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A comprehensive capability suite to enhance your supply chain ecosystem

KPMG Origins has a comprehensive capability suite that underpins and enables all our solutions, powered by a robust technology platform.

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Origins Capabilities

Capabilities

Capabilities generate value for ecosystem participants by applying targeted feature sets to a vast array of supply chain scenarios and challenges.

Technology

Technology powers capabilities with leading technology components and infrastructure designed to handle complex ecosystems.

Services

Services enhance and optimise user and participant experience to ensure ecosystem success.

Governance

Governance of a trusted and independent platform instils confidence in digital ecosystems.

Capabilities

Our platform capabilities can be recombined and reconfigured to provide a tailored solution for our clients’ specific use cases. 

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Product tracing

Enabling traceability of supply chain assets to streamline interactions between organisations and maximise value across your supply chain through trusted data sharing. 

  • Identifiable and bulk traceability
  • Mass balance calculations
  • GS1 compliant traceability event model
  • Data permissions and controls
  • Integrated tracking hardware data
Movement reporting

Movement reporting 

Report logistics movements of materials between locations with configurable and prescriptive data capture at each stage of multi-participant supply chains. 

  • Configurable data fields, forms, logic and roles
  • Supports pre-authorisation of movements
  • Mobile web-app for on-the-go data viewing and capture
  • Scalable model to support mass data capture across entire industries
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Evidence tracking 

Digitise, collect and collate all the required evidences (documents, certificates, licences, assurances, etc.) across supply chain participants, locations, products and orders.  

  • Configure required supply chain evidences
  • Collect evidences from various participants and systems
  • Aggregate and analyse supply chain evidences
  • Share evidences with value chain participants
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Order compliance 

Associate products with purchase and sale orders to allow for aggregate data capture and due diligence reporting against orders. Include specific support for export/import orders and associated logistics.  

  • Associate products to purchase/sale orders
  • Configure and aggregate evidences against an order
  • Generate due diligence evidence statements
  • Share with value chain participants
Built environment

Built environment asset indicators

Establish a point of differentiation between trustworthy and non-trustworthy built environment assets, including upfront carbon emissions, and bring transparency to supply chain processes. 

  • Calculate the risk profile of built assets
  • Calculate accurate upfront carbon
  • Analyse breakdown of risk assessments
  • Report trustworthy and carbon indicators to stakeholders 
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Ecosystem registries 

Ecosystem registries are essential infrastructure for multi-tenanted digital ecosystems as they provide commonality of essential reference data. Registry data can be permissioned   

  • Participants Registry – who operates in a supply chain?
  • Materials Registry – what is a product?
  • Locations Registry – where is a product?
  • Users Registry – access and auditable history 

Technology

Leading technology components and infrastructure support and enhance our platform capabilities to handle complex ecosystems. 

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Data capture

Across value chain ecosystems there is a spectrum of technical maturity of participants and data transfer volumes and frequency. To cater for these variables, our data capture capabilities support a range of methods including: 

  • Forms on desktop & mobile (low maturity / low volumes)
  • CSV (mid maturity / mid volumes)
  • APIs (sophisticated / high volume) 

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Data integrations

Our solutions offer a full suite of documented OpenAPI integrations to capture, extract and update permissioned data. The connection of external systems to KPMG Origins increases data integrity and reduces the human input required to achieve a successful ecosystem. 

  • Data capture APIs
  • Data management APIs
  • Data extraction APIs 

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Data & AI insights 

Our advanced analytical dashboards are readily configurable, filterable and searchable to allow for a broad range of analysis to be undertaken without technical assistance. The data available in the dashboards is based on the permission models and can be aggregated and disaggregated depending on the user’s requirements. 

  • Configurable, filterable and searchable
  • Aggregated and disaggregated views
  • Management reporting visualisations 

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Cloud infrastructure

KPMG Origins is a cloud-native application that is hosted in Microsoft Azure Cloud (ISO 27001, ISO 27018, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC3, FedRAMP, HITRUST, MTCS, IRAP, and ENS SOC 2 certified). 

The system is using Azure PaaS services for its workloads. Therefore, KPMG Origins and Microsoft Azure share information security responsibilities. Microsoft provides the security of the underlying Azure platform.

KPMG Origins provides security and complies with strict KPMG International and Australian information security and data protection standards.

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Data on Blockchain

For the purposes of reconciliation, auditing and to guarantee immutability, KPMG Origins stores key data points within an immutable ledger. 

This immutable ledger is powered by the Synfini platform - a Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) managed by Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). 

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Access controls

KPMG Origins has all the required capabilities to provide industry and government agencies access to the solution in a secure manner with self-service capabilities to manage users, their details and roles.  

  • Online registration
  • Authentication (including MFA & SSO)
  • Account and team management
  • Role based permissions

KPMG Origins leverages Azure Active Directory B2C for Identity Lifecycle Management and Access Management.

Services

KPMG Origins services enhance and optimise user and participant experience to ensure ecosystem success. 

Onboarding

Onboarding is essential to ensure that users across an entire ecosystem are established and appropriately trained to use KPMG Origins. Effective onboarding maximises the value that is delivered on day one of KPMG Origins adoption, reduces inefficiencies and minimised the time investment for users to understand the capabilities.   

  • Ecosystem participant onboarding
  • User onboarding
  • Optimised user training sessions and materials

User support

There are a range of methods for users to access support services and help materials. Our approach starts with self-help as the fastest, and cheapest, method of overcoming issues, with the ability for users to escalate the issue through to our dedicated support team. 

  • Online help centre
  • In-app help widget
  • In-app support chat
  • Support services 

Implementation & Transition-in

Transition-in ensures that on day one of going live with KPMG Origins, there is a comprehensive data set to enable immediate use and value generation for an ecosystem. Our approach aims to reduce admin burden on participants as they don’t have to re-enter data from legacy systems. 

  • Transition-in plan creation
  • Data cleaning, validation, transformation and seeding
  • Transition-in acceptance support
  • Go-live on a controlled and transparent timeline 

Technical support

Beyond level 1 user support, KPMG Origins offers comprehensive level 2 and 3 technical support. Our technical support also ensures that integrated systems and their technical teams can access experienced developers to talk through best integration approaches, troubleshooting and implementation.  

  • Level 2 and 3 technical support
  • Technical Integration support
  • Technical support to establish SSO

Integration services 

Development capacity can often be a constraint to timely integration of a new platform like KPMG Origins into an ecosystem. KPMG Origins offers integration development services to our clients to overcome this barrier and establish automated data transfers between client systems and KPMG Origins.   

  • Integration development from client systems to KPMG Origins
  • Integration quality assurance (QA) testing
  • Ongoing integration operations and management

Capability enhancement

KPMG Origins is a SaaS solution with a shared and comprehensive capability suite. There are however often new features requested that solve specific problems for a client or ecosystem. These capability enhancements can be requested with escalated priorities by clients as a paid service that delivers their desired outcomes into the platform.    

  • Capability scope design and definition
  • User acceptance and iteration of capability
  • Development, quality assurance and deployment

Explore how you can utilise the KPMG Origins capabilities to enable your ecosystem to thrive