Best Practices for Managing Ethical Sourcing & Vendor Compliance

• Compliance & Quality are the top most priority matters of MAF Clothing Pvt Ltd. All Compliance related documents and records are maintained up to date as per the law of the land. The Factories are always compliant in all respect and are auditable .
• Making Ethical Sourcing decisions continues to be a challenge.
• Fashion Supply Chains are under intense scrutiny.
• Concerns after recent factory tragedies have emphasized the need for more transparency.

MAF Clothing Pvt. Ltd. is governed by its own code of conduct, policies & procedures based on SA-8000. The factories are SEDEX approved and are 100% export oriented. The factories are socially, ethically and technically compliant to its stringiest terms.

Vendor Compliance

Document Management

• Standards Of Vendor Engagement are housed & available on
• Reports, Audits &Communication

Agent/Vendor/Factory Profiles

• Each supplier’s capabilities
• Current Certifications
• Compliance and quality score carding

Collaborative communications

• Tied to specific events,
• Audits
• Styles
• Purchase Orders

Product Compliance

• A comprehensive testing and quality module that is integrated to our supply chain
• The ability to issue test requests, manage the testing process, issue alerts when there are failures or tests not completed on time
• The ability to have visibility into the timeline of testing by all parties

Regulatory Compliance

• Consolidate information about product testing and factory compliance from multiple systems into a single source
• Collaborate with external parties (suppliers and 3rd party testing companies) for test execution and monitoring
• Providing real-time data management and decision support to ensure that senior management receive accurate information on causes, financial impact, and mitigating actions to control risk

Environmental Compliance

• The Sustainable Apparel Coalition is an industry-wide group of more than 80 apparel and footwear brands, retailers, suppliers, nonprofits and NGOs committed to reducing the environmental and social impacts of apparel and footwear products around the world.
• The coalition’s main focus is the Higg Index, a tool that measures the environmental performance of apparel products using three models of sustainability:
  • Brand, Product and Facility
  • A PLM (A product lifecycle management) system should be able to house and track the Higg Index score for your factories and products

World’s most renown buyers, i.e. Primark, Penneys, Levis, H&M, Matalan, Next, Best & less, Auchan and Monoprix are some of the best known global companies who are the customers of MAF Clothing Pvt. Ltd.