A passport for food
Historically, most food ingredients bought via long, opaque, industrial supply chains are treated as a commodity. Food provenance has been lost in the complexity of getting a carrot or a steak from the farm to your kitchen. There has been little or no information about where that ingredient started from, how it was produced, where it has travelled and how it has ended up on a plate. This is partly due to multiple intermediaries with disintegrated, separate nodes of the chain.
AgileChain enables distributors and wholesalers to buy from multiple farms, consolidate their produce at a centralised distribution centre and ship to customers in a farm more efficient and profitable way. It makes short, transparent supply chains viable.
AgileChain tracks and provides information about each product’s origins and production process with integrity right along the chain from your farm to your kitchen.
Instead of cooking with an anonymous slab of meat chefs can be empowered with much more information regarding the method of production (such as feeds), the area, the farm and even the name of the farmer, tracked all the way to your kitchen.
Think of it as a passport for food.
AgileChain enables procurers to purchase ingredients from national wholesalers alongside small agroecological farms - in one consolidated delivery.
So, how does it work?
Order via AgileChain’s online store similar to a supermarket for chefs.
A single point of order and billing offers produce from a range of producers, delivered by a one or more distributors.
Pulled pork sandwich example…
Imagine you want to add a pulled pork roll to your menu with locally sourced, high-welfare pork, some veg from local farms, a bun from a national distributor - all delivered in one consolidated delivery and invoice from your preferred distributor.
Ingredients
Pork shoulder - Pickington Free-Range Pork, Staffordshire
Onion - Home Farm, Laygrove, Gloucestershire
Carrot, Forrington Farm, Somerset
Fennel- Peegat’s Farm, Wiltshire
Red cabbage - Peegat’s Farm, Wiltshire
Flat leaf parsley - The Social Project, Bristol
Natural Yoghurt - Yoh Valley Yoghurt
Brioche Burger Bun - Brokes National Distributor
Mixed Leaves - The Social Project
A blend of small and local alongside mass produced or long chain
The pork is sourced locally from a small producer certified for high welfare standards and agro-ecological farming methods. The brioche bread buns come from a trusted national supplier. The vegetables sourced locally from small suppliers but the yogurt comes from an organic national brand.
All of these items are available to buy in one order on the AgileChain online store and there’s just one invoice to settle and one consolidated delivery at the date and time you choose.