Traceability: The Respect-Code Solution

Abstract

This chapter introduces the Respect-Code, a public online platform which gives access to all steps of a production process and to a description of the conditions under which garments were produced. Every detail about the spinning, knitting, dyeing, printing, and confection of the traced products can be made available, with summarized, and detailed data about the product, its social and environmental performance, the brand and its values, the supply chain and its mapping. Audits and certificates obtained by the factories forming part of the supply chain can also be viewed. This information is available not only to end consumers, but also to all stakeholders. The Respect-Code solution is gaining significance in times where stakeholders increasingly demand transparency as well as traceability of products and production processes. The idea is that traceability leading to transparency will bring the production of goods to higher CSR standards, better control and increased efficiency in the production lines and the potential acquisition of new customers.