming EU digital product passport requirements.
QR-code access to a simplified, consumer-readable version of the same trace record - no separate content team required.
EUDR, CSRD Scope 3 and customs documentation generated directly from the trace record, in the format each regulator expects.
Business customers get a scorecard view of a supplier's traced products - the same data a regulator would see, formatted for procurement.
The same product record supports two distinct outputs - internal visibility for supply-chain and procurement teams, and external disclosure for customers and regulators.
Full multi-tier supplier maps, substitution alerts and emissions hotspots - the operational detail a sourcing team needs to actually manage supply-chain risk.
A simplified product passport or a regulator-formatted export - the same underlying data, presented for the audience that's reading it.
Coverage looks impressive at tier 1 - the real test is what happens as you go deeper. Every trace carries an explicit confidence figure at every tier, so nothing is silently assumed once verification gets harder.
A cradle-to-grave record is useful well beyond the supply-chain team that builds it.
Multi-tier supplier visibility that turns supply-chain risk from an annual survey into a continuously updated register.
Consumer-facing product passports and origin claims that hold up to scrutiny - not just a marketing sustainability story.
Trade-finance due diligence backed by verified origin and custody records, not self-reported shipping documents alone.
EUDR, CSRD Scope 3 and customs-ready exports with a clear data lineage back to origin verification.
Customs and trade-enforcement visibility into origin and material claims at national scale, not spot-checked at the border.
Independent verification of ethical-sourcing and deforestation-free claims - evidence, not a company's own assurance.
SYNE Trust isn't a standalone tracking tool - it's the supply-chain evidence base the rest of the platform scores, verifies and discloses against.
Multi-tier supplier and material data underwrites the supply-chain risk category, while satellite and land-monitoring data checks stated origins against independent evidence before a claim is published.
Product-level emissions attribution feeds directly into Scope 3 disclosure, with a full audit trail back to source.
Verified custody and origin records support trade-finance underwriting for cross-border transactions.
SYNE Ratings draws on this same trace data - kept arm's-length - for its independent supplier ratings.
SYNE doesn't compress "what happened," "what was emitted," "can we believe it" and "what could go wrong" into a single number. Each stays distinct, then flows into the next.
EUDR needs origin, geolocation, supplier, batch, chain of custody, deforestation evidence and legal compliance - all eight trust layers, applied to seven focus commodities. The same evidence chain then extends to every other framework that needs provenance.
Instead of asking suppliers what percentage have environmental risk assessments, SYNE Ratings and Green Finance can query the trust graph directly.
Verified suppliers ÷ total suppliers.
Traceable procurement volume ÷ total procurement volume.
Procurement volume with validated evidence ÷ total procurement volume.
Suppliers with geospatial risk assessment ÷ total suppliers.
Procurement volume with verified emissions data ÷ total procurement volume.
Relevant procurement volume with complete EUDR evidence ÷ total relevant volume.
A bank financing a coffee exporter can see product → origin → supplier → land → climate risk → environmental attributes → chain of custody → buyer, then price a Trust-adjusted risk across financial, supply-chain, climate and integrity dimensions - supporting sustainability-linked trade finance, green supply-chain finance, commodity finance and supplier finance through Green Finance and SYNE Plus.
Illustrative examples of SYNE Trust deployed across sectors.
Challenge: Cotton sourcing claims stopped at the tier-1 mill, with no visibility into farm-level origin or labour practices further upstream.
Extending traceability to tier 3 identified two farm clusters with land-use red flags before the next collection launched - avoiding a sourcing claim the brand couldn't have defended.
Challenge: Standard supplier self-declarations couldn't be independently verified for tantalum and tin sourcing.
Cross-checking supplier declarations against independent sourcing-risk data caught a single non-compliant sub-supplier before it reached the finished product.
Challenge: No consistent way to attribute product-level emissions across ingredients sourced from a dozen different growing regions.
Product-level emissions attribution replaced a single category-average figure with a real number for every SKU on the shelf.
Challenge: Customers were asking for proof behind sustainability claims that marketing alone couldn't substantiate.
The same trace record that satisfied the compliance team now powers a customer-facing passport - no separate content or verification process required.
Once a product is traced and verified, here's where organisations typically take it next.
Bring your bill of materials and supplier list - or start from a single product line. Walk away with a live view of how far your supply chain actually traces.