Supplier Disclosure
About the data
This metric is part of a Clean Clothes Campaign project to investigate wages in apparel supply chains. The project, Filling the Gap: Achieving Living Wages through improved transparency, is funded by the European Commission and comprises research, campaigning, capacity building and advocacy around an innovative Transparency Tool.
The Transparency Tool enables users to see at a glance which fashion brands and retailers have the largest gaps between their public commitments on wages, what workers are actually paid, and what they should be paid to be earning a Living Wage in their regional context.
The aim of the project is to empower workers and workers’ organisations to advocate for their rights and equip consumers with the knowledge/evidence that will enable them to make responsible and sustainable shopping decisions, and to hold brands accountable. The resulting increased transparency and traceability, along with the empowerment of workers, trade unions and CSOs, will lead to concrete improvements in these global supply chains.
The research was split into two parts: a survey of the brands and an on-the-ground survey of factory workers, initially in China, Indonesia, Croatia, India and Sri Lanka. This metric is derived from the brand survey portion of the research.
The Transparency Pledge: The objective of the Transparency Pledge is to help the garment industry reach a common minimum standard for supply chain disclosures by getting companies to publish standardized, meaningful information on all factories in the manufacturing phase of their supply chains.
Methodology
This metric is asking whether the company publicly discloses details about their suppliers in alignment with the Transparency Pledge. Start by searching on the company’s website and within their published documents for a list of suppliers.
Keywords and Search Terms
- Supplier list
- Vendor list
- Supply chain
Answer Input
Always include the page number where you found the answer in the Comments field, as well as excerpts from the source where you found the information.
The five disclosure specifications of the Transparency Pledge are:
- The full name of all authorized production units and processing facilities (Processing factories include printing, embroidery, laundry, and so on)
- The site addresses
- The parent company of the business at the site
- Type of products made (apparel, footwear, home textile, accessories)
- Worker numbers at each site (by category)
If the company publishes a supplier disclosure in alignment with the five disclosure specifications of the Transparency Pledge, enter the answer as 'Yes'.
If the company publishes a supplier disclosure in alignment with some, but not all, of the five disclosure specifications of the Transparency Pledge, enter the answer as 'Partial'.
If the company has not made any such disclosure, enter the answer as 'No'.
Please note: 'Unknown' is not a possible answer for this metric.