Everything You Need To Build Sustainable Supply Chains
While your team is working to implement sustainable products and supply chains, Texbase supports your impactful work throughout the entire workflow from sustainable material sourcing to consumer product safety. Texbase helps you communicate with your supply chain and document the lifecycle of your material resources, while tracking the data required to make critical business decisions and protect your brand.
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Sourcing Sustainable Materials
Transitioning to regenerative, renewable, or recycled materials requires discipline and data. Texbase Materials provides your own fiber, yarn, fabric and trim libraries to track all this while MaterialFirst Marketplace gives you online access to all REPREVE® and OEKO-TEX® 100 certified fabrics and trims to search and import. Build specs, track developments, apply certifications and define supply chains. Use Material Connect to have your suppliers insert and update data in real time.
Verifying Performance
Sustainable materials need to perform at least as well as the materials they're replacing. To ensure that your materials are meeting the demands of your customers you need data. You need it to be accurate, specific, valid and you need it fast. Whether it's data from your internal labs, nominated supplier labs or independent labs, Texbase Testing captures it all and gives you the tools you need to analyze it and make your decisions.
Mapping the Supply Chain
Consumer demand for transparency combined with emerging circular supply chains demand software that’s intelligent enough to help document the complex relationships within our industry.
Supply Chain Mapping in Texbase lets everyone creating materials to build their own micro-supply chains that when used in products, provides full traceability throughout every tier of the supply chain. It's a whole new way of defining what a supply chain is.
Tracking Certifications
Ethical sourcing and sustainable practices are an integral part of choosing your suppliers and selecting the best materials for your products. There are a multitude of ingredient brands and third party services that can help you validate suppliers and their product's compliance through various certifications. Keeping track of them however, can be arduous.
Certification Manager in Texbase allows you to define the certifications that are critical to your company, apply them to various objects (suppliers, yarns, fabrics, trims, etc.) and track their numbers and expiration dates so you never stop developing without compromise.
Collaborating with Suppliers
Texbase Connect simplifies the development and commercialization of raw materials and ensure the quality of production goods by allowing global suppliers and labs to send and update critical data to you via a secure Texbase portal.
This expedites the materials and testing process and eliminates the need for email and manual transfer of information. Improved accuracy and communication facilitates a faster response to your requests and queries.