Leading brands pull together on supply chain improvement
23/10/2015
The partners will develop a methodology for social and labour performance assessment in the supply chains, and have said through convergence of assessment tools, costs on duplicated auditing will be significantly reduced, and the money saved will instead be used to improve social welfare for millions of people employed in the sector.
This collaborative effort is being facilitated by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) and signatories also include VFC-Timberland, Levi Strauss & Co, PVH, Columbia and WRAP, SGS and the International Apparel Federation
The initiative is a response to the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and a number of European countries’ call for a standardised global approach to social and labour assessment.
Baptiste Carriere-Pradal, vice-president for Europe for SAC, said: “We want to check less and act more: This initiative will accelerate a race to the top in social impacts within apparel and footwear manufacturing countries by shifting resources away from redundant and misaligned assessments to performance improvement and enhanced transparency.
“Convergence is the key to successfully increase transparency and to improve working conditions in global supply chains.”
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