Partner

In the Sustainability context, a Partner represents a farm, producer, or processing facility that is subject to sustainability audits, certifications, or reporting obligations. Partners here are not primarily commercial trading counterparts — they are the organizational entities whose environmental, social, and governance data is being tracked and reported.

The Sustainability-specific converter exposes a tailored subset of fields: enough to uniquely identify the partner and determine their current compliance state, but without the commercial and financial attributes that are irrelevant to sustainability reporting. Key data points include the partner's name, their external identifier (for cross-referencing with certification body systems), and their current enquiry/certification workflow state.