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The Sustainability Consortium (TSC)
https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) is a global organization transforming the consumer goods industry to deliver more sustainable consumer products. We work to enable a world where people can lead fulfilled lives in a way that decouples their impacts on people and the planet.
https://sustainabilityconsortium.org/
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) is a global organization transforming the consumer goods industry to deliver more sustainable consumer products. We work to enable a world where people can lead fulfilled lives in a way that decouples their impacts on people and the planet.
Investors push Zara to publish full supply chain
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/investors-push-zara-owner-inditex-publish-full-supply-chain-2024-03-11
Inditex is an outlier among big clothing retailers in not publishing which factories it sources from. Regulators and investors want greater transparency and better disclosure from companies. Clothing retailers, in particular, are under pressure to prove that there is no forced labour in their supply chains, and that garment workers are paid decent wages.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/investors-push-zara-owner-inditex-publish-full-supply-chain-2024-03-11
Inditex is an outlier among big clothing retailers in not publishing which factories it sources from. Regulators and investors want greater transparency and better disclosure from companies. Clothing retailers, in particular, are under pressure to prove that there is no forced labour in their supply chains, and that garment workers are paid decent wages.
Building a Transparent Supply Chain, with Blockchain
https://hbr.org/2020/05/building-a-transparent-supply-chain
Led by companies such as Walmart and Procter & Gamble, considerable advancement in supply chain information sharing has taken place since the 1990s, thanks to the use of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. However, visibility remains a challenge in large supply chains involving complex transactions. To illustrate the limitations of the current world of financial-ledger entries and ERP systems, along with the potential benefits of a world of blockchain, let us describe a hypothetical scenario: a simple transaction involving a retailer that sources a product from a supplier, and a bank that provides the working capital the supplier needs to fill the order. The transaction involves information flows, inventory flows, and financial flows. Note that a given flow does not result in financial-ledger entries at all three parties involved. And state-of-the-art ERP systems, manual audits, and inspections can’t reliably connect the three flows, which makes it hard to eliminate execution errors, improve decision-making, and resolve supply chain conflicts.
https://hbr.org/2020/05/building-a-transparent-supply-chain
Led by companies such as Walmart and Procter & Gamble, considerable advancement in supply chain information sharing has taken place since the 1990s, thanks to the use of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. However, visibility remains a challenge in large supply chains involving complex transactions. To illustrate the limitations of the current world of financial-ledger entries and ERP systems, along with the potential benefits of a world of blockchain, let us describe a hypothetical scenario: a simple transaction involving a retailer that sources a product from a supplier, and a bank that provides the working capital the supplier needs to fill the order. The transaction involves information flows, inventory flows, and financial flows. Note that a given flow does not result in financial-ledger entries at all three parties involved. And state-of-the-art ERP systems, manual audits, and inspections can’t reliably connect the three flows, which makes it hard to eliminate execution errors, improve decision-making, and resolve supply chain conflicts.
Article; How Rana Plaza catalyzed a transparency movement and the lessons learned on opening data at
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-rana-plaza-catalyzed-transparency-movement-lessons-grillon/
April 24, 2023 marked the 10 year anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, an industrial tragedy of unprecedented scale in which over 1,110 people died and more than 2,500 were left injured. In the immediate aftermath, activists on the ground dug through rubble trying to find clothing with tags to identify who might be held accountable. The collapse left families forever changed; husbands, wives, sisters and brothers lost; children left without mothers. While the conditions which led to the accident and the longer term worker advocacy efforts which followed have, rightly, been widely covered elsewhere, the accident led to a shift in the apparel sector. It catapulted issues of abuse and neglect in apparel supply chains into the global public consciousness, giving campaigners who had been active in this sector for many years previously a more visible platform for their activism. What did this look like in practice?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-rana-plaza-catalyzed-transparency-movement-lessons-grillon/
April 24, 2023 marked the 10 year anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, an industrial tragedy of unprecedented scale in which over 1,110 people died and more than 2,500 were left injured. In the immediate aftermath, activists on the ground dug through rubble trying to find clothing with tags to identify who might be held accountable. The collapse left families forever changed; husbands, wives, sisters and brothers lost; children left without mothers. While the conditions which led to the accident and the longer term worker advocacy efforts which followed have, rightly, been widely covered elsewhere, the accident led to a shift in the apparel sector. It catapulted issues of abuse and neglect in apparel supply chains into the global public consciousness, giving campaigners who had been active in this sector for many years previously a more visible platform for their activism. What did this look like in practice?
