Global supply chain traceability and compliance platform TrusTrace released its new framework to streamline data collection and comply with industry regulations. Playbook: The Data Advantage—A Practical Guide to Building De-risked, Compliant and Future-Ready Supply Chains launched at the Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen.
The playbook introduces the TrusTrace Compliance Canvas, a framework designed to help brands and manufacturers more effectively collaborate on streamlined, standardized supply chain data. TrusTrace worked with brands such as Adidas, Hugo Boss and Primark to gain insights into their processes and needs for data collection and traceability.
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“At Primark, we’ve focused on creating clarity for our suppliers by aligning on the data that matters most and building the internal systems and skills to use it well,” said Cari Atkinson, head of product traceability and assurance at Primark. “Working with TrusTrace has helped us turn complex data requirements into something more manageable for our teams and suppliers.”
TrusTrace’s playbook is structured around four pillars. The minimum data package of the TrusTrace Compliance Canvas offers a streamlined summary of essential data points for compliance with industry regulations, creating a common foundation for collaboration to reduce the data collection and reporting burden. The second pillar is understanding data requirements, which is a clear breakdown of current and upcoming environmental, social and governance regulations, outlining data needed, why it matters and how to comply.
The third pillar, practical insights from industry leaders, includes the input from fashion brands, as well as perspectives from Epic Group, Impetus Group and Karacasu Tekstil, ranging from raw material sourcing to garment finishing.
“This work is going to create a demand for data…and the lack of harmonization across countries means we need a taxonomy..besides just the [rule of] law,” said Tércio Pinto, head of innovation at Impetus Group.
And finally, the executive briefing and future risk outlook includes insights from AAFA, Policy Hub, TrusTrace and the London School of Economics on the growing legal, financial and reputational risks companies face and how robust supply chain data can help mitigate that risk.
“My north star is to get supply chain-related data to the same robustness as financial data,” said Sigrid Buehrle, senior vice president of sustainability and ESG at Adidas. “That’s where we need to get to, with an effective data landscape and a standardized approach to data collection and evaluation.”
TrusTrace said that contributing brands and suppliers emphasized the challenges presented by subjective interpretation of regulations coupled with a lack of standardization of methodologies as barriers to effective sustainability and traceability reporting. Through its Compliance Canvas platform, which is enhanced by AI technology, brands and suppliers can standardize how supply chain material traceability data is captured, digitized and shared.
“As data becomes the new cornerstone of compliance and climate readiness, brands need more than intention—they need infrastructure,” said Shameek Ghosh, CEO and co-founder of TrusTrace. “This playbook outlines what actionable, standardized data collaboration should look like.”
