During Q2 most factories made good progress on implementation, and several factories have now caught up, or are ahead of, their work-plans. During Q2’14 the program supplier group has stabilized. After 1 factory left the program, there are 54 suppliers in total, including the new ‘Fast Track’ factories. All suppliers are now implementing work-plans including the 7 Fast Track suppliers, who have already completed their Entry Point Assessments.

During Q2 most factories made good progress on implementation, and several factories have now caught up, or are ahead of, their work-plans. During Q2’14 the program supplier group has stabilized. After 1 factory left the program, there are 54 suppliers in total, including the new ‘Fast Track’ factories. All suppliers are now implementing work-plans including the 7 Fast Track suppliers, who have already completed their Entry Point Assessments.

Implementation focus

During Q2 IDH focused on following up on implementation timelines, to ensure all factories and brands made progress on completing the work-plans, and resolving any bottlenecks with the service providers or factory alignment. The results of this can been seen in the improved implementation completeness graphs, which show the progress made since the Q1 report.

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