Report, Data Ports in action
https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/202004-CGF-E2E-DataPorts-in-Action-Paper.pdf
Managing and sharing product information across the entire value chain is still a fundamental challenge for the consumer goods and retail industry. The Board of The Consumer Good Fo- rum (CGF) acknowledges the need to move urgently and at scale beyond current industry and organisational paradigms to drive a step-change forward via the Product Data Coalition of Action. Most of the current initiatives have focused on managing and sharing product master data across the industry:
(1) verifying GTINs globally
(2) defining and maintaining a core set of product attributes and
(3) ensuring the best possible data quality via a consistent approach based on Data Quality Business Rules. In addition, there is a voluntary innovation track which has focused on new technologies to leapfrog data exchange (4) via DataPorts.
One of the key premises is that new technologies such as Arti- ficial Intelligence (AI) promise a future for data transformation, validation and exchange that is likely to be more responsive and accurate than current approaches. For that reason, we are currently exploring “DataPorts” as a new, easy and cost-efficient way to exchange data in a decentralised, federated manner across the whole value chain (including consumers), lever- aging technology innovations in cloud/APIs, AI and Machine Learning (ML). This new way of peer-to-peer data exchange allows for more automation and flexible dialogues between systems of trading partners.
https://www.theconsumergoodsforum.com/wp-content/uploads/202004-CGF-E2E-DataPorts-in-Action-Paper.pdf
Managing and sharing product information across the entire value chain is still a fundamental challenge for the consumer goods and retail industry. The Board of The Consumer Good Fo- rum (CGF) acknowledges the need to move urgently and at scale beyond current industry and organisational paradigms to drive a step-change forward via the Product Data Coalition of Action. Most of the current initiatives have focused on managing and sharing product master data across the industry:
(1) verifying GTINs globally
(2) defining and maintaining a core set of product attributes and
(3) ensuring the best possible data quality via a consistent approach based on Data Quality Business Rules. In addition, there is a voluntary innovation track which has focused on new technologies to leapfrog data exchange (4) via DataPorts.
One of the key premises is that new technologies such as Arti- ficial Intelligence (AI) promise a future for data transformation, validation and exchange that is likely to be more responsive and accurate than current approaches. For that reason, we are currently exploring “DataPorts” as a new, easy and cost-efficient way to exchange data in a decentralised, federated manner across the whole value chain (including consumers), lever- aging technology innovations in cloud/APIs, AI and Machine Learning (ML). This new way of peer-to-peer data exchange allows for more automation and flexible dialogues between systems of trading partners.
Paper: Consumer Trust in Social Responsibility Communications: The Role of Supply Chain Visibility
https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=93602407200008800112210310508706701100504501002909101709901009212709700612601000700704504804005402604600008008701506702912101603001709208301610712606508101010306409102107302412709300409110910912307801309
Consumers are becoming more knowledgeable about companies’ social responsibility (SR) practices. As a result, they are increasingly skeptical when companies do not provide clear information about these practices. One way to overcome this skepticism is to strengthen consumer trust through improved supply chain trans- parency. To create transparency requires a company to both gain visibility into its supply chain and disclose information to consumers. However, the current SR literature has only focused on the effect of disclosure on consumer trust, while the effect of visibility on trust in SR communications is not well understood.
https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=93602407200008800112210310508706701100504501002909101709901009212709700612601000700704504804005402604600008008701506702912101603001709208301610712606508101010306409102107302412709300409110910912307801309
Consumers are becoming more knowledgeable about companies’ social responsibility (SR) practices. As a result, they are increasingly skeptical when companies do not provide clear information about these practices. One way to overcome this skepticism is to strengthen consumer trust through improved supply chain trans- parency. To create transparency requires a company to both gain visibility into its supply chain and disclose information to consumers. However, the current SR literature has only focused on the effect of disclosure on consumer trust, while the effect of visibility on trust in SR communications is not well understood.
Supply Chain Transparency Explained
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/supply-chain-transparency-explained
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/supply-chain-transparency-explained
According to Alexis Bateman, research scientist and director of MIT Sustainable Supply Chains at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, there are two elements to supply chain transparency:
Visibility: Accurately identifying and collecting data from all links in your supply chain.
Disclosure: Communicating that information, both internally and externally, at the level of detail required or desired.
What kind of data and in how much detail? That can depend on the business you’re in. And how much disclosure? That can depend on your corporate culture and corporate values. Beyond what’s strictly required by regulation, then, supply chain transparency means different things to different companies.
