Integral to creating scale required to succeed
“Nike believes collaboration between brands in the monitoring and capacity building of contract factories is essential to driving positive, systemic change for workers around the world. The FFC's platform enables the information sharing integral to maximizing financial and operational efficiency for both brands and manufacturers. Eliminating redundancies in auditing and capacity building will enable the critical mass participation necessary to leverage our shared goal of decent work across global supply chains.”
Phillip Boyett
Collaboration Manager
Nike, Inc.
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Who Are We & What Do We Offer?
We are a Non-Profit Organization Improving Business Conditions
We are a unique 501(c)(3) membership community of businesses collaborating to use technology to enable cost effective, well-informed ethical business transactions and improved workplaces around the globe.
We Offer A Full Package of Solutions for Improved Workplace Management
We provide web-based software to manage and share information about workplace conditions on labor, health & safety, ethical, environmental and security standards -- leading to improved supply chain/workplace efficiency, oversight, accountability and economy.
We offer two modules: Audit Management System & Sharing Platform. Purchaser Members can purchase both, or just the Sharing Platform. Supply Chain Intermediaries and Production Supplier Members get both, except they do not have the ability to search or access document posted by in the sharing platform by Purchasers. Service Providers get the Audit Management System.
Membership in the FFC gives you full access to an all-inclusive supply chain/workplace responsibility technical solution: our proven and secure web-based application, unlimited logins, unlimited usage, data hosting, data security, ongoing software maintenance and upgrades, participating in user working groups, and helpdesk support.
The systems architecture is based on a Microsoft.Net platform with the latest version of Microsoft SQL-Server as the back-end database, and Sunguard, a professional hosting facility, securely hosts it.
We Offer Shared Expertise and Resources
As a member, you join a growing community of business people pooling resources and expertise - increasing effectiveness, reducing workload and costs, assessing and improving supply chain compliance or specific workplace conditions together.
We Offer Technology Innovation Through Collaboration
The FFC is a member-driven organization and our members are actively engaged in the growth of our software. As such, our software reflects the cumulative well-informed business requirements needs of our members. FFC's membership needs is the root of our commitment to future innovation, suggesting directions for future technology tools on your behalf.
A Printable Presentation On FFC's Software Solutions
If you'd like to get to know our software a little better, please feel free to download our PDF "An Overview of FFC's Software Solutions" (5.8MB), a PDF of a presentation on everything you need to know about the FFC's software tools. |
| FFC Software Statistics* |
Factories |
24,503 |
Intermediaries (Licensees, Agents, Vendors) |
5,363 |
Users |
3,806 |
Countries |
131 |
Audits |
49,082 |
Self Assessments |
11,933 |
Compliance Documents Total (Audits + Self Assessments) |
61,015 |
Audits (last 12 months) |
10,039 |
Self Assessments (last 12 months) |
3,818 |
Compliance Documents (last 12 months) |
13,857 |
Factories with Audits |
13,150 |
Factories with Self Assessments |
9,905 |
Factories with Audits (%) |
53.67 |
Factories with Self Assessments (%) |
40.42 |
Factories with Compliance Documents (%) |
94.09 |
Factories Shared by More Than One Member |
3,064 |
Compliance Documents Stored on Shared Factories |
13,923 |
Shared Documents (Sharing Platform) |
3,338 |
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