Transparent Trade
Solution
Trade smarter and faster with more transparency, efficiency, trust and profitability from grower to consumer.
Transparent Trade (TT) Yarn - Bluechip digital asset.
Solutions
Transactions
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Using the power of digital trade, Partners can effortlessly send orders, remit and receive spot and forward enquiries and offers in real time and settle contracts with confidence and trust driving more transparency, efficient and impact at scale.
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Commitments
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Commitments are pre-transactional frame contract agreements between multiple Partners to collaborate, nominate and transact fibre, yarn, fabric and other products with enhanced levels of transparency, integrity, traceability and verified impact from grower to consumer.
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BlueTrace™ System
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BlueTrace™ System introduces a global Permanent Bale Identification (PBI) tracking system that includes real-time physical and digital transactional traceability, quality assurance on fibre and yarn and fabric.
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Transparency
starts with Trust.
Accelerate transactions with more transparency, efficiency, trust, equity and impact—ensuring that everyone benefits from grower to consumer.
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Connect and Trade All in One Place.
Simplify your life with one technology solution that includes everything you need to trade and manage all of your transactions and impact reporting—all in one place.
Complex
Simple, All in One Place
Trade Smarter. Grow Faster.
Effortlessly remit, receive and manage orders, enquires, offers and commitments and settle transactions in real-time with trusted Partners—anytime and anywhere.
Trade Anytime, Anywhere
Our approach ensures that everyone from grower to brand can transform trade for good.
Using Connect, Sourcery Partners can trade all fibre, yarn, fabric and select finished goods in nearly all major fibre producing and manufacturer regions around the world.
Traded Fibre and Products
Fibre
Inputs (seed, soil nutrients, crop protection)
Raw unprocessed cotton (seed cotton)
Cotton Lint (processed fibre/bales)
Processor fibre bi-products (linters, motes, comber noils, flats)
Pre-consumer industrial waste (yarn, thread, cuttings)
Products
Cotton and blended cotton yarn (min 25%) yarn (0s - 120s)
Cotton fabric and blended fabric (min 25)
Select Finished Products (t-shirts, bedding, etc.)
Post-consumer products as viable recycled feedstocks for renewed and recycled products.
Although we are rooted in cotton, fibre and textiles, Sourcery will soon be opening up Connect Platform to include wool, viscose, flax linen, synthetics and next-gen fibres and related textiles and products. Whats more is that as we grow, we have plans underday to build similar Connect Platform environments for other agri- and select hard commodities in the near future as our Partners trade a lot more than just fibre and textiles. Learn more here.
Shifting the trade
paradigm
Sourcery aims to shift the trade paradigm by transforming how commercial actors engage, communicate, trade, finance and ship ensuring each transaction is more transparent, efficient, secure and builds mutual trust from grower to consumer—transforming trade for good.
Transactions
Through Sourcery Connect, direct engagement, communication and intelligent negotiation helps to accelerate deal flow and streamline the transaction process enabling our Partners to trade smarter, grow faster and accelerate impact at scale.
Effortlessly send orders, directly remit and receive and manage all enquiries and offers and settle contracts in real-time—all in one place.
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Brand Partner and select Manufacturer Partners (Assembly/CMT) can send ‘Orders’ on finished product and fabric to ensure upstream Partners are prepared to provide transparency, traceability and verified impact on fibre, yarn and fabric from grower to finished product.
Learn more about Sourcery “API first” approach to integration. Click here .
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Manufacturer and Trade Partners can effortlessly remit, receive and manage all of your spot and forward enquires for fibre, yarn and fabric in one place engaging and trading with more sellers with transparency, efficiency, security and trust with every transaction.
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Grower, Manufacturer and Trade Partners can effortlessly remit, receive and manage all of your spot and forward offers for fibre, yarn and fabric in one place engaging and trading with more buyers with transparency, efficiency, security and trust with every transaction.
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Coming soon.
Vertical enterprises can ‘Transfer” goods between two (2) or more owned, operated or contracted facilities that are registered as a Verified Place in Connect. Transfer does not require a direct commercial transaction to take place, but does require proper transfer documents such as shipping records, inventory logs and balance sheet reconciliation verification.
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Direct Trade enables Sourcery Growers, Aggregator and Processor Partners to record all transactions on raw materials at the farm gate, market or processor facility ensuring traceability down the the farm level.
Available only to Grower Partners who have adopted the Impact and Assurance Grower Essentials (GE 1-2) Protocol.
Learn more here.
Commitments
Looking to build new—or strengthen existing—supply networks with greater transparency, traceability, price stability, and verified impact across agri-commodities and products?
Commitments are pre-transactional frame (forward) contracts facilitated by Sourcery via the Connect Platform, designed to bring together multiple Partners (three or more) to collaborate and co-create reliable, trusted trading networks from grower to brand. Each Commitment specifies the origin, type, quantity, quality, and price of the traded commodity or product and includes provisions and contingencies that mitigate commercial performance risk and drive more impact and progress at scale.
