Solutions / Cut the cost of compliance
Make compliance cost less, not more.
Traceability and compliance keep getting more demanding — and on margins measured in cents per unit, every extra hour of manual work is a cost you feel. SmarTuna is built to move that number the other way: capture your data once, at the source, and let compliance fall out of it — instead of paying for it by hand on every shipment.
The problem
The cost isn't the software. It's the manual work.
When people ask what compliance costs, they picture a license fee. The real cost is quieter and much larger: the same data typed into system after system, staff chasing certificates by email, audit files assembled from scratch, shipments held while paperwork catches up, and a fresh integration project for every new partner.
None of it looks dramatic on its own. All of it recurs on every shipment — and it lands hardest on the operations that can least afford it. Digitalization was supposed to take that work away. Too often it just adds one more screen to enter the same data into.
Compliance stops being a separate job done by hand — and becomes a by-product of data you already hold.
The approach
Capture once. Reuse everywhere.
SmarTuna captures supply-chain data at the first mile and carries it through — on the GS1-EPCIS standard, fully GDST-compatible — so it's entered once and reused at every stage and by every partner downstream.
Where the cost actually goes
Five places compliance quietly drains money.
Here's where the time and money go — and what changes when the data flows from the source.
Entering the same data over and over
Captured once where it originates — the catch, the weights, the vessel details — and reused downstream. No re-keying at every hand-off.
Chasing documents
The platform knows which documents each shipment needs and which party owes them, and requests them through the system. Your team stops being a collection agency.
Assembling audit files by hand
Every document is stored against the batch it belongs to, so a buyer request or an audit is a retrieval, not a week of work.
Rejections, holds and demurrage
Consignments are checked against filing requirements before they ship, so problems get fixed upstream instead of at the port of entry. Clear customs the first time →
A bespoke integration for every partner
Standards-based exchange and a documented API replace one-off connection projects.
Down the chain
The saving compounds down the chain.
Because the data is captured once and shared in a standard form, the work you do doesn't stop at your own gate. Every partner downstream inherits clean, verified data instead of re-entering it themselves — which lowers the total cost of compliance across the chain, not only yours, and takes the heaviest manual burden off the smaller operators who feel it most.
Compliance that used to divide the supply chain into those who can afford the paperwork and those who can't starts to even out.
The shift
From a cost line to infrastructure.
Cost of compliance
Hours of manual work repeated on every shipment, paid for again and again, returning nothing but permission to trade.
Infrastructure you'd want anyway
The same data keeps you audit-ready and shows you where your product is, how your fleet or farms are performing, and what's moving through your chain.
It's the point where compliance turns from a cost into an optimization.
The result
What this means for your business.
Built for the whole ocean
See where compliance is costing you.
Every operation leaks cost in different places. In a demo we'll walk through where the compliance work piles up in yours — and show you, on a real chain, where SmarTuna takes it out.
SmarTuna works across all oceans, all seafood species, and every major fishing and farming method. Developed by Pacifical, the team behind the traceability system used by the world's largest MSC-certified purse-seine tuna fishery.