Nestlé

Nestlé, one of the world's largest food producers with over 2,000 products sold in 186 countries, operates 376 factories across 81 countries and depends on a vast, fragmented network of agricultural suppliers. For its baby food supply chain, the company needed every contracted farmer to comply with its Responsible Sourcing Standard — a non-negotiable framework governing soil health, water usage, agrochemical application, fertilizer use, and pest management. Critically, the standard prohibits prophylactic use of agrochemicals, requiring usage to be tied to active monitoring or forecasting data. Without a digital system in place, Nestlé had no real-time visibility into how produce was grown, could not consistently enforce compliance across a dispersed supplier base, and lacked the analytics needed to identify which agronomic practices correlated with the highest quality yields.

Nestlé deployed AGRIVI's Food Traceability platform across its agricultural supply chain for baby food, giving contracted farmers a single digital tool to log agronomic activities, monitor field conditions in real time, and demonstrate compliance with Nestlé's Responsible Sourcing Standards. The platform integrates IoT-driven weather and microclimate monitoring alongside satellite imagery, enabling precision field management and targeted interventions rather than blanket chemical applications. Pest risk detection algorithms generate automated alarms when threshold conditions are met, directly supporting Nestlé's monitoring-based application requirements. Built-in databases of legally registered crop inputs and fertilizers help farmers select compliant products and maintain audit-ready field records. Unified data entry simplified reporting for both regulatory certifications and Nestlé's own internal traceability requirements, replacing fragmented manual processes with a single, structured data stream flowing back to Nestlé's supply chain team.

Following deployment, Nestlé achieved 100% transparency across its agricultural supply chain — complete, real-time visibility into how every parcel of produce used in its factories was grown. Key outcomes include:

• Full production traceability of raw materials from field to factory, covering land use, soil health, and sustainability KPIs
• Farmer compliance with Nestlé's Responsible Sourcing Standards enforced through platform-level guardrails rather than manual audits
• Faster progress toward Nestlé's corporate sustainability goals, as noted by Sebastian Bloch, Sustainable Agriculture Development at Nestlé: "AGRIVI platform enables us to speed up the pace and achieve our sustainability goals faster"
• Improved produce quality and consistency entering the supply chain, underpinned by data-driven agronomic decision-making at the farm level

• Compliance standards alone are insufficient at scale — food manufacturers must equip suppliers with the tools to meet those standards, not just mandate them.
• Combining IoT sensor data, satellite imagery, and pest risk modeling enables usage-based agrochemical application, which is increasingly required by both regulators and responsible sourcing frameworks.
• A single unified platform for field records reduces supplier reporting burden and increases data quality, making traceability practically enforceable rather than aspirational.
• Raw-material-level transparency is becoming a baseline requirement for food safety, brand trust, and regulatory compliance in large-scale food manufacturing.
• Shared values between food companies and AgTech vendors — here, sustainable production — improve adoption and long-term platform effectiveness.