Higg Launches Traceability Partner Program for Supply Chain Sustainability

Backed by FibreTrace®, atma.io™ by Avery Dennison and TrusTrace, Higg launches a new traceability program for identifying sustainability impacts, validating product chain of custody and advancing supply chain transparency.

September 24th, 2021

Written by FibreTrace®

A clear future for fashion.

Higg has launched a new traceability program enabling comprehensive traceability across the global supply chain. The Higg traceability program, backed by FibreTrace®, atma.io™ by Avery Dennison and TrusTrace, aims to accelerate global brands efforts to track environment and social impacts within their manufacturing processes, ensure fibre integrity and understand, communicate, and accelerate product sustainability, across every aspect of supply. 

The program is designed to enable consumer brands to identify and share the supply chain provenance of billions of items, highlight and disclose sustainability information and validate fibre authenticity, sharing this verified sustainability data with the public and stakeholders.

“Consumer goods businesses face a tremendous urgency to accelerate sustainability improvements and need comprehensive tools and contextualized data that can illuminate untracked areas of the supply chain,” said Higg CEO Jason Kibbey. “Together with some of the world’s most advanced traceability innovators, we’re bringing robust new capabilities onto the Higg platform to enable brand and retailer customers to understand and trace product certifications and provenance.”  

FibreTrace® will be integrating its unique services with the Higg Facility Environment Module to connect a network of 45,000 users, 500 brands/retailers, and tens of thousands of manufacturers’ factories, bringing product chain-of-custody tracking to the robust platform.  

FibreTrace® brings a unique advantage to the program as the technology is implemented at raw fibre source, tracing and verifying that fibre throughout the global supply chain in retail in addition to collecting primary farm data that is third party verified, adding a new layer of data and depth. 

“We’re thrilled to partner with these organisations, all of whom are committed to advancing transparency and sustainability, and each of whom brings unique capabilities needed by the industry,” Kibbey said. “Higg is laser-focused on aggregating quality environmental, social and governance data, to provide a single source of truth for consumer goods industries. Partnering with best-in-class traceability innovators is a critical step in helping our customers make better informed sustainability decisions.” 

FibreTrace®, atma.io™ by Avery Dennison and TrusTrace will enable blockchain technologies to support tracking and tracing of a product’s chain of custody, streamline certification claims, and address material movement, supplier data, consumer engagement, and brand protection.

The collaborative approach across the global industry seeks to provide both immediate, verified insights to Higg users, and allows brands to better understand their impact and incite meaningful change.

“Without transparency we can’t improve the impact of the global textile industry for future generations,” said Shannon Mercer, CEO of FibreTrace®. “FibreTrace®® combines physical and digital traceability for verification of a fibres sustainability credentials – combine this with Higgs ability to incorporate data across every facility in a supply chain...it empowers brands to make best practice sustainable decisions right from the start”.

Representing the world’s largest dataset for the footwear, apparel, and textile industry, and providing services to the largest global consumer goods retail platforms, Higg will enable FibreTrace®, atma.io™ by Avery Dennison and TrusTrace to broadly engage with global corporations while providing Higg platform customers access to leading traceability solutions.

ABOUT HIGG

Higg is the sustainability insights platform for consumer goods businesses – delivering software and services for measuring, managing, and sharing supply chain performance data. 

From materials to products, from facilities to stores, from emissions to working conditions, Higg unlocks a complete view of a business’s social and environmental impact. 

Built on the leading framework for sustainability measurement, Higg is trusted by global brands, retailers, and manufacturers to provide the single-source of ESG intelligence they need to accelerate business and industry transformation.

Launched in 2019 as a public-benefit corporation, Higg is the exclusive licensee of the Higg Index, the industry-leading value chain measurement methodology developed by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.