What the Supplier Portal is
The Supplier Portal is what the operator’s manufacturers log into. Mobile-first by design: the highest-volume action is uploading QC photos from a factory floor, from a phone, often over a marginal data connection. Big touch targets (hands wearing gloves). Photo uploads queue and retry automatically when connectivity comes back. The UI never blocks on a network call. Free seats up to tier limits.
What it replaces
What suppliers do: receive POs and accept or counter, report production milestones lot by lot, upload QC photos and inspection reports, share capacity for upcoming quarters, post production-line status, manage compliance certificates (ISO, CE, FDA, GMP), get paid against milestone proof rather than 60-day NET terms. What it replaces: WhatsApp threads with factory contacts that nobody at the operator can fully reconstruct, Excel trackers that get out of sync the moment anyone makes a change, email chains with attachments forwarded three times, phone calls at odd hours for production status, marked-up scanned PDF POs, separate systems for quality, production, compliance, and invoicing that don’t talk to each other.
Multi-operator network effect
Suppliers are multi-operator on the EDMA network. A factory in Penang serving three EDMA operators logs in once and sees a unified inbox of POs, production schedules, and capacity asks across all three. Each operator only sees their own relationship with that supplier. The supplier sees all of them in one place. This is the network effect the operator-hub model unlocks: every supplier connection is also a potential channel for further operator adoption.
What suppliers do in the portal
Mobile-first QC
Upload inspection photos from the factory floor, with automatic retry on bad connectivity. Big touch targets for gloved hands. The single highest-volume action in the portal is designed for the phone first, desktop second.
Production lot tracking
Every lot has a structured record: sample size, AQL level, pass/fail outcome, photos, inspector identity and signature. The data is exactly what Proof-of-Verification needs to mint a milestone token.
Multi-operator inbox
One login serves multiple EDMA operators. The factory sees a unified view of POs, schedules, and capacity asks across every operator they work with.
Capacity planning
Share booked and available capacity per production line per quarter. Operators see real-time capacity signals. Suppliers stop fielding the same capacity-check phone call from five different operators every month.
Compliance vault
ISO, CE, FDA, GMP, organic, fair-trade, sustainability certificates, with expiry tracking and automated renewal nudges. No more scrambling to find a five-year-old COA at audit time.
Milestone payments
Get paid against verified production milestones, not 60-day NET terms. When the L2 launches, payments settle via EDSD on milestone proof; at v1, the platform tracks the milestone and the operator releases payment off-chain.
Where it stands today
The Supplier Portal ships at TradeOS public launch (August 1, 2026), at the end of Stage 1 of the EDMA roadmap. Already shipped on the platform: supplier identity model (network-wide, multi-operator), mobile-first QC photo uploads with retry queuing, production lot tracking with AQL records, capacity reporting, compliance certificate vault. Following at public launch and Q4 2026: EDSD-mediated milestone payments (gated on L2 mainnet, Oct 2026), automated capacity demand-signal feedback to suppliers, deep-tier supplier finance through the Financier Marketplace. Pricing at edma.trade. Full roadmap at /roadmap/.
