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Related Initiatives and Tools

This section highlights key initiatives, organizations, and tools that align with SC-DEX’s goals to improve open supply chain data and data exchange infrastructure. Some of these initiatives also maintain identifier systems (like OSIDs or Global Field IDs), while others focus on data collection, policy advocacy, or schema alignment. This is not a comprehensive list, but a living directory of efforts relevant to the SC-DEX ecosystem. For many of these efforts, members of the SC-DEX community are directly involved in different workstreams or considering the adoption of the technical standard.

Mapped Transparency Initiatives

These initiatives have overlapping goals with SC-DEX and have been often referenced in the development of the core schema. Some of these initiatives are maintained by members of the SC-DEX community.

Initiative Focus Area SC-DEX Relevance Read More
AgStack Open infrastructure for agriculture Supports open, reusable digital infrastructure aligned with SC-DEX’s mission to foster interoperability Link
CIRPASS2 EU Digital Product Passports SC-DEX is a participant in the expert working group for textile supply chains and ontologies Link
Clean Clothes Campaign Labor rights in the garment sector Informed SC-DEX development through #GoTransparent campaign standards Link
DIASCA Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains Initiative Agriculture and traceability standards Advocates for interoperable digital traceability to meet due diligence obligations Link
Fair Labor Accreditation Factory list transparency Requires brands to publicly disclose factory lists in machine-readable formats Link
Fashion Revolution Transparency Index Benchmarking brand transparency Measures public traceability and transparency scores, encouraging adoption of consistent disclosures Link
G7 ACT Circular fashion and textile data exchange Supports shared formats and global traceability dialogues Link
Global Data Partnership Against Forced Labor (WEF) Federated labor data sharing Multi-stakeholder initiative to align labor risk data and exchange standards Link
GODIN (Global Open Data Integration Network) LEI-based open data integration Promotes LEI adoption and data interoperability; SC-DEX uses LEI for org identifiers Link
Inclusive Labor Monitoring (Issara Institute) Worker-driven monitoring & case management Cloud-based monitoring and collaboration platform to support ethical recruitment and sourcing Link
ISEAL Certification Atlas Good practice in sustainability systems SC-DEX aligns with ISEAL’s Code of Good Practice in standard setting and transparency Link
Mapped in Bangladesh RMG factory mapping and social data Founding member organization; contributes verified facility and labor compliance data Link
Open Supply Hub Unique universal facility identifiers (OSID) Recommended SC-DEX location identifier standard Link
Spatial Finance Initiative ESG risk and geospatial finance GeoAsset project provides open asset-level datasets that align with SC-DEX’s spatial data needs Link
Supply Chain Taxonomy Textile supply chain structure (Textile Exchange + Apparel Alliance) Shared vocabulary for location types and process alignment Link
Tech Against Trafficking: Data Standardization Forced labor schema benchmark and gap analysis SC-DEX draws from their recommendations for streamlining and comparing forced labor disclosures Link
Textile Exchange Standards Sustainability certification and tools SC-DEX supports data integration with Textile Exchange’s traceability systems Link
The Transparency Pledge Company disclosure advocacy SC-DEX schema can help fulfill site and company disclosure commitments Link
UN Transparency Protocol (UNTP) UN digital standards for trade and production Contributor to Recommendation 49; aligned with guidance on digital traceability and identifier resolvers Link
Varda Global Field ID (GFID) Agricultural field boundary and ID standard SC-DEX uses GFID as the recommended location identifier for agricultural plots Link
WageIndicator Foundation Wage, labor metrics and civil society tools Provides wage data and indicators that could be linked via SC-DEX extensions Link
Wikirate Open company transparency and affiliations Founding member and key contributor to SC-DEX relationship types and org ID standards Link

Schema-Aligned Tools

These tools help organizations and technical teams implement SC-DEX or integrate with schema-aligned infrastructure. Some enable data formatting and validation, while others offer lookup services or APIs for identifiers.

Tool Description Link
CNPJ Lookup (Brazil) Retrieve tax identifiers and entity information for Brazilian companies Link
CSV to SC-DEX JSON Converter Convert spreadsheet-based data to SC-DEX-compliant JSON with no coding required Link
DUNS Number Lookup Retrieve DUNS numbers to identify companies globally Link
FDA FEI Lookup Search the FDA Facility Establishment Identifier registry Link
GFID Plot Lookup (Varda) Generate and retrieve Global Field IDs for agricultural plots via online mapping Link
LEI Lookup (GLEIF) Search the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) database for companies and organizations Link
Open Supply Hub Search Search for facility-level OSIDs for location identification Link
PermID Lookup Tool Open identifier search tool for companies and financial entities Link
UPRN Lookup Find Unique Property Reference Numbers used in the UK for buildings and land Link
USCC Lookup Registry search for Chinese Unified Social Credit Codes Link
UUID Generator Create unique universal identifiers that comply with SC-DEX's required formats Link
WikiRate Platform Search, compare, and analyze corporate responsibility data including affiliations Link

Contribute to This Page

If you know of a tool, dataset, or initiative that aligns with SC-DEX's mission but is missing from this list, we'd love to hear from you.

We'll review submissions on a rolling basis and include them in the next documentation update.