Ecological Sourcing, Ethical Manufacturing, and Efficient Operations in the Fashion Industry

Utilizing SupplyBloc Technology to Give Fashion Industry Supply-Chains a Much Needed Makeover

Being ethical and ecologically friendly is an increasingly important consideration for clothing and apparel businesses. Fashion industry participants can use SupplyBloc to ensure that their raw materials are sourced in an ecologically friendly manner, their apparel is manufactured ethically, and that their entire operation uses real-time data registration and auditing to create efficiencies throughout their supply-chain.

In order to ensure ethical sourcing of raw materials, SupplyBloc will provide our blockchain ledger and management platform to register all raw materials with unique IDs. All individual interactions with these raw materials will be indelibly recorded and readily accessible to all members of the fashion supply-chain. For example, cotton used for textiles will have its entire life-cycle, from seed-to-harvest, registered on the SupplyBloc platform.

Before an individual batch of cotton leaves the farm, it will have an entire lifetime of data associated with it. This data can be audited by anyone in the supply-chain, enabling participants to enjoy full transparency into the quality of plant care, the labor involved in its cultivation and harvesting, and the genetics of the plant itself. Members of the fashion supply-chain can easily ensure ethical and responsible sourcing of all raw material.

Know exactly what your products are made of.

Responsible manufacturing will start with ethical sourcing. After raw materials are purchased by larger manufacturers, their entire utilization of these materials will then be registered and transparently audit-able by all SupplyBloc supply-chain participants. Manufacturers can easily pinpoint and weed out any unsustainable, unethical, or inefficient practices. Likewise, other supply-chain members can hold manufacturers accountable for their labor and production methods.

Make data-driven design and manufacturing decisions.

Participants that are further down the supply chain will have total transparency into the labor conditions of the manufacturers that they associate with. So too will the consumers or end-users. In this way, SupplyBloc will bring accountability and moral responsibility to the fashion industry while simultaneously providing increased logistical and management efficiencies in order to avoid profit loss and improve ethicality and ecological friendliness.

Technology for Fashion/Ethics Use-Case:

• The SupplyBloc Platform will provide tracking of proofs for ethical behavior.
• Users will have the ability to establish rewards for these proofs.
• Participants (stakers) that are caught performing unethical behaviors will be penalized — their stake will be distributed to compensate the other participants who have been wronged.
• Users will be able to provide conditions of additional rewards for ethical behaviour

Fashion Industry/Ethics Smart Contract Workflow:

Step-by-Step Description of the Fashion/Ethics Operational Flow:

1. The user enters the platform and pays the platform for the services (namely the Reward SC and Supply Chain SC).
2. The Supply Chain SC distributes payment to the business for providing services.
3. The Reward SC asks the Oracle node whether the services were executed in the proper way (according to industry and regulatory standards).
4. The Oracle node verifies the information with the Business through the SupplyBloc platform and sends this data back to the Reward SC.
5. If the reply is in line with predefined requirements within the Reward SC, it sends the SUPX token reward to the business.