What this document is
Levi Strauss & Co. publishes a running list of the factories that make its clothing, covering what the company calls Tier 1 suppliers, the finishing factories, and Tier 2 suppliers further up the chain such as fabric mills. Rather than a static PDF, the list is delivered as an interactive supplier map giving facility names, locations and addresses, and the company says it updates the factory entries quarterly and the mill entries twice a year to keep pace with changes in its sourcing.
The map is built through a partnership with the Open Apparel Registry, a nonprofit that assigns each garment factory a unique identifier so the same facility can be tracked consistently across different brands' supply-chain disclosures, a real problem in an industry where one factory often produces for several companies under slightly different listed names.
Levi Strauss pairs the map with a Supplier Code of Conduct and a Supplier Sustainability Guidebook, the latter last substantially updated in 2020 to add guidance on pandemic safety, gender equity and worker protections across its source base.
Where to find it
Available from Levi Strauss & Co..