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- Category: Blogs
- BLOG: With Cascale, Better Buying Legacy Lives On
- GUEST BLOG: Will regulators become the next source of audit fatigue? Steve Lamar, AAFA President and CEO
- GUEST BLOG: Taking First Steps on Responsible Purchasing Practices, by Áine Clarke, Head of KnowTheChain
- GUEST BLOG: Why suppliers have the most to gain from open data, by Hannah Lennett, Director of Stakeholder Engagement at Open Supply Hub
- GUEST BLOG: Collaboration is the New Compliance, by Steve Lamar, President and CEO OF American Apparel & Footwear Association
- ARTICLE: Do you know how the Better Buying Purchasing Practices IndexTM was created?
- GUEST BLOG: Responsible purchasing practices as a tool to promote ethical behavior
- ARTICLE: Has the concept of “leverage” had its day? Dr. Marsha Dickson
- GUEST BLOG: Wage negotiations in Bangladesh – lessons for the global apparel industry, from Steve Lamar, AAFA President and CEO
- ARTICLE: The Apparel Industry is a Real Mess, writes Dr. Marsha Dickson
- ARTICLE: Getting Started on the Path to Responsible Purchasing Practices: Time to ditch the buzzwords for clear and measurable action, Dr. Marsha Dickson
- Putting the Brakes on Purchasing Practices Survey Fatigue: An article from Dr. Marsha Dickson
- Putting Audit Fatigue in the Past. A guest blog from Stephen E Lamar, AAFA President and CEO
- Copenhagen 2023: A Roadmap for Ambition to Action on purchasing practices – an article from Dr. Marsha Dickson
- Michael Cai, Décor Global’s Director of Operations and Supply Chain: Better BuyingTM as a Catalyst for Change
- The 2023 Ratings Cycle is Open for Supplier Ratings!
- Article: Action Speaks Louder Than Words on Purchasing Practices
- Guest Blog: An Era of Smart Accountability, by Stephen E Lamar, AAFA President and CEO
- Are you ready to comply with Germany’s new Act on Corporate Due Diligence in Supply Chains?
- SUPPLIERS: three reasons to complete the Better Buying Partnership IndexTM
- Guest Blog: Better Buying’s newest Board Member, Shahi Exports’ Anaht Ahuja, on why sustainability is inextricably linked to purchasing practices
- The Path to Responsible Purchasing: brands and retailers are too different for a ‘one size fits all’ approach to developing standards
- GUEST BLOG: Michael Levine, Chief Sustainability Officer for Under Armour, Inc.
- Copenhagen: shaping fashion’s “new era”
- Guest Blog: The need for robust FIRST MILE thinking
- Living Wages: Time for an Annual Health Check?
- Guest Blog: The Better Buying Partnership IndexTM shows that too often, communication between brands is more about dictation than a conversation, says Bulent Alkanli
- Apparel brands often talk about the “great” partnerships they have with their suppliers. But what really makes a “True Partner?”
- Better Buying Institute launches “best in class” purchasing practices e-learning course for brands and retailers
- The S Factor: Why investors should be using Better BuyingTM data to better understand human rights risks in supply chains
- Learning to Say No
- The Impact of Purchasing Practices on Workers’ Human Rights
- A goodbye message from Leonie Barrie-Abraham as she departs Just Style for Better Buying Institute
- Category: Case studies
- CASE STUDY: Target Corporation
- CASE STUDY: BBI Subscriber Company
- CASE STUDY: BBI Subscriber Company
- CASE STUDY: BBI Subscriber Company
- CASE STUDY: Birger Christensen Collective
- CASE STUDY: Win-Win Partnership – Michael Cai, Decor Apparel
- CASE STUDY: SanMar Corporation
- CASE STUDY: Large retailer
- CASE STUDY: Global retailer
- CASE STUDY: Global consumer goods company
- Category: News
- NEWS RELEASE: Cascale Issues 2025 Better Buying Partnership Index Report
- NEWS RELEASE: Cascale Announces Better Buying Asset Purchase to Advance Responsible Purchasing Practices and Decent Work for All
- NEWS RELEASE: Focus on including all variables in your cost models if want to want to be better buyers, suppliers tell global brands and retailers
- NEWS RELEASE: BBPPI 2024: More than 70% of BBI repeat subscribers increase their overall purchasing practices score, with Sporting Goods companies performing better than Fashion Goods companies across all categories
- NEWS RELEASE: Better Buying Institute Publishes 2024 BBPPI Garment Scorecard
- NEWS RELEASE: BBPI 2024 – Overall partnership score for Softgoods up 8 Points
- NEWS RELEASE: Harmonized social assessments from SLCP continue to be “win-win” for workers and sustainable partnerships
- NEWS STORY: BBPPI Report 2023 – BBI repeat subscribers continue to improve, but progress remains slow and uneven
- ARTICLE in Vogue Business: Are fashion’s buying practices really improving?
- NEWS RELEASE: Better Buying Institute Publishes 2023 BBPPI Garment Scorecard
- GUEST BLOG: Improving Purchasing Practices in the Global Seafood Industry: It’s Time, Garrett Okrasinski
- EVENT: Dr. Marsha Dickson to Speak at Innovation Forum’s Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference 2024
- Check Out Our New Interactive Business Benefits Page!
