Fashion Revolution+3.1 Tier One Factory Disclosure

3.1 Tier One Factory Disclosure

What information does the company publish about its factories that is has a direct relationship with? (e.g production units, Cut Make and Trim (CMT) facilities, garment finishing, full package production and packaging and storage)

Wikirate ID: 5821888

Designer: Fashion Revolution

Metric Type: Researched

About the data

Disclosing first tier supplier lists is a crucial step towards transparency for major fashion brands. It can help facilitate the identification and escalation of labour rights and environmental issues by trade unions, NGOs and other stakeholders directly to brands enabling them to take urgent actions to address and remediate issues raised.

Methodology

In this question you are being asked to identify what information the company publishes about its tier one factories. Start by looking for a list of the company's first tier suppliers (direct relationship with buyer e.g. production units, Cut Make Trim (CMT) facilities, garment sewing, garment finishing, full package production and packaging and storage).

Where to look for this information:
- Corporate Social Responsibility report
- Company documents
- Company policies
- Company websites
- Company code of conduct
- Parent company documents (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company policies (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company websites (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company code of conduct (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)

Good keywords for your searches include:
- Tier one
- First tier
- Supplier/Vendor/Factory list
- Factory locations
- Factory map
- Manufacturing
- Cut, Make and Trim/Sew
- Open Apparel Registry (OAR)

Things to watch out for:
- We are looking for a map or list that represents a significant proportion of their suppliers
- If a brand links to OAR and you can find suppliers linked to the brand on the platform, then we will allow points.
- Where brands says their list includes "all" their suppliers, we assume this means 100% and we give them the point
- If brand says list updated every X months accepted
- Online maps and PDF documents do not count as not machine readable. Looking specifically for Excel or csv documents. Publishing the information in csv or excel formats makes this information easy to use for third parties like trade unions and NGOs (for more information, see: https://odsas.org/)
- Worker-management committees are not sufficient. Committees must be independent, otherwise workers power is potentially quite limited.

Topics

Value Type

Multi-Category

Options

Name of Facility

Address

Type of products or services

Approximate number of workers at each site

Sex-disaggregated breakdown of workers at each site

If facility has trade union

If the facility has an independent worker committee

% or number of migrant or contract workers

Certifications the facility has (if any) (2021 only)

Name of Parent Company (for each facility if applicable)

List is publicly available as a csv or Excel spreadsheet

Discloses what percentage of its tier one factories is published

Discloses 95% or higher of tier one factories are included in the list/map

Publishes that this list or map of tier one factories has been updated within the past 6 months

Race-disaggregated breakdown of workers at each site (FTI Brazil only)

Supplier list contributed to the Open Apparel Registry (assessed from 2022)

Discloses aggregate business volume and percentage of suppliers (assessed from 2022)

Weekly take-home wage (assessed from 2023)

Length of time worked with facility (assessed from 2023)

Nothing

Research Policy

Designer Assessed