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TRASCE

Traceability Alliance for Sustainable Cosmetics

A consortium of 15 cosmetics industry companies have joined forces to create the Traceability Alliance for Sustainable Cosmetics (TRASCE) to enhance traceability in key ingredient and packaging supply chains across the industry.

TRASCE Founding Members

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Addressing Traceability at Scale

The cosmetics industry consists of numerous complex and multi-tiered supply chains. Gaining deeper knowledge of the sector’s supply chains has become essential to better understand and mitigate risks, enhance resiliency, and improve environmental and social sustainability.

Local and international regulations are becoming increasingly more stringent. In light of this, it has become essential to better understand the sector’s supply chains, mitigate the associated risks and support their transition towards a more sustainable and resilient model.

Responding to Fundamental Challenges

The TRASCE consortium was formed to address traceability at scale. The founding members have committed to working collectively to map their supply chains across the entire value chain on a common digital platform, Transparency-One, an ISN Company.

In the long-term the consortium aims to develop a collective approach to the risk analysis of social and environmental risks in supply chains, to interpret the data collected and define common progress plans.

Supply Chain Barrier

Strengthening Collective Understanding of the Cosmetics Industry Supply Chain

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Assessing Related Social and Environmental Risks

Actions to Support Suppliers with Transition

Transparency – One is your Reference Partner

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The essential and demanding work of mapping our supply chains carried out in recent years has allowed us to understand the main limits of the exercise. It is sometimes quite difficult for a single client to convince distant tier suppliers to commit to this process, when we do not exchange directly with them or when they do not meet the same regulatory requirements. Based on this observation, we proposed that the actors of the sector join forces to trace our supply chains as far and as quickly as possible.

Julien GarryInternational Director of Purchasing and Packaging Innovation Development at CHANEL Parfums Beaute
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Through shared digital tools and close collaboration, we have an opportunity to move the needle in transparency and elevate how we source responsibility, with attention to potential impacts on people and the environment.

Meghan RyanExecutive Director of Responsible Sourcing at the Estee Lauder Companies
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As a key supplier of cosmetic ingredients, we are delighted to be a founding member of the TRASCE consortium. This initiative is powerful thanks to the diversity of brands and suppliers it brings together; this joint commitment is a real asset. We are convinced of the need to align the industry on a single traceability tool, and to implement a common methodology. By doing so TRASCE could even act as a role model for other industries, which face the same challenges regarding supply chain transparency. The harmonization and multi-stakeholder dialogue is essential to promote the objectives within the TRASCE consortium as well as contributing to Merck’s overall sustainability strategy.

Karl HensenQuality Director Surface Solutions at Merck
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