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Assessing Purchasing Practices: an overview of approaches and tools

This kind of mapping and analysis work can be useful for offering more guidance and clarity to companies looking to improve their purchasing practices. But this report does a disservice to the industry by not highlighting the full array of tools and services available. Such omissions can be misleading for companies who review this report […]

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Better Buying Partnership Index TM 2023: Buyer-supplier partnership quality up by just one point on last year 

Buyers urged to focus on communication with suppliers amid decline in business stability  READ FULL REPORT READ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The quality of buyer-supplier partnerships in global supply chains has only slightly improved since last year, indicating that suppliers are still feeling the impact of disruption more than two years on from the onset of the […]

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Better Buying Institute at Innovation Forum’s Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference in Amsterdam

Better Buying Institute is proud to join Innovation Forum’s Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference in Amsterdam (April 25-26). This two-day business conference will address how brands must align and adapt practices to deliver on growing stakeholder expectations. We’ll equip delegates with the best-practice and guidance to develop net-zero strategies, transform supply chains, engage consumers, scale […]

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Guest Blog: An Era of Smart Accountability, by Stephen E Lamar, AAFA President and CEO

“The industry must be held accountable!” This type of declaration is often heard as a justification for why new and additional regulations are so desperately needed for the fashion industry, for example to help with traceability and transparency efforts. Advocates and policymakers alike bemoan what they see as a lack of progress in achieving a […]