Chemical Inventory Conformance Monitoring - Performance InCheck

BV CPS is a world-leading concept-to-consumer supply chain solutions partner working with organizations throughout the supply chain. With well in excess of 100 offices and laboratories spread around the world, we are proud to be the quality managers for many of the world’s leading brands, retailers and their supply chains.

With a presence in every major sourcing and selling territory around the world, our testing, inspection, certification and advisory solutions help companies making, distributing or selling consumer and technology products to improve their: product quality, safety, connectivity, security and environmental compliance, sourcing flexibility, speed-to-market, profitability and brand security throughout the supply chain.

Staying ahead of technical and regulatory development with our industry leading technical and engineering services group, focusing on shared objectives and strong client relationships throughout the supply chain as well as our information services platform that allows our clients to make informed sourcing and quality decisions, we are proud to be a global leader within the TIC industry.

CleanChain provides tools to aggregate comparable information between brands and manufacturing facilities providing assessments and reporting scorecards. CleanChain, an ADEC Innovation, is a value chain chemical management system that works in conjunction with the Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) Gateway. Expanding on databases like the ZDHC MRSL, it tracks a user progress toward sustainable and safe chemical use over time and gives users full control to manage their supply chain relationships, inventories and chemical and discharge data.

Supply Chain Environmental Solutions

Intertek is trusted by global apparel and footwear retailers, brands and manufacturers in implementing and assuring chemical management through:

Recognition by ZDHC as a third-party testing certifier to help companies demonstrate MRSL Level 1 conformance to the ZDHC Gateway. Intertek has a comprehensive network of laboratories all over the world and 10 laboratories accepted by ZDHC for wastewater and sludge analysis in connection with the ZDHC Gateway — Wastewater Module ZDHC accepted lab for textiles, leather and MMCF wastewater and sludge analysis services in connection with the ZDHC Gateway — Wastewater Module, with the widest global coverage of 23 laboratories in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America Designation as official ZDHC ATP training provider for both classroom and remote training and education on chemical management, wastewater topics and insights into the practical issues faced by the facilities with the possible management action plans, provided in English or local languages in Asia and Europe Intertek’s Chemical Management Audit solutions, supported by our global network of experienced and highly skilled chemical and environmental auditors, and involvement as an engaged SAC HIGG FEM verifier body Advisory services that help customers improve their own chemical management systems ‍ Intertek is an industry leader operating in 1,000 locations in over 100 countries. We go beyond testing, inspecting and certifying products; we are a Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide.

Sustainable Business Makers

Thanks to Process Factory experience in supporting the ZDHC roadmap implementation through the CHEM 4sustainability® protocol, we have been approved as ZDHC Training Provider and ZDHC InCheck Verifier.

4sustainability® is a registered trademark that guarantees the sustainability performances of the fashion & luxury supply chain through an innovative framework aligned with the best methodologies and standards, based on 6 key-initiatives.

As ZDHC Training Provider, we regularly collaborate with ZDHC for the development of new face-to-face and online courses.

Since 2016, Process Factory has been organising dozens of highly professional sessions at both basic and advanced levels. The international certificate of Chemical Management issued directly by ZDHC on passing the final exam has a validity of two years.

There are five types of sessions that Process Factory is currently organising thanks to its unique experience in the classroom and the field:

CMS Framework for Suppliers CMS Framework for Brands & Retailers CMS TIG Chemical Management for Leather Tanneries Top 10 Issues & Best practices Wastewater Management

The duration and format of each session depends on the way in which it is administered: 4 or 8 hours in a single day for classroom-based sessions, two-and-a-half-hour slots spread over three consecutive days for remote sessions.

Next to the normal training sessions, Process Factory also offers, tailor-made, private sessions for individual organisations. These sessions can be organised face-to-face or as remote training sessions and are reserved exclusively for the organisation’s staff and/or suppliers. These sessions are hosted on the ZDHC Academy platform and can only be accessed by people indicated by the company. The agenda is then defined in close collaboration with Process Factory.

This is an opportunity which not only allows the training to be calibrated to specific goals but also permits the direct involvement of company suppliers, maximising the advantages that only a process shared between the various components of the supply chain can really guarantee.

As part of the process control in the ZDHC strategic chemical management implementation, SGS provides training services according to the courses outlines by ZDHC Academy SGS has joined ZDHC as a contributor and has been an Approved Training Provider (ATP) right after the launch of ZDHC Academy, the training platform under ZDHC program. All of our trainers across our global network are experienced to provide their technical advice during the training. They are equipped with many hours of training experiences on chemical management, capable of delivering key concepts and communicate efficiently with local language. SGS has also maintained internal communications between different parties supporting various ZDHC services, such as wastewater and MRSL formulation testing. While the information is shared among the parties, our training provided is also ensured with up-to-date details from the other ZDHC services.

The BHive® is the leading chemical management platform in the textile and fashion industry, developed by sustainability consultancy GoBlu International Ltd.

Using OCR technology, The BHive® allows manufacturing facilities to take smartphone photos of chemical product labels, and within seconds identify which products meet the sustainability requirements of many brands and retailers. Once uploaded, all scanned chemicals are cross- referenced with The BHive®’s database and the system automatically generates a full and accurate chemical inventory. Facilities can then see which chemicals they should phase out – all at a glance.