Principle 3: Collaborative Production Planning

Ensure your critical path and production planning support decent and stable employment for the workers in your supply chain.

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The Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices

This resource hub is structured around the five principles of the Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices (CFRPP).

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The process for improving purchasing practices

Improving purchasing practices requires a collaborative approach. While individual buyers can make a significant difference, their actions are shaped by broader systems.

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Principle 1: Integration

Responsible sourcing goals need to be recognised within wider company strategy, and backed by clear governance, roles, and responsibilities.

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Engage leadership

Buy-in and commitment from key individuals within your organisation are needed to secure necessary resource and support meaningful change.

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Assess risk and develop an improvement plan

Integral to responsible purchasing is understanding how your current practices affect suppliers and workers — and using that insight to improve.

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Getting started

This resource is a product of the RPP Learning and Implementation Community (LIC)—a peer-learning group of 36 garment brands from across Europe and the UK.

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Collective Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement: Overcoming barriers through collaboration

Executive Director Giles Bolton makes the case for collective meaningful stakeholder engagement and how ETI

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Critical Minerals Innovation Forum

Speaking: Melissa Karadana, ETI Purchasing Practices Programme Lead

Hosted by: Innovation Forum

Join ETI at Innovation Forum’s Critical Minerals Innovation Forum, taking place later this year in London.

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