Walter Matter, a century-old family-owned, independent merchant specialized in coffee and cocoa trading needed a reliable solution to ensure their supply chain adhered to EUDR requirements.
EUDR compliance and deforestation monitoring
Coffee and Cocoa
Before EUDR, sustainability efforts in commodity trading often focused on certified supply chains and targeted programs. The regulation expanded this scope significantly—requiring plot-level verification and evidence across nearly all sourcing flows.
This shift introduced a new level of complexity. Coffee and cocoa supply chains rely on thousands of smallholder farms, with data that is often fragmented, inconsistent, and difficult to standardize.
For Walter Matter, a lean team managing a global network of suppliers, the challenge was clear: to process real-world data at scale—standardizing fragmented inputs, ensuring data quality, and generating reliable, verifiable compliance evidence, all without increasing operational complexity.
Walter Matter partnered with Picterra to configure a system tailored to their operational needs and real-world constraints—enabling scalable, reliable traceability without added complexity.
The system allows them to:
Sustainability Manager at Walter Matter SA
Sustainability Manager at Walter Matter SA
across 26 countries
suppliers
shipments verified
