Sustainability Reporting

Helping Companies and their Suppliers to be EUDR compliant in a digitally connected and efficient way.

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Inspiration

Sustainability reporting is the need of the hour for organizations to comply with EU regulations towards environment. One of its important aspects is EUDR (EU Deforestation Regulation). Currently, there is no standardized platform from where companies can gain data on sustainability report of their suppliers, and many times it happens that they have to ask for same information repeatedly from their suppliers. Therefore, our inspiration is to develop such a one-stop solution and standardized platform.

What it does

Our concept basically does the following:

  1. Suppliers can enter all of their data at once in the platform, including uploading certificates that can prefill the form which asks for details that EUDR asks for.
  2. Companies will have the option to generate a consolidated report for their suppliers, and can use them accordingly to meet the sustainability demands.
  3. There will be an LLM-based FAQs chatbot that answers all of the queries related to EUDR, and hence prevents unnecessary Google searches or confusions on topics that the supplier might not be aware of.

How we built it

Research and design- Brainstorming on EUDR and the important fields that are asked under it. The design is very simple and intuitive and goes by the theme of Connecting the Unconnected.

Frontend- Created in React JS

Backend- Created in Django and mySQL hosted on AWS

LLM- Created on dynamic API calling in GPT 3.5 Turbo Model

Challenges we ran into

  1. User Interface- This involved quite a significant amount of thinking on placing of different elements at front end, so that the user does not get overwhelmed and instead finds it easy to use instead of getting lost in vast sea of information.
  2. LLM Training- Computational and time resources were limiting factor in training our chatbot, and it required manual annotations of the text documents to feed it necessary information during training, and extensive prompt fine tuning to ensure correctness in information displayed.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  1. Our chatbot is able to answer all queries properly and correctly, without overwhelming the users.
  2. Report generation feature provides a single page answer to the company on all sustainability metrics and will hence save time and resources on getting the data manually.
  3. Auto fill feature of form saves some time for the suppliers and they do not have to repeat the form filling process regularly.

What we learned

  1. Firstly, about EUDR and how seriously it is being considered in supply chain management.
  2. Adapting the power of LLMs to make our website a single stop for answering all concerns related to EUDR.
  3. Automation in form of auto filling forms via certificate uploads from suppliers, and report generation to track metrics in a single go.
  4. Team collaboration for integration in frontend, backend and LLM to complete the solution.

What's next for Sustainability Reporting

  1. Continuous improvement and update in LLM training to further accommodate new changes or revisions in EUDR in future.
  2. Expansion of features like auto warning emails to suppliers that do not meet the norms, compatibility on mobiles via apps, and expansion of report visualizations.
  3. Collaboration with industry.
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