TransFair USA
TransFair USA, 2003
Challenge
Speed Fair Trade certification for coffee companies
TransFair USA is a national nonprofit providing the Fair Trade Certification for coffee and other products. The Fair Trade symbol guarantees that farmers are paid a fair price on the global market for their products. Because of its tremendous growth, TransFair was unable to keep up with the filing and auditing requirements of its certification process, a problem that put its continued success in jeopardy.
Solution
Online certification management
TransFair USA needed to replace its manual, paper-based certification process with an updated service.
Carbon Five built a web solution that allows TransFair to automate its Fair Trade licensing process by tracking the flow of coffee from international producer to domestic consumer. Stakeholders' quarterly online filings are matched against each other to provide an audit trail for purchases, sales and license fee payment.
Value
Fair Trade with fewer resources
By automating the tracking of stakeholder filings and payments, Carbon Five's solution significantly reduced TransFair's workload. The new system also features a bulletproof auditing process that enables TransFair to ensure the integrity of client filings. That translates directly into reduced costs and increased revenues.
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“Carbon Five's expertise and professionalism were key in building the right application to meet our organization's very specific needs. As a result, the custom application has immediately increased efficiency levels and allows the organization to now analyze key strategic data points that had been impossible to analyze in the past.”
—Certification Manager, TransFair USA