Commitments can be initiated by a Brand or a selected Manufacturer Partner—as designated Nominating Partner(s)—who define which materials, products and vendors are suitable for the products they are producing and the their impact goals.
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A Vertical Commitment includes multi-tier (Tier 1-4) frame contracts agreement(s) between a ‘Nominating Partner’ (usually a Brand or Tier 1 or 2 Manufacturer), a Grower Partner (and/or) and one or more Manufacturer Partners or Trade Partners outlining commercial, transparency and impact requirements that is driven by contractual purchase intent on fibre, yarn (and fabric) and finished goods.
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A Horizontal Commitment includes single tier (Tier 2 or Tier 3) frame contracts agreement(s) between two (2) or more Manufacturer Partners who choose to purchase fibre, yarn or fabric together.
Horizontal Commitments define commercial, impact and traceability requirements that ensure future purchase intent.
Horizontal Commitments can be formed within any Vertical Commitment Agreement structure where two (2) or more Manufacturers (e.g. spinners, fabric mills, assembly/CMT ) exist within the same tier consolidating and aggregating enquiries and offers through Sourcery on their own or on behalf of a Nominating Partner. (e.g. a Brand).
How It Works
The Commitment process follows a structured and simple three-step approach:
Planning – Set goals, identify needs, and define product specifications
Engagement – Connect with growers and manufacturers aligned with those goals
Commitment – Finalize agreements that lock in quality, price, delivery, transparency and impact outcomes
Throughout the entire process, Sourcery’s team of engagement and trade professionals work closely with all Partners to ensure collaboration, fairness, and clarity—helping to align commercial and impact outcomes across the entire value chain, from grower to consumer.
Verified Places
The Connect Platform ‘Places’ enables are Partners to register their land parcels, crop areas and facilities and verify each ‘Place’ ensuring that all transactions include verified proof of origin from any farm, facility or warehouse—anywhere in the world.
Real-Time Traceability
The Sourcery Connect is the only system that enables real-time traceability while you transact.
Real World Trade
Most traceability technologies were built on an outdated and inaccurate mental model—imagining supply chains as linear sequences of static, loyal relationships, uniform materials, and repetitive transactions. But the reality is very different.
Supply chains are not linear "chains" at all. They are dynamic, adaptive networks—complex webs of suppliers, vendors, and buyers whose relationships are intermittent, fast-moving, and often formed or dissolved instantly based on availability, price, quality, and speed.
That’s why linear traceability systems simply don’t work. They offer only a snapshot in time, failing to capture the dynamic, real-world nature of trade as transactions occur from fibre to finished goods. These systems miss the nuance, speed, and context that define modern global commerce.
Together with our Partners, Sourcery built Connect for the real world—delivering real-time traceability as ‘raw footage’ that reflects how trade actually happens, when it happens, across the value chain and around the world.
Transparent Trade Modules
Transparent, Secure and Equitable Trade
At Sourcery, we believe your commercial data is your business. That’s why we built Connect—a platform designed to ensure that all transactional and chain-of-custody data is fully owned and controlled by you, at all times. With Connect, your data is private, secure, and positioned to generate long-term value for your business.
Security & Equity
All Partner transactional data is stored in a private Partner Data Vault (PDV)—accessible only by you, and only with your explicit permission. Access requires biometric verification through Connect, ensuring that your information remains protected and confidential.
But it doesn’t stop at security—Connect creates opportunity.
Partners can choose to license their data to approved third parties by issuing Bluechip digital assets (pictured) on the upcoming Bluechip Exchange (see below) data marketplace.
This unlocks new streams of revenue and profitability, allowing you to turn verified data into real commercial equity.
Bluechip Exchange (BCX)
The Bluechip Exchange (BCX) is a data marketplace built into the Connect Platform*, enabling Partners and third parties to buy and sell Bluechip digital assets or Bluechips (pictured above). BCX ensures that transactional, social, and environmental data is accessible and delivers more meaningful, measurable, and equitable impact at scale.
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*Bluechip Exchange concept is under development. Prospective Impact Partner logos are protected under copyright. Used for demonstration purposes only and does not imply existing partnership with Sourcery.
Deeper Traceability with BlueTrace™
For Partners seeking to go beyond digital chain-of-custody, BlueTrace™ offers next-level traceability at the batch and physical product level.
Powered by a universal Permanent Bale Identification (PBI) system that starts on fibre and continues through to fabric, BlueTrace™ enables Partners to gain deeper insights into origin, quality, composition, and integrity verification across fibre, yarn, and fabric as it moves from bale to brand.
Whether you're managing raw materials or finished goods, BlueTrace™ ensures complete traceability and confidence from grower to retailer.
BlueTrace™ System puts trusted transparency, quality and integrity in your hands (literally).
