Since year now many of international well-known brands are striving to developed more comprehensive, reliable, self-driven sustainable supply chain which include raw material producer such as fiber, yarn, component and ultimate Garment producer, many of them have success too however there is a gap in between what have been notice during my last couple of year working directly involve in supply chain management.
Most are manufacturing unit are still working by force-driven by Brand as they impose lot of strict compliance requirement very few manufacturing unit have a clear goals for sustainability which is actually in place majority even doesn't have such written policy or plan.
Well all above there is also a fact where Brands need to understand producer concern too,
- Major factories have business relation with European or US Brands
- Both Region does have a minimum requirement of manufacturing units in terms of compliance, Apart from difference between US & European requirement it has been noticed that Brand from same region have different requirement of those compliance standards,
- Factories are investing a huge amount of resource to fulfill those requirements for same region of buyer which is ultimate resulting cost difference to maintain those different requirement.
Suggestion for Brand to develop such tool like Higg Index and accept those audit result if it is fulfilling their legal or regional requirement it will not only save the cost but it would be optimum utilization of resource
Suggestion for Supplier to develop more clear sustainable strategies and compliance standard with full implementation plan with clear monitoring & evaluation so they should work on adhoc basis prior to audit
To build more sustainable supply chain and sustainable approach supplier should work to develop own sustainable strategies which should align with their Brands needs/ commitment
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