Texbase introduces compliance solution for apparel sector

TEXbase GuardianSM is a suite of compliance solutions on a single platform addressing product regulatory, safety and corporate social responsibility requirements. Regardless of size or complexity, brands, retailers and consumer product companies can subscribe to TEXbase Guardian to assure transparency and traceability across their global supply chain.

Designed for ultimate flexibility, the system can be utilized for a single requirement or as a comprehensive solution for all compliance requirements. Intelligent and flexible, the system enables standardization, accessibility and visibility across a brand’s global user base.

Each solution is enabled with unlimited connectivity across the TEXbase real-time collaboration network to securely facilitate brand, vendor and lab communications, testing against specifications and certifications.

Solutions and features include:

CPSIA GuardianSM

CPSIA Guardian is a solution for managing product specifications, testing plans and results required by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. Specifications, policies and testing protocols can be customized and replicated to ensure consistency and management of lab costs.

Requirements are securely shared by brands with vendors and testing labs using the TEXbase real-time collaboration network. Certificate creation is a point-and-click process automatically generated from the system.

RSL GuardianSM

RSL Guardian is a managed service with current and continually-updated RSL libraries containing lists from industry associations, states and other sources. RSL Guardian allows clients to customize libraries, create specifications and consistently test and/or certify components or products against RSL requirements, wherever they choose, throughout their supply, production and distribution chains. Flexible pick-and-choose specifications or certifications are securely shared by brands with vendors and labs using the TEXbase real-time collaboration network.

Conflict Minerals GuardianSM

Conflict Minerals Guardian is solution for managing the range of requirements associated with Dodd-Frank section 1502. Passed in July 2010 with final rulemaking in August 2012, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires public companies listed in the U.S. to disclose whether tantalum, tin, tungsten and/or gold mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo or an adjoining country are necessary to the functionality or product they manufacture or contract to manufacture.

CSR GuardianSM

CSR Guardian allows brands and retailers to track and measure their Corporate Social Responsibility program comprehensively. CSR Guardian allows clients to use a proprietary index, environmental policy tools or industry developed indexes, like the HIGG Index, to measure performance of their CSR program.

Conflict Mineral Guardian and CSR Guardian are new solutions also being announced.