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By deploying Marvin's Land Intelligence module, SL Alimentos replaced manual, fragmented supplier verifications with one automated system — unifying satellite monitoring, Geospatial mapping for socio-environmental compliance and risk analysis, and buyer verification.

About SL Alimentos: Scale Built Over Three Decades

Headquartered in Mauá da Serra, Paraná, SL Alimentos is Brazil's leading oat processor and one of the largest whole grain mills in Latin America, processing roughly 150,000 tons of cereal a year. It serves multinational food brands in infant nutrition, breakfast, and healthy snack categories, including as the co-manufacturing partner behind 100% of Quaker's oats in Brazil and the first outsourced baby food line Nestlé has authorized anywhere in the world.

Food safety, ESG, traceability, and regulatory compliance are non-negotiable in this sector. SL Alimentos modernized its supply chain to protect its market position, making sure every batch of grain entered the market backed by verified origin data.

The Challenge: The Manual Compliance Analysis Process Could Not Keep Up With The Scale And Complexity

With suppliers spread across different geographies and each carrying unique risk profiles, land boundaries, and regulatory histories, manual compliance processes became increasingly inefficient and difficult to scale — resulting in four key operational challenges:

• Traceability and market access. Without continuous, verifiable proof of compliance, grain batches faced market rejection — a direct hit to revenue.
• Manual evidence gathering. Identifying socio-environmental non-compliance depended on manual, decentralized verification across multiple government databases, creating a heavy administrative load for procurement teams.
• Siloed category management. Disconnected workflows between raw material intake, supplier qualification, and batch categorization created inventory blind spots, slowing approvals and order fulfillment.
• Reactive risk management. Without a way to flag environmental, legal, or financial non-compliance before delivery, teams could only react to problems after they arrived.

The Solution: Marvin's Land Intelligence

Marvin's Land Intelligence module unifies satellite monitoring, supplier qualification, and procurement decision support into one system.

• Non-compliance detection. Cross-references rural property boundaries (CAR) with satellite monitoring data, environmental embargoes, and records of socio-environmental violations, identifying potential risks before the supplier is contracted.
• Supplier qualification. A standard, automated workflow for supplier approval, blocking, and re-qualification, reducing administrative work while increasing audit rigor.
• Category management. Connects verified origin data directly with raw material categories and warehouse batches, so premium product lines stay linked to verified, compliant farms.
• Embedded compliance. Integrates compliance checks directly into the procurement process, enabling risks to be identified before a supplier is contracted — rather than only during subsequent audits.

The Impact: Compliance Becomes Measurable

With Marvin, compliance stays continuous, rather than verified only at a single point in time.

Key Outcomes

Executive Perspective

"Strengthening socio-environmental control at our scale required a total modernization of our territorial intelligence capabilities. Partnering with Marvin allowed us to integrate automated land intelligence directly into our daily purchasing and category management workflows. We haven't just streamlined our supplier qualification—we’ve elevated the transparency and trust we deliver to our global food clients."

— Luana Held Salinet, Sustainability & Supply Chain Leadership, SL Alimentos

Building a Trustworthy, Data-Driven Supply Chain

Rigorous socio-environmental compliance and fast-moving operations run on the same system here. Compliance is no longer a separate audit step — it's part of how SL Alimentos buys, qualifies, and categorizes grain every day.

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