VF Corporation does responsible supply chain management. As one of the pioneers of outsourced manufacturing, VF has policies designed to stamp out underage working, forced labor and similar abuses in supplier factories. VF takes a hands-on approach throughout the product cycle, from procuring the raw materials right through to providing customer service. Its effort at collecting data on key performance indicators is mostly geared toward internal improvements.

The corporation, based in the US, has two dozen or so major brands (including icons such as Wrangler, Lee, The North Face and Timberland), a 60,000-plus staff and nearly 1000 contract factories producing over 1.3 million items a day across almost 50 countries.

The sourcing program has four main focus areas: worker well-being, sustainable living environments, environmental sustainability and product stewardship. Environmental sustainability encompasses a wide range of activities to make supplier factories more water and energy efficient. Product stewardship is a program to promote safe chemistries as well as to trace raw materials such as cotton, leather and rubber back to their original source. The sustainable operations unit has 36 personnel in 13 countries. It advises factory owners in Bangladesh on a remediation plan.

The company has also launched a stand-alone website that details its supply-related policies and practices.