- New EU directives: how supply chain manage💎ment is chang☂ing
- Transparency through data
- Strengthening sustainability through s🐓table suppl🐬ier relationships
- Cooperation as the key toไ sustainable supply chain management
- Seizing opportunities: How sustainability becomes economꦏic success
- Learnings on EU-compliant supply chain m🀅anagement for manuꦡfacturers
- CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive)
Since January 2024, companies in the EU have been obliged to disclose their sustainability performance in the areas of environmental, social and governance (ESG) and thus take responsibility fꦑor their social and ecolo🔴gical impact. The first CSRD reports are due in 2025. - CSDDD (🌼Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive)
Companies with more than 1🅠,000 employees and a turnover of 450 million euros in the EU have been fully responsible for their entire supply chains since June 2024. Not only must their own manufacturing processes be sustainable, but all suppliers and subcontractors must also demonstrably contribute to ensuring that the business model meets the Paris climate targets.
All EU member states must transpose th𒐪is duty of care into national law within two years of its adoption and hold companies liable under civil law. The le𓆉gislation will be gradually extended to the entire industry and will also affect small companies by 2027.
Brands such as and feel vindicated by the new legislation. Clear rules have long been needed to force the entire textile industry to take more responsibility, says Nick Allen, Dire🌃ctor of Transparency at Patagonia. The sad fact is that, with up to 1.7 billion tons of CO₂ emissions per year, they cause more than the aviation and shipping industries combined.
Reducing CO₂ emissions requires greater 🌸transparency in supply chains, which starts with accurate data collection. "Reporting is becoming the most important requirement. You have to ask yourself: What data do I need?" says Chiara Mingozzi from the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI).
Patagonia has been working hard for eight years to make the entire supply chain transparent by collecting, analyzing and evaluating data. "The outdoor industry has already come a long way," says Allen. However, according to Philipp Mayer, founder of the supply chain compliance platform Retraced, less than 40 percent of aꦬll textile companies know what their supply chain looks like after Tier 1. And less than 20 percent have insight into the processes downstream of Tier 2. The key to greater transparency is data, data and more data, says Mayer.
In addition to , other good partners also provide assistance with data collection. has been relying on the support of 's experts for ye♚ars. With the help of detailed supply chain analyses, they sound out the greatest impacts, conduct risk management taking into account the climate crisis and make 💖the opportunities of sustainable business visible - and ultimately an attractive business case.
Bettina Roth, Head of Quality Management💙 & CSR Supply Chain at VAUDE, underlines the need for standardized solutions for data collection🧜:
