Olam Food Ingredients (ofi) wins at Singapore Business Review Technology Excellence Awards 2026

The company developed a solution to ensure deforestation-free sourcing across its global cocoa and coffee supply chains.

Olam Food Ingredients (ofi) is redefining what sustainable sourcing looks like at global scale. At the Singapore Business Review Technology Excellence Awards 2026, the company was recognised with the ESG Tech – Food & Beverage award for its groundbreaking EUDR Digital Compliance & Traceability Platform - Track and Trace.

In an industry where supply chains are vast, fragmented, and often opaque, ofi has achieved something transformative: turning complexity into clarity. Built to meet the stringent requirements of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), Track and Trace replaces manual, error-prone compliance processes with a powerful, digitally orchestrated system that delivers end-to-end, verifiable proof of deforestation-free sourcing.

What truly sets Track and Trace apart is its system-of-systems architecture. At its core, the platform brings together geospatial intelligence, satellite analytics, and supply chain data into a single, intelligent ecosystem. Through digital enrolment of farmers and aggregation centres, the system captures farm boundaries using mobile GPS and existing data tools. This information is then integrated with enterprise procurement and supply chain platforms to create a unified compliance backbone. It also leverages satellite imagery analytics to detect forest loss and land-use changes, supported by a geospatial risk-scoring model. As a result, every transaction – whether it is procurement of cocoa or shipment of coffee - is digitally linked to a verified farm plot, enriched with risk scores, geospatial insights, and compliance evidence. The result is a seamless, auditable chain of custody from farm to customer.

This shift is operationally transformative. The platform has reduced manual compliance efforts by over 70%, whilst dramatically improving data accuracy and reliability. It also enables early detection of deforestation risks, allowing proactive supplier engagement and reducing non-compliance exposure.

The scale of impact is unprecedented. To date, ofi has digitally mapped over 800,000 farm plots across 29 origins, achieving 100% traceability-to-plot for EU-bound volumes. The system actively monitors more than 4.5 million hectares of land, enabling deforestation-free verification across its entire cocoa and coffee supply chains.

For customers, this translates into confidence—backed not by claims, but by data. Every shipment is supported by a robust digital evidence trail, including geolocated farm polygons, satellite validations, timestamps, and transaction histories. For regulators, it provides high-quality, audit-ready documentation aligned with evolving global compliance standards.

ofi’s Track and Trace has created a scalable foundation for the future of sustainable sourcing. This is more than a technology platform. It is a paradigm shift - turning traceability into trust, and compliance into competitive advantage.

The Singapore Business Review Technology Excellence Awards is the most prestigious awards programme for technological innovations, recognising exceptional companies in Singapore that are riding the digital disruption wave and leading the technological revolution and digital journeys of their respective industries.

The Singapore Business Review Technology Excellence Awards is presented by Singapore Business Review Magazine. To view the full list of winners, click here. If you want to join the 2027 awards programme and be acclaimed for your company's outstanding contributions in pursuit of technological innovation, please contact Danica Avila at +(65) 3158 1386 ext 217 or [email protected].