5 Common EUDR Supply Chain Pitfalls, and How TRACT Helps
As companies race to meet the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) requirements, one thing is becoming clear: even the most well-intentioned compliance strategies can fall short without the right tools and processes. Supply chain complexity, fragmented documentation, and unclear responsibilities make it easy to miss the mark.
Based on our work with leading agribusinesses and insights from our latest webinars, here are five common pitfalls companies face in EUDR compliance, and how TRACT helps address them.
Documentation Is Scattered and Incomplete
The Problem: Supply chain actors often store documents across multiple systems, inboxes, and formats. Teams struggle to keep track of what’s missing, what applies to which farms, and whether documents are up to date.
How TRACT Helps: TRACT’s documentation framework lets you upload, categorize, and link every piece of evidence to a specific farm, region, or shipment. It gives you a visual dashboard to see what you have, what’s missing, and where action is needed.
Supplier Engagement Is Unstructured
The Problem: Collecting information from suppliers is time-consuming, costly, and inconsistent. Many companies rely on one-off emails and spreadsheets, which makes collaboration and follow-up inefficient.
How TRACT Helps: TRACT provides a dedicated Supplier Portal that allows you to request, receive, and organize supplier information in one place. It’s easy to track all requests, deadlines, and review all information, which reduces cost, increases accuracy, and increases the completion rate of your requests.
Risk Assessments Rely on Generic or Outdated Data
The Problem: To comply with EUDR, you need to assess the risk of illegality in each supply chain. But companies often rely on country-level indexes that don’t reflect commodity-specific risks or sourcing realities.
How TRACT Helps: TRACT integrates data from the UN, World Bank, and its own partnerships (e.g., with Wageningen University) to provide tailored, commodity-specific risk insights. This helps you prioritize high-risk areas and take proactive steps to mitigate issues.
Duplicate Effort Across Teams and Shipments
The Problem: Even after gathering data, many companies have to re-upload and re-link this data for every shipment. This leads to wasted effort and inconsistent records.
How TRACT Helps: TRACT links all data to your supply chains and shipments. No need to re-upload documents, just connect the dots once, and the platform handles the rest. This improves efficiency and audit readiness.
No Central System to Monitor Progress or Prove Compliance
The Problem: Without a single source of truth, it’s hard to track progress, flag risks, or confidently engage with regulators. Teams may do the work but struggle to prove it.
How TRACT Helps: TRACT acts as your compliance command center. You can collect data, analyze that data, and share it with anyone you choose. When regulators or partners ask for proof, everything is ready.
Compliance under EUDR doesn’t have to be chaotic. With TRACT, you can bring order, structure, and visibility to every step of your supply chain due diligence.
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