What are the key points of factory participation in SLCP validation

With the rapid development of the industry and the updating of rules and requirements, various factory inspection and audit projects have also emerged in the industry. However, many of these audit frameworks have repeatability and similarity, and the results do not drive the supply chain to make changes at key points, but rather blindly engage in repetitive audits.

To address this, we need to adjust our work strategies and work together across the entire industry to create standardized social and labor efficiency evaluation methods in the shoe and clothing manufacturing supply chain, in order to achieve truly sustainable development throughout the entire industry chain.

SLCP is a new evaluation framework affiliated with the Sustainable Clothing Alliance (SAC) organization. The vision and purpose of this project is to promote a universal, simple, unified, and more effective evaluation framework within the industry.

Its purpose is to replace the current self owned CoC audits of various brands and retailers, thereby reducing audit fatigue in foreign trade factories. Currently, it is mainly suitable for the clothing and shoe making industries.

Key points of factory SLCP validation

SLCP verification is different from social compliance review

Since you have completed the answers to all the questions in the tool, the focus of validation is not on collecting data, but on verifying the answers you provide: the validated data does not give "good" or "bad" conclusions, the factory is an active participant in validation, and ultimately the factory is the owner of the evaluation report of the experience certificate. For example, permission is required before sharing data.

Select Verification Company

The validator is a person approved by the Validation Supervision Organization (VOO) to conduct SLCP validation to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the data collected through self/joint evaluation. The Validation Company (VB) is the organization responsible for the work of validators, and they assign validators to you for validation.

Confirm the verification company you have chosen on a validated hosting platform for self joint evaluation.

When you are unable to choose the desired verification company, you may not have selected all the languages used by the factory in the Gateway gateway profile. Verifiers need to speak at least one language spoken by factory workers. Go to your gateway profile and adjust your selection.