“It’s unrealistic to expect that supply chain players can collect all information all the time,” said Bateman. One grocery store chain that specializes in organic and sustainable food may go to lengths to identify, and disclose, great detail in its supply chain. Another chain, one that focuses on the lowest prices, may not want or need as much detail or disclosure. Then again, if bad news strikes — like E. coli being found in lettuce — both chains had better be able to pinpoint their supply sources well enough to be able to pull the contaminated produce.
Deep Sea Mining Watch
https://deepseaminingwatch.msi.ucsb.edu
The mission of this project is to provide scientifically rigorous data that will allow people around the world to watch over seabed mining and empower them to play a role in determining if and how it begins.
https://deepseaminingwatch.msi.ucsb.edu
The mission of this project is to provide scientifically rigorous data that will allow people around the world to watch over seabed mining and empower them to play a role in determining if and how it begins.
Mine Spider, Company Website
https://www.minespider.com/
Minespider is a blockchain-based traceability platform empowering companies to create, capture, and communicate sustainability efforts along their supply chains.
https://www.minespider.com/
Minespider is a blockchain-based traceability platform empowering companies to create, capture, and communicate sustainability efforts along their supply chains.
Open Supply Hub
https://www.opensupplyhub.org/
Open Supply Hub will make global supply chain data accessible to all. Brought to you by the team behind the Open Apparel Registry
https://www.opensupplyhub.org/
Open Supply Hub will make global supply chain data accessible to all. Brought to you by the team behind the Open Apparel Registry
Clean Clothes Campaign; Unclear supply chains
https://cleanclothes.org/unclear-supply-chains
Transparency across supply chains is vital to ensuring that workers rights are respected. Although transparency in general has increased after years of concerted effort from the CCC network, the kind of information brands release about the manufacturing of their products is still sorely lacking.
https://cleanclothes.org/unclear-supply-chains
Transparency across supply chains is vital to ensuring that workers rights are respected. Although transparency in general has increased after years of concerted effort from the CCC network, the kind of information brands release about the manufacturing of their products is still sorely lacking.
Open Apparel Registry (OAR)
https://openapparel.org/
The Open Apparel Registry (OAR) is a free, open data tool mapping garment facilities worldwide and allocating a unique ID to each.
https://openapparel.org/
The Open Apparel Registry (OAR) is a free, open data tool mapping garment facilities worldwide and allocating a unique ID to each.
Esprit Supply Chain Transparancy
https://www.esprit.com/en/company/sustainability/produce-responsibly/transparency
Ensuring that our products are made in a clean and responsible way requires that we know a lot about our supply chain partners. Over recent years we have drastically reduced the number of supply chain partners we work with so that we can go beyond building business relationships and instead focus on creating a collaborative community. Working with fewer suppliers enables us to really know them, understand their needs and challenges, and support them to achieve our standards. Includes supplier list in excel.
https://www.esprit.com/en/company/sustainability/produce-responsibly/transparency
Ensuring that our products are made in a clean and responsible way requires that we know a lot about our supply chain partners. Over recent years we have drastically reduced the number of supply chain partners we work with so that we can go beyond building business relationships and instead focus on creating a collaborative community. Working with fewer suppliers enables us to really know them, understand their needs and challenges, and support them to achieve our standards. Includes supplier list in excel.
Transparancy Pledge
https://transparencypledge.org/
Setting the minimum standard for supply chain disclosure in the Garment and Footwear industry
https://transparencypledge.org/
Setting the minimum standard for supply chain disclosure in the Garment and Footwear industry
H&M Supply Chain Transparancy Page
https://hmgroup.com/sustainability/leading-the-change/transparency/supply-chain/
Supplu chain structure, downloadable metrics, supplier list,
https://hmgroup.com/sustainability/leading-the-change/transparency/supply-chain/
Supplu chain structure, downloadable metrics, supplier list,
Nike Manufacturing Map
https://manufacturingmap.nikeinc.com
Virtually all NIKE, Inc. materials and finished products are sourced from, or manufactured by, independent suppliers that also make or provide products for other global companies. That means that NIKE does not own, operate or employ workers at these locations. NIKE also has license agreements that permit unaffiliated parties to manufacture and sell products using NIKE-owned trademarks. The suppliers featured on this map are those used by NIKE, Inc., licensees or agents to manufacture finished goods, as well as materials suppliers.
https://manufacturingmap.nikeinc.com
Virtually all NIKE, Inc. materials and finished products are sourced from, or manufactured by, independent suppliers that also make or provide products for other global companies. That means that NIKE does not own, operate or employ workers at these locations. NIKE also has license agreements that permit unaffiliated parties to manufacture and sell products using NIKE-owned trademarks. The suppliers featured on this map are those used by NIKE, Inc., licensees or agents to manufacture finished goods, as well as materials suppliers.