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Supply Chain
On 31 December 2008, we worked with more than 1,050 independent factories from around the world who manufactured our products in 66 countries. Many of these are in one of the following six countries: China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Turkey or Vietnam.
Workers in our suppliers' factories play a central role in our programme. It was concern for their working conditions that led us to write our 'Workplace Standards'. These standards set out the Group’s position on a number of challenging labour issues workers can face including:
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Working hours
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Fair wages
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Freedom of association
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Child labour.
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To explain how we expect our suppliers to live up to our Standards, we have produced a number of supporting guidelines that further define expectations for fair, healthy and safe workplace conditions. All companies that source from developing countries face challenges in implementing codes of conduct such as our Workplace Standards.
Our strategy is based on a long-term vision of self-governance in our supply chain where suppliers take ownership of their compliance programme. To achieve this, we need to act both as inspectors and advisors – assessing management commitment to compliance and the effectiveness of the programme, and providing help and support to suppliers to ensure success in the long term.
Supplier factory list and licensee factory list
In early 2007, the adidas Group published a question and answer booklet on the integration of the adidas and Reebok social compliance programmes. In that booklet, we pledged to finalise our Group-wide compliance data management system – that is, the Fair Factories Clearinghouse (FFC) – and achieve greater supply chain transparency. We have met our target and as a result we are posting a global supplier factory list and a licensee factory list which we regularly update. The first list includes international export and local market factories as well as sewing subcontractors but excludes our licensees’ factories. These are disclosed in the second document.
More about our supply chain can be found in our online report 2007: Striving to improve performance.
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