Building capacity and increasing volumes over time
It is best to take a strategic approach to build your volumes of sustainable cotton over the medium and long term.
Once you have approached the suppliers most likely to help you meet your sustainable sourcing goals, along with those already included in your chosen cotton option database, we recommend you focus either on supplier volume OR product volume. For example, does one of your major suppliers already offer a more sustainable option you could switch to? Or would it make sense to start by focusing on a product line with high cotton usage, such as menswear or childrenswear?
Knowing how your business works, start planning what changing one product line or one supplier would do, and map this against the timeframes you are working to. If appropriate, you may also want to consolidate your buying with other departments to create a more cohesive and efficient sourcing strategy.
Tracking volumes and reporting against targets
It is vital that you build the capacity to track and report on your sourcing strategy’s progress from the start of your journey. As a minimum, you will need to track the total amount of cotton your business uses, as well as the total amount of sustainable cotton.
Make sure you have established an internal process for who will collect the necessary documents related to the relevant standards and chain of custody (e.g. transaction certificates, output declaration forms) and where these files are collated and stored internally for demonstrated compliance in case of audits. The rules around these activities are found in the relevant chain of custody procedures of the different sustainability options
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