The Open Apparel Registry (OAR) is a free, open data tool mapping garment facilities worldwide and allocating a unique ID to each.

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How It Works

Looking to contribute data to the OAR?

Here's how

The Open Apparel Registry opens up supply chain data for the benefit of all. It transforms messy, inconsistent data into structured datasets, made freely available to all stakeholders under an open data license. Access to cleaner, structured and open data enables interoperability across systems and more efficient and effective collaboration at the facility level.

Who is the OAR for?

Brands

Access high quality data about the global apparel supply chain, quickly identify opportunities for collaboration and demonstrate commitment to transparency by publishing your supplier list on the OAR.

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Facilities

Submit and claim your facility to add additional data points and grow visibility with potential clients. Use your OAR ID to ensure customers and service providers know which facility is yours.

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Civil Society

Use the OAR to quickly understand which organizations are connected to which facilities, identify potential regional or facility-level partnerships, run trend analysis and more.

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Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives

Make use of the OAR's deduplication algorithm, improve data quality for your members, run queries and match facilities in your database, and enable interoperability between systems.

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Third Party Services

Incorporate OAR IDs into your platform as a "decoder" ID, or even adopt the OAR ID for your own internal schema. Connect to the OAR's API to establish a programmatic connection between datasets.

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Researchers

Search and download data from the OAR to inform social and environmental research related to apparel supply chains and the organizations within them.

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The OAR in Numbers

Facility data is contributed and updated in the OAR every day from around the world.

87,865

Apparel facilities are currently listed on the OAR

464

Contributors have added data to the OAR

132

Countries have facility data in the OAR

Featured Case Studies

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Civil Society Case Study: Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business

"Whenever problems in an industrial zone or a factory are mentioned in social media, we can turn to the OAR to find out which brands’ suppliers might be affected."

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Brand Case Study: Kathmandu

“The OAR provides the perfect vehicle for collaboration between brands, and eliminates previous confusion relating to facility names and addresses.”

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MSI Case Study: Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textiles

“The AGT chose to upload to the OAR in order to make its data more widely available to trade unions and NGOs..."

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Featured Resources

Guide

Contribute and search by five new data points on the OAR

Read more about each data point and how they’ll be contributed, processed and displayed.

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Video

Webinar Recording: Contributing to and searching the OAR

Watch the recording of this live demo of the Open Apparel Registry, including a walk-through of how to contribute and search the five new data points available in the database beginning in March 2022.

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Publication / Insight

Enhancing Interoperability: Data Collaboration Between Higg + OAR

Through industry-adopted methods — the OAR’s facility IDs and Higg’s standardized framework for measuring impact — we are uniformly accelerating value chain transparency and environmental and social…

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