FindSouring.com - find your next sustainable footwear supplier the easy way!
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Find Sourcing AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 300 000 |
| Project duration | July 2020 - January 2021 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Innovative Startups |
| Call | Innovative Startups step 1 spring 2020 |
Important results from the project
FindSourcing has throughout the project created the foundation to be able to help footwear brands find suppliers matching their specific needs - trustworthy, professional, with the right price and at the same time socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. Brands can now specify expectations and demands, as well as getting in-depth insight into suppliers’ sustainability through their public profiles. We have also developed services to help footwear brands realize these new contacts - and through that drive their sustainability supply chain transformation.
Expected long term effects
Footwear brands can now, thanks to the newly developed services, take back control of their supply chain and get full transparency. In addition to transforming their footwear production to become more sustainable - which was quite difficult/impossible before - we can now help the brands making sustainability a strategic advantage. For example, FindSourcing have helped a pilot brand’s campaign in become the most sustainable footwear brand of South Korea. Several more brands are onboard, and we are now accelerating our work towards sustainably transforming the footwear industry!
Approach and implementation
Despite challenges the project has been completed with very good results! A big part of the success is the help and input from some of the leading profiles within sustainability in the industry, such as Nina Shariati, Katie Chappuis and Anna Rönngard, but also the customer driven process and very close collaboration with the market. The foundation is there, while at the same time there is a lot of work still to be done in acquiring enough data to give a full and complete sustainability analysis of a footwear brand’s supply chain - which we will start with as soon as this project is over!