The Supplier Refused To Disclose Supply Chain Information Under The Pretext Of "Privacy".

With retailers promoting subcontractors to improve the working environment of industrial workers, the United States

Inc. (NYSE:GPS) M&S and Marks & Spencer Group PLC (MKS.L) Marsha general store M&S began to disclose supplier information step by step.

In September of this year, the Gap Inc. Inc. group disclosed its supplier information, which has 1083 supplier factories worldwide, including 968 in Greater China, South Asia and Southeast Asia, and a small number of factories in Europe and North America.

According to the information disclosed by Gap Inc., the factory environment of the three major supply chain markets is far less than that of Europe and North America.

Gap Inc. Cape group divided the supply chain factories into four grades: Dark Green, Light Green, Yellow, Red, respectively, from good to bad, Excellent, Good, Fair, and Excellent.

Take the 308 factories in the Greater China market in 2014, for example, Dark Green, Light Green, Yellow and Red were four rated factories, accounting for 8.1%, 36%, 34.4% and 21.4% respectively.

The supply chain factories in China are slightly better than those in Kampuchea, Burma and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. In 2014, the Gap Inc. Yellow group had 331 factories, and the Yellow and Red level factories in Southeast Asia accounted for 41.4% and 22.7% respectively.

In the information disclosure of the supply chain,

Hennes & Mauritz AB (HMb.ST) Hayne Maurice group is the earliest practitioner. The Swedish group has always been in the forefront of the industry in terms of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development.

In addition, the US sports brand Nike Inc. (NYSE:NKE), Nike group is also the first large-scale retailer to disclose the information of supply chain.

Prior to this, most suppliers were using "privacy" as an excuse to refuse to disclose the above supply chain information. Gap Inc.

However, as time shifted, especially in Bangladesh in 2013, more than 1000 people died in serious accidents, retailers began to turn to disclose supplier information.

In the field of non clothing, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) Apple Corp began to disclose supply chain information gradually in 2006 because of being condemned in the harsh labor environment in the Chinese market.

In addition to the retailer's initiative to disclose, the United States also legislations for this purpose. In 2012, the Transparency in Supply Chains Act supply chain Transparency Act came into force in California, and similar legislation was introduced in Britain last year.

Japanese media pointed out that similar disclosure of supply chain information was slow in Japanese manufacturers.

Japan has the largest clothing group in Asia, Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. (9983.T) (6288.HK), XXX group, which has a well-known fast fashion brand Uniqlo UNIQLO. Human rights organizations have long accused the group of extremely poor factory conditions in China, Kampuchea and other Asian countries.

In early 2015, Hongkong NGO organization Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehavior (referred to as SACOM, Chinese Name: university student and teacher monitoring unscrupulous enterprise action) issued a report on the sweatshop of Uniqlo and UNIQLO in China.

The 33 page "Investigative Report on the Working Conditions in UNIQLO" s China Suppliers (UNIQLO China supply chain work environment survey report) is listed in the survey report. It lists four sins of China supply chain, including: long working hours, low basic wages, high-risk and unsafe working environment, management style, severe punishment, no trade union and workers representative organizations.

For SACOM's report, the Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. fast marketing group issued a statement in English, simplified and traditional Chinese, saying that it attached great importance to the above problems. However, according to the survey results, "I am very sorry to find that some of the problems in the report that the two factories involve overtime work are indeed facts."

Uniqlo

Workers have been very famous for their long time work.

The Japanese Publishing Group Bungeishunju Ltd. published the book "The Glory and Disgrace of the Uniqlo Empire" published in March 2010. It disclosed the immorality of the uniformed uniforms. For this reason, the Japanese company, the Japanese company, was also accused of the publisher.

In the group's supply chain report, Uniqlo, Q, UNIQLO also admitted that problems in China's supply chain began to increase over the past two years, including helping young people forge age and tampering with overtime records.