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inside the loop

Digitizing Interloop’s Supply Chain

Interloop is a future focused apparel manufacturing company
progressing towards achieving Industry 4.0, with a roadmap
encompassing speed, efficiency, flexibility, quality and security.
Like many other large scale manufacturers, Interloop has a
widespread network of factories producing quality products
while continuously improving the production practices. When
the pandemic struck in 2020, Interloop quickly discovered the
requirement for enhanced implementation and oversight of
standard operating procedures by digitizing its supply chain.
Interloop collaborated with Inspectorio and commissioned
RISE; an award-winning factory compliance monitoring

processes became trivial, including expensive in-person
audits being largely replaced by factory self-assessments.
Since the commencement of this program, Interloop has
undergone three months of self-assessment cycles across all
its manufacturing plants.

The benefits of self-assessments extend beyond saving time.
Interloop was able to promote active collaboration between
brands and retailers, vendors, and factories across the
spectrum of facility-level audits. Audit fatigue, which remains
a leading problem within the compliance industry, stems from
vendors having to perform repetitive audits for different
clients, all for the same results. Shifting to this software
platform, enabling Interloop to maintain hi-res visibility over its allowed Interloop to leverage verified data from their facilities
supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic, and transform to avoid this expensive and time-consuming process, all while
the business practices in its Environment, Health, and Safety improving the actionability of the data collected.
(EHS) initiatives.
At Interloop, these self-assessments have generated reports
RISE is a valuable platform being used by our EHS teams that have helped ensure that the safety guidelines are being
across our manufacturing facilities, allowing them to evaluate followed 100% across its ecosystem. The pandemic also
and assess the implementation and results of the standard proved this platform’s ability to facilitate guideline
operating procedures. This novel capability quickly allowed implementation through groundbreaking visibility and
the company to protect its workers and supply chain partners transparency. For Interloop, this has meant ensuring safe
from contamination during the COVID-19 pandemic. By working conditions at all its facilities by prevention and control
standardizing the evaluation process across all manufacturing during the pandemic, and the ability to upload protocols and
facilities, RISE ensured that the safety precautions are in have them followed and implemented across all our plants, ref: https://supplychain.inspectorio.com/blog/2021/01/04/garment-maker-interloop-revamps-ehs-initiatives-with-inspectorio-rise/
place at all plants/facilities across our supply chain, with by monitoring the procedures and activities, and consequently,
greater focus on reducing, reporting, and addressing any taking corrective actions for continuous improvement in
divergence. real-time. As Interloop continues to grow on the other side of
the pandemic, swift and transparent guideline implementation
With health and safety regulations in place and with real-time will be crucial for remaining agile and resilient against future
visibility over continued compliance, the other benefits of this disruptions.
platform came into play. Formerly, time-consuming manual

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