{"id":28989,"date":"2025-11-13T17:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/?post_type=faq-posts&#038;p=28989"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:39:13","slug":"how-can-brands-use-benchmark-results-to-encourage-collaboration-and-continuous-improvement-with-suppliers","status":"publish","type":"faq-posts","link":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/questions\/how-can-brands-use-benchmark-results-to-encourage-collaboration-and-continuous-improvement-with-suppliers\/","title":{"rendered":"How can brands use benchmark results to encourage collaboration and continuous improvement with suppliers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The benchmark enables brands and suppliers to work from a shared, objective understanding of performance. By providing a consistent and credible way to measure energy use and GHG emissions, sourcing decisions can be aligned with supplier improvement efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brands can use benchmark results to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create alignment: Establish a consistent and transparent measure of performance across facilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Build on existing leadership: Advance the excellent work of pioneering brands that have begun ranking their suppliers by emissions performance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inform sourcing: Identify and reward higher-performing suppliers while supporting those with improvement potential.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide objective facility appraisal: Evaluate both energy use and emissions per kg of production through an approach tailored to specific on-site products and processes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure fair comparisons: Enable facility-to-facility comparisons rather than tracking a single facility\u2019s % reductions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guide manufacturers: Inform operational improvements and investment priorities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prioritize interventions: Highlight low-performing facilities with significant improvement potential. Identify high-performing facilities where further gains may face diminishing returns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faq-categories":[132],"class_list":["post-28989","faq-posts","type-faq-posts","status-publish","hentry","faq-categories-carbon-and-energy-benchmark"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-posts\/28989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq-posts"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-categories?post=28989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}