PemPem Palm Fruit Trading & Traceability

PemPem Inc. is a company with offices in Montreal (Canada) and Pekanbaru and Jakarta (Indonesia) that builds a traceable commodity trading platform for smallholder supply chains. It targets deforestation risk and opaque cash-based trading in Indonesian palm oil.

Sellers and buyers initiate and settle trades digitally through a mobile app and a buyer portal, replacing pen-and-paper and cash processes; each digital trade automatically creates transaction-level traceability from farm to mill. Traceability currently reaches village level, with plot-level tracing in development. The focus is fresh palm fruit in Sumatra, while rubber, coconut, sugar and cacao are under evaluation.

• Mobile trading: Suppliers trade through an Android app.
• Buyer portal: Mills and buyers log in to manage purchases.
• Digital settlement: Trades are paid and settled on the platform.
• Automatic traceability: Each trade records farm-to-factory data.
• Live prices: Palm fruit prices shown daily from 8 AM to 11:59 PM WIB.
• Commodity expansion: Evaluating rubber, coconut, sugar and cacao.

• A rubber or coffee processor in Vietnam piloting digital purchase and payment with smallholder suppliers. 2) A commodity trader generating traceability records for EUDR due diligence. 3) A mill tracing fresh fruit purchases back to village level.

• Mills buying through PemPem can back traceability claims with transaction data. 2) Digital payments give smallholders transparent settlement. 3) Live palm fruit prices are published daily. 4) Traceability data is generated as a by-product of trading, without extra data entry.

Palm oil buyers face the EUDR and corporate no-deforestation commitments that require traceability to smallholders, who are often reached only through intermediaries. Transaction-based traceability models are relevant to other smallholder commodities in Southeast Asia, including Vietnamese coffee, rubber and cacao.

Offices in Montreal (Canada), Pekanbaru and Jakarta (Indonesia). Partners and awards listed include PepsiCo, Unilever, Mulago Foundation, the World Economic Forum Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge, Creative Destruction Lab and Google for Startups. Mulago reports total investment of USD 600,000.