Fashion Revolution+3.2 Processing Facilities Disclosure

3.2 Processing Facilities Disclosure

What information does the company publish about its processing facilities? (e.g. ginning and spinning, knitting, weaving, sub-contractors, dyeing and wet processing, tanneries, embroidering, printing, fabric finishing, dye-houses, laundries, etc.)

Wikirate ID: 5821898

Designer: Fashion Revolution

Metric Type: Researched

About the data

Disclosing a list of suppliers beyond the first tier shows that a brand is working to map deeper levels of their supply chain and takes some responsibility for its direct and indirect sourcing relationships. 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. This is especially important beyond the first tier where brands may not be able to monitor their suppliers as easily.

Methodology

In this question you are being asked to identify what information the company publishes about its processing facilities. Start by looking for a list of processing facilities (e.g. ginning and spinning, knitting, weaving, sub-contractors, dyeing and wet processing, tanneries, embroidering, printing, fabric finishing, dye-houses, laundries, etc.).

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:
- Processing factories/facilities
- Tier 2
- Wet processing

Things to watch out for:
- 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
- We are looking for a map or list that represents a significant proportion of their suppliers. Disclosing one or two suppliers is not sufficient unless it specifies that these suppliers supply a significant chunk of the company's overall product volume.
- Worker-management committees are not sufficient. Committees must be independent, otherwise workers power is potentially quite limited.
- Online maps and PDF documents do not count as not machine readable. Looking specifically for Excel or csv documents.

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

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)

Discloses which tier one facility (or facilities) this processing facility works with

List is publicly available as a csv or Excel spreadsheet

Discloses what percentage of processing facilities is published

Discloses 95% or higher of processing facilities are included in the list/map

Publishes that this list or map of processing facilities 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)

Nothing

Research Policy

Designer Assessed