The New Standard in Global Textile Supply Chains

The UK-headquartered Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) defines ‘ethical sourcing’ as the process of ensuring the products being sourced are obtained in a responsible and sustainable way, the workers involved in making them are safe and treated fairly, and the environmental and social impacts are taken into account during the sourcing process as well as throughout the supply chain. To achieve this, the companies are required to ensure an ethical sourcing of materials along with identification of environmental and social impacts of involved processes. This is required not only to reduce companies’ carbon footprints but also to conserve natural resources. Being one of the most polluting industries on earth, global textile and apparel industry shoulders a greater responsibility in this regard.