- Better Buying Institute Publishes First Industry Score for Commercial Compliance
- Introducing Katie Hess, Better Buying’s new Head of Product
- VIDEO TOOLKIT: How Better Buying’s tools and resources support companies to meet human rights due diligence reporting requirements
- Non-apparel companies urged to “take the lead” on human rights due diligence by subscribing to the Better Buying Partnership IndexTM
- Assessing Purchasing Practices: an overview of approaches and tools
- Better Buying Partnership Index TM 2023: Buyer-supplier partnership quality up by just one point on last year
- Better Buying Institute at Innovation Forum’s Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference in Amsterdam
- Special Report: Purchasing Practices and Factory-Level Noncompliances: How the available research can inform supply chain due diligence
- The STTI Survey of Commercial Compliance is Open for Ratings – complete by January 20th
- An End of Year Message from the Better BuyingTM Team
- PRESS RELEASE: Workers Benefit When Brands and Retailers Accept Standardized Audits from Suppliers
- Dr. Marsha Dickson honored in Vogue Business 100 Innovators: Sustainability Thought Leaders
- Hey Fashion! Talk – join Dr. Marsha Dickson, Eileen Fisher and Shiraz Omar on tackling overproduction
- Better Buying Institute joins Sustainable Apparel Coalition as Affiliate Member
- We’re Hiring! Could you be our new Research Analyst?
- Shahi Exports’ Anant Ahuja joins Better Buying Institute Board
- Join Better Buying’s Talent Pool
- The BBPPI 2022 Garment Scorecard is Out Today!
- We are Hiring! Could you be our next Senior Manager of Research?
- Beyond Tier-1 – New Opportunities for Better BuyingTM Surveys
- Copenhagen Fashion Summit: STTI calls for responsible purchasing practices and global standardization on due diligence
- VIDEO: What is Better BuyingTM?
- BBPPI 2022 Ratings Cycle Open for Ratings April 1st-May 31st
- STTI’s First In-Person Meeting Brings Commercial Compliance One Step Closer
- Brands and Retailers Urged to Halt Buyer-Specific Audits after Research Finds Audit Harmonization Saving Suppliers Thousands of Dollars a Year
- Brands and Retailers Must Partner with Suppliers on Innovation to Drive Business Efficiency
- We’re Hiring! We’re Looking for Local Ambassadors, and a Research Intern, to Support with the 2022 Ratings Cycle.
- Better Buying Institute Continues Expansion into Consumer Goods Sector with Focus on Homegoods
- Better BuyingTM Repeat Subscribers Continue to Improve Purchasing Practices Despite Unprecedented Challenge of COVID-19
- SanMar Corporation Becomes First Better BuyingTM Subscriber to Make its Scorecard Publicly Available
- The Five Principles of Responsible PurchasingTM: Better BuyingTM Launches High-Level Principles for Brands and Retailers
- Sustainable Terms of Trade Initiative publishes White Paper on Commercial Compliance
- Audit harmonization can reduce supplier costs by thousands, and drive investment in social and labor conditions
- Deep Dive: Monthly Order Variability
- Suppliers reveal simple, low-cost changes buyer companies can make to boost sustainability performance
- Dr Marsha Dickson guests on Manufactured Podcast series
- Assessing Purchasing Practices Impacts on Suppliers and Workers
- Deep Dive Report on “Better” Design, Development
- Better Buying Releases New Report Calling for Minimally Acceptable Payment Standards
- 2020 Better Buying Index ReportTM Released
- Better BuyingTM Spotlight on Hardgoods
- Better Buying Releases New Report: Cost and Cost Negotiation and the Need for New Practices
- Webinar: Creating an equitable fashion industry
- Joint Call to Action: Responding Responsibly to the COVID-19 Crisis
- Webinar: Keeping Workers Centerstage
- Guidelines for “Better” Purchasing Practices Amidst the Coronavirus Crisis and Recovery
- Better Buying Introduces New Program to Support Improved Purchasing Practices
- 2019 Better BuyingTM Index Report Released
- Second-Ever Better BuyingTM Index Report Released
- Better BuyingTM a Focus at 2018 Hong Kong Fashion Summit
- Better BuyingTMAnnounces Ambassadors to Support Supplier Ratings of Critical Purchasing Practices
- New Platform Seeks To Improve the Relationship Between Buyers and Suppliers
- Just Style Interview with Dr. Marsha Dickson: Can Supplier Ratings Reform Apparel Purchasing Practices?
- White Paper Prepared for Better Buying’s Geneva Workshop
- New Better BuyingTM Initiative Aims to Eliminate the Barriers to Code of Conduct Compliance Caused by Purchasing Practices
- Category: Video
- VIDEO: How to read your BBPPI Company Report
- VIDEO: Suppliers on the benefits of rating their customers’ purchasing practices
- VIDEO: Tutorial for suppliers and manufacturers – how to submit a rating to Better BuyingTM
- VIDEO: SanMar Corp: how subscribing with Better BuyingTM helps us be a great partner to our vendor base
