The Open Apparel Registry (OAR) is an open source 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?

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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.

75,049

Apparel facilities are currently listed on the OAR

372

Contributors have added data to the OAR

127

Countries have facility data in the OAR

Featured Case Studies

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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: Higg

“By using the Open Apparel Registry as the central source of truth for facility location data, we can match our facilities easily and quickly with any external dataset and return OAR IDs to users.”

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Civil Society Case Study: WWF

“Having an open, accessible map of global apparel facilities enables us to quickly see and identify distribution issues and potential negative biodiversity or water impacts.”

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Featured Resources

Publication / Insight

New Data Points in the Open Apparel Registry: Public Comment Period

In February 2022, the Open Apparel Registry will begin accepting a new set of facility data points. The data points and related designs are open for public comment until December 21, 2021.

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Webinar: (re)Introducing the OAR

Watch for an overview of why the OAR exists, how to contribute to and use the tool, and stories of organizations and people around the world who have benefited from the OAR.

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Guide

How to contribute data to the OAR

Ready to upload your facility/supplier data to the OAR? Here's how.

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