European Union Deforestation Regulation - Crop Growth Modelling
Visualisation of model's inputs and results
Visualisation of model results and inputs
Visualisation of model alongside real world data gathered from audit
Matching of model with audit data from real world farms
Generation/Production Alerts traced through the supply chain
Tracing suspect production levels through supply chain
In highly regulated, traceable supply chains like those enabled by KPMG Origins, there are few entry points for inappropriate material or conduct. One major risk however occurs during “generation/production” stages —such as the growth and harvest of crop in agriculture or production in manufacturing — where creation or conversion rates are often poorly understood, even by experts, due to specific context and varying conditions. For instance, in an agricultural example, crops from deforested land might be sent to a compliant farm, which then falsely claims them as its own. To combat this, KPMG employs up to 9,000 auditors in Brazil, though monitoring vast, often compliant, remote farms remains a challenge. A growth model, factoring in farm and crop-specific contexts, can help by identifying suspect yields in real time and prioritising audits. These models were trained on public and discernible information (e.g. satellite feeds) data points, against TDM counts from auditors. This project advanced to a real-world proof of concept, integrating KPMG’s auditing expertise to validate the model’s effectiveness in enhancing regulatory oversight and traceability.
Working For:
  • KPMG Origins
  • Undisclosed South American Commodity Companies (Top 4)
  • Undisclosed Australian Packaging Company
Industry:
  • Agriculture
  • Supply/Value Chains
  • Manufacturing
Core Technologies
  • Hybrid model design using DNN and MVR
  • Disparete Data sourcing normalisation incl. temp, light, moisture, soil type, seed type and planting density
  • Visualise with Tableau
Building Up Skills
  • Pitch, Proof of Concept and Prototyping.
  • Integration of high-tech solutions with tried and tested human auditing capabilities.
Key Outcomes
  • Proof of concept success that the use of domain-relevant generation and supply models in a value chain traceability platform would be able to detect abnormalities in the behaviour of the supply chain.
  • Identified abnormal crop generation in Brazil in a small holder farms overproducing for their given size.
  • Using same model framework successfully transferred into domains in manufacturing and resource recovery in domestic Australian usecases in packaging.
  • Extended project to include integration with on-site auditors within domestic Brazillian context to confirm and improve results.
External Links
  • Internal Project