Wal Mart Requires Garment And Home Textile Suppliers To Complete A Higgfem By 2022

At the end of June this year, Wal Mart sent an e-mail notice, clearly requiring suppliers of clothing and home textiles to complete a higg FEM verification before 2022, that is, a requirement of verification once every two years. It also said that since 2022, it will only cooperate with garment and home textile suppliers who have chosen to use higg FEM self-assessment and verification tools.

Let's break down the above requirements, that is, Wal Mart's clothing and home textile suppliers have two optional verification schedules before 2022:

The validation of fem2 will be completed by December 31, 2020. It should be explained here that the self-assessment of fem2019 needs to be completed and submitted before August 14, 2020, and the verification module vfem of fem2019 needs to be purchased before October 31, 2020.

The validation of fem20202 is completed by December 31, 2020. The specific fem2020 self-assessment submission time node and purchase verification module time node need to wait until the end of 2020.

Whether Wal Mart suppliers choose to complete the verification this year or next year, they need to complete and submit self-assessment every year.

Although affected by the epidemic this year, more and more brands and retailers began to ask their footwear suppliers to conduct higg FEM self-evaluation and verification in the process of resuming economic production. For Wal Mart, little known is that it and Patagonia are the start-up members of sac (the parent company of higg FEM), so logically, Wal Mart will attach great importance to the higg FEM project.

Based on this, it is particularly important for the majority of footwear suppliers to respond to the requirements of higg FEM project of brands and retailers.