Our Solutions
Want to understand which supplier produces the fewest emissions? Need to find a fiber that consumes less water? Want to quantify the cradle-to-grave impact of a new product? Higg tools and services deliver the credible data you need to make more sustainable decisions.
Higg helps you take responsibility for your entire impact: from materials to products, from factories to stores, across energy, waste, water, and working conditions.
Measure
Brands and manufacturers rely on Higg to make millions of more sustainable decisions every day: from designing better products, to reducing impact in their supply chains.
Our measurement tools incorporate methodologies from the Higg Index, the leading value chain measurement methodology developed by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. This suite of tools is widely used and trusted across industries to assess the impact of products and value chains.
Across environmental and social impacts, the facility assessment tools enable consistent primary data gathering across your entire manufacturing base – and it’s easy to request existing assessment data from facilities that are already Higg users. Similarly, the brand and retail tool enables data gathering within company operations such as transportation, offices, and retail centers.
For designers, product developers, and analysts, Higg Product Tools measure environmental impact across the full lifecycle of a product – from materials all the way to product end-of-life, including packaging, logistics, product durability, and care. In particular, the Higg MSI provides a dataset of materials impacts, which helps product designers to understand the costs, benefits, and tradeoffs of different materials (for instance, comparing a recycled fiber to its conventional counterpart).
Features include:
- Assess carbon emissions, water use, energy sources, and more at facilities
- Measure social impacts of manufacturing, such as wages, working hours, and safety
- Estimate the total impact of a particular product
- Compare the environmental impact of different materials during design
- Measure impact of corporate operations, including packaging, transportation, and retail
Manage
Higg’s data management tools organize your performance and impact data, to help develop actionable insights about your value chain.
With access to the Higg analytics tool, you can surface insights quickly about supplier performance in GHG emissions, water use, management approaches, and more. Drill down to identify areas of risk and opportunity by filtering the dashboard by country, tier, and custom tags. Performance data can uncover facilities operating without a chemical license, using the most water, or emitting the most carbon, for example.
And use our benchmarking feature to compare your manufacturing partners’ assessments with other similar factories in the industry.
Additionally, our data management tools allow you to track assessment completion by factory partners. Use automated communications and reminder messages to encourage completion of mandatory assessments, in order to gather the most accurate possible view of your impact.
Features include:
- Visualize supplier performance
- Surface insights and hotspots
- Compare your facilities to benchmarks
- Download raw data for additional analysis
- Monitor and encourage assessment completion
Share
Higg’s transparency and reporting capabilities provide seamless ways to communicate your sustainability performance to partners, stakeholders, and customers.
With Sustainability Profiles, your business can generate data-backed product-level environmental claims assessed according to the Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s materials assessment methodology. Part of a pilot program to develop consistent scorecards for impact, Sustainability Profiles offer customers unprecedented visibility into a product’s impact on water, greenhouse gas emissions, and use of fossil fuels.
Similarly, our facility performance communication tools enable manufacturers to share verified data on their environmental performance. And our analytics tools allow for saving, sharing, and exporting of data and visualizations, for easy integration into your presentations, reports, and third-party software.
Features include:
- Generate data-backed product-level sustainability claims
- Get credit for sustainable investments with verified reports and scorecards
Services
Our client success team is here to aid your organization’s use of Higg.
Services include assistance with email communications to factory partners, email list setup and management, and tracking the completion of partner assessments.
Please get in touch to learn more or to ask about custom services.
