Purchasing Practices

Better Buying Purchasing Index Report 2023

Better Work Interactive E-Learning Course to Support Companies to Address Purchasing Practices

Better Work's interactive and action oriented e-learning is designed to help companies get started on addressing purchasing practices.

Garment Sector Wage Digitization—A Practical Guide for Global Brands and Buyers

This guide offers global brands and buyers practical advice and covers four stages for ensuring sustainable wage digitization in global supply chains, that benefits both business and workers, especially women.

Better Buying 2021 Purchasing Practices Index Report

Better Buying 2021 Purchasing Practices Index Report

Early analysis by Better Buying Institute indicates stronger pandemic resilience among subscriber garment brands

Garment brands and retailers who were already engaged with Better Buying when Covid-19 struck continued to improve some areas of their purchasing practices and treatment of suppliers throughout the pandemic, according to early analysis of this year’s supplier ratings.

2020 Better BuyingTM Purchasing Practices Index Report

Introduces company-level improvements in purchasing practices for 10 companies across two ratings cycles. These findings demonstrate how supplier feedback on buyer purchasing practices enables companies to develop and track the effectiveness of their strategies for improvement....

An Apparel Supplier's Guide - Key Sustainability Legislation in the EU, US and UK

The Apparel Supplier's Guide is intended to enable suppliers in the apparel value chain - and others who are seeking to learn more about upcoming legislation - to better understand how impending sustainability-related legislation in the Global North will impact them.

Executive Summary - An Apparel Supplier's Guide

Factsheet 12 - EU Taxonomy

Factsheet 11 - EU Textile Regulation

Factsheet 10 - EU Product Environment Footprint Guide

Factsheet 9 - UK Plastic Packaging Tax

Purchasing practices and working conditions in global supply chains: Global Survey results

OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector, Side Session: Commercial compliance - accelerating change, measuring progress

In this session we are putting the spotlight on the tools that we have at our disposal now and in the future to make commercial compliance measurable at an industry level. This discussion encompasses therefore the definition of commercial compliance and its components as...

OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector 2023: Contracts and HREDD Legislation

It is widely known that contracts are frequently used tools for carrying out human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD). Frequency of use is not tantamount to effective use, however, and the two should not be confused. The new HREDD laws coming from Europe have raised...

OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector: Responsible Purchasing Practices - how can companies integrate responsible purchasing practices in their businesses?

Brands are increasingly turning their attention to their purchasing practices, however, progress towards responsible purchasing practices (RPP) across the sector is being slowed due to a number of repeatedly reported barriers. Our panel will focus on how brands can revise their...

OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector: Due diligence costs and responsibilities - Collaborative approaches to buyer supplier relationships

Buyer-supplier collaboration on due diligence implementation based on distribution of costs and responsibilities along the supply chain can help support the development of effective due diligence processes and a more equal distribution of the burden of compliance. Within the...

The Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices - Building Resilience in Textile Supply Chains

he Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices (CFRPP) (the framework) provides a common language and alignment on what constitutes responsible purchasing practices. It is the result of a 2-year process of the MSI Working Group on Purchasing Practices (the Working...