Better Cotton Initiative
Lea Michalczik BCI Traceability Systems Coordinator 2016
1 Chain of Custody Guidelines & Traceability System
The Better Cotton Chain of Custody
Better Cotton Chain of Custody Guidelines - rules for how to deal with physical Better Cotton in the supply chain
Better Cotton Tracer - online traceability platform used to track Better Cotton purchases and sales
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Participants are muted
Questions / comments in the comment box on the right side of your screen
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Better Cotton Chain of Custody Guidelines - rules for how to deal with physical Better Cotton in the supply chain
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Better Cotton is kept separately from In order to create 100% Better Cotton conventional cotton at the gin level Bales
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Mass-balance = traceability of volumes
BCCU = Better Cotton Claim Unit
» 1 BCCU represents 1 kilo of physical Better Cotton
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Mass-balance administration
Company 1 kg Better Cotton
1 kg Conventional Cotton
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3 kg of Cotton
Credit: 2 BCCUs
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Advantages of mass-balance administration
Zero wait time on bales to arrive
Flexibility in bale use
Easy traceability
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Trader: Country scope
Trader 1 kg Brazilian Better Cotton
1 kg Brazilian Conventional Cotton
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Spinner: Site scope
Spinner 1 kg Brazilian Better Cotton
1 kg Indian Conventional Cotton
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PURCHASE INVENTORY SALE
Better Cotton from - Burkina Faso Yarn sold as Better Cotton yarn - Brazil, with bales originating from - Turkey - Greece - Burkina Faso Better Cotton Tracer Inventory - Turkey - the US
Yarn sold as conventional yarn using the bales originating from Conventional - Greece cotton from - Burkina Faso - the US - The US - Greece
Physical Cotton Inventory
Spinners don’t have to use the physical Better Cotton bales BCCUs can be transferred between bales of different origins Spinner can keep their existing blend 16 Chain of Custody Guidelines
CoC guidelines: separation at gin level, further explanation
17 Better Cotton Tracer
Better Cotton Tracer - online traceability platform used to track Better Cotton purchases and sales
18 Better Cotton Tracer
Tracer access is optional
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• Your Better Cotton Buy Better Cotton Declare purchase in the Sell Better Cotton Your Better Cotton Better Cotton Tracer inventory goes up inventory goes down • No physical separation needed
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Your Better Cotton Inventory
Your Better Cotton Transactions
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One party enters a transaction
The other party acknowledges it
22 YARN SALE
Select their name Your from the drop down BCCUs automatically allocated customer IS list when you register on the Tracer the sale of fabric
Your Select ‘Manual Entry Generate Output customer IS Option’ and type the Declaration Form (ODF) NOT on the name of your through the Tracer and Tracer customer email to your customer FABRIC SALE
Select their name Your from the drop down BCCUs automatically allocated customer IS list when you register on the Tracer the sale of fabric
Select their name You DO know who from the drop down BCCUs automatically your end user is list when you register allocated the sale of fabric
Your customer IS NOT on the Tracer
Select ‘Manual Entry Generate Output You DO NOT know Option’ and type the Declaration Form (ODF) who your end user is name of your through the Tracer and customer email to your customer END PRODUCT SALE
Select their name You DO know from the drop down BCCUs automatically allocated who the end list when you register user is the sale of fabric
You DO NOT Select ‘Manual Entry Generate Output know who Option’ and type the Declaration Form (ODF) your end user name of your through the Tracer and s but selling customer email to your customer to an agent RETAILERS Depending on whether your supplier is a Tracer user or not, there are two ways of receiving BCCUs in your account’s inventory.
A) Receiving BCCUs automatically by your End Product supplier.
B) Acknowledge a transaction
C) Enter the ODF number RETAILERS Generally – when you receive an ODF, please take a look at the ‘Instructions for Retailer’ at the bottom of the page. THANK YOU!
Please contact us at any time to: Ask any questions regarding our traceability system Your account on Better Cotton Tracer To get a copy of this presentation Report troubles you identified in your BC supply chain
Lea Michalczik – BCI Traceability Systems Coordinator [email protected]
Kerem Saral – BCI Supply Chain Manager [email protected]
Seyma Karacay Lokmaci – Turkey Supply Chain & Membership Officer [email protected]
Manish Gupta - India Supply Chain Coordinator [email protected]
Muhammad Shuaib – Pakistan Supply Chain Coordinator [email protected]
Leo Xiao - China Supply Chain Coordinator [email protected] 28