How It Works
Adopting the BlueTrace™ System simple and requires process following a structured and simple four step approach:
Order Labels - Purchase pre-serialized BlueTrace™ System labels from select label and printing partners including Avery Dennison and others at least three (3) months in advance of fibre or raw material processing.
Engage Assurance Partner - Engage a Sourcery Assurance Partner to plan and schedule facility and process audit and sample drawing plan that following Sourcery BlueTrace™ System Product Assurance Protocol.
Upload and Scan Product - With Assurance Partner Connect Platform mobile device a bale is registered on Connect and data is attached to the Transparent Trade (TT) Bluechip for the registered facility. Downstream Partners can then use their own mobile device and simply scan any bale, cone of yarn, or roll of fabric equipped with a BlueTrace™ System tag during devanning, managing inventory, preparing for laydown, loading a creel, or cutting fabric to get the origin, product quality and integrity information required.
Seamless Integration - Designed for flexibility, BlueTrace™ System works seamlessly alongside any existing PBI system, ERP, PLM in any fibre, product or in any geography. It also be integrated with third-party traceability technology providers (Textile Genesis)—giving you deeper visibility without losing control of your data or disruption of the processes and platform already in use.
*BlueTrace System is currently underdevelopment and is available as a additional add-on within the Connect Platform for participating processors (gins). Additional fees may apply for printers, labels and integration.
Intelligent Verification
Tired of multiple audits, scope certificates and unnecessary paperwork, costly and burdensome administration and data entry?
Connect introduces digital third-party verification (TPV) using automated data triangulation verification and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) technology borrowed from the banking industry combined with traditional human-led verification by Sourcery Assurance Partners.
Assurance Partners
*Through advanced technology and its Assurance Partner network, Sourcery conducts is own Place Verification that includes a site, facility and process assessment at no additional cost to our Partners.
Built for the Trade
By The Trade.
At last—a technology solution that doesn’t just support more traceability, transparency and visibility across commodity trade—it reimagines what’s possible across for our sector to drive more value and impact at scale by building trust—this is what it means to transform trade for good.
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Beyond Blockchain.
At Sourcery, we know that transparency and traceability aren't driven by technology alone—they are built on human relationships, communication, and mutual trust.
Too many organizations believe they can build a platform, create a blockchain database, sell it (or mandate its use), and expect to achieve meaningful outcomes. But real transparency, traceability, and impact cannot be bought or forced—they must be earned.
In an industry where knowledge, relationships, and trade channels are core to our Partners business, we built Connect to be a platform you can trust.
One that ensures traceability benefits our Partners, rather than threatening their margins, reputation, or commercial interests unlike other solutions.
As a member-owned sourcing and digital trade platform, we work with our Partners—before, during, and after every trade—supported by people, policies, and tools designed to scale trust and transparency without compromising the business relationships that matter most in trade.
Enhanced Data Security, Privacy and Equity
Connect was built to give Sourcery Partners full ownership not only of the technology itself, but control and ownership of their transactional and impact data ensuring it always remains confidential, safe and secure in each users Partner Data Vault (PDV).
Trust Line
As commercially neutral trade facilitators, the Sourcery Engagement team works closely with our Partners through the Trust Line to ensure transparent, efficiency, safe and honest trade for before, during and following every transaction on Connect.
Partners can register trade disputes and payment defaults with Trust Line, which will be followed by a post-transaction facilitation process and possible binding arbitration between buyer and seller transacting on the Connect. Requires Sourcery Partner membership. Above pictured Trust Line screens are currently under development, however, Partner can report an issue today by following the link below.
Innovative Finance
More efficient and scalable grower and trade finance solutions to leverage the full commercial and environmental benefits of Sourcery.
As a Partner, Sourcery and our Impact Finance Partners will support your organisation in developing fit-for-purpose financing solutions and facilities that includes grower finance, trade finance and provide access to the forthcoming Transformation Fund when traditional finance is not commercially viable.
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Grower Reverse Factoring
Dynamic Discounting
Structured Finance
CapEx Finance
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Traditional Invoice Financing
Reverse Factoring
Dynamic Discounting
Trade finance is available to qualified spinners, traders, fabric mills and select Assembly/CMT.
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Philanthropy (direct)
Programme Related Investments (PRIs)
Data License Commissions*
Approx. 5% of all data license fees are contributed to the Transformation Fund, which supports our Partners.
Get Direct-to-Grower™ Certified.
Further demonstrate your commitment to excellence by becoming Direct-to-Grower™ Certified* communicating to vendors, clients, consumers and the world that you are truly transparent, trustworthy and committed to transforming trade for good.
Trade Smarter. Grow Faster. Accelerate Impact.
*Direct-to-Grower Certification is a trade, transparency and process and data collection standard. It is not a product, composition, social compliance or sustainability standard. Certification requires meeting minimum volume requirements in Sourcery and/or purchasing fibre, yarn, fabric and finished goods with corresponding Bluechip data sets.