Better Buying’s Methodology
Learn about the methodology behind the Better Buying Purchasing Practices Index (BBPPI) and the Better Buying Partnership Index (BBPI).
Support Decent Work for All
Cascale scales collective action to champion workers’ rights, ensure fair purchasing practices, and streamline audits to foster safe, equitable workplaces.
Support Decent Work for All
Cascale scales collective action to champion workers’ rights, ensure fair purchasing practices, and streamline audits to foster safe, equitable workplaces. We address systemic labor challenges to drive safe and dignified working conditions throughout global supply chains, guided by the principle that businesses should not just aim for compliance but for systematic change.
Higg Facility Social & Labor Module
Built on the Converged Assessment Framework of the Social & Labor Convergence Program (SLCP), the Higg Facility Social & Labor Module (Higg FSLM) is used to assess and improve the working conditions of those who produce consumer goods. The Higg FSLM tracks management systems, operational controls, oversight, and worker and stakeholder engagement through a universal scoring system designed to drive improved social performance in manufacturing facilities worldwide.
Better Buying
In 2025, Cascale purchased key assets of Better Buying Institute (BBI) in order to more effectively amplify supplier voices, promote industry accountability, and foster more resilient global supply chains. These tools and methodologies include the widely recognized Better Buying Purchasing Practices Index (BBPPI) and the Better Buying Partnership Index (BBPI).
The purchase of key BBI assets strengthens Cascale’s ability to address critical supply chain challenges such as unfair purchasing practices – behaviors like last-minute order changes, delayed payments, and below-cost pricing – that harm manufacturers and workers while destabilizing supply chains.
By integrating BBI’s tools and methodologies, Cascale is more equipped to promote the adoption of fair purchasing practices with brands and manufacturers, empowering facilities to plan effectively, improve labor conditions, and ensure fair wages.
Explore Better Buying Tools
Better Buying Partnership Index
The Better Buying Partnership Index (BBPI) is a short, anonymous, subjective survey of the quality of buyer-supplier partnerships, consisting of 12 subjective questions, which opens for supplier ratings on October 1 2025.
Better Buying Purchasing Practices Index
The Better Buying Purchasing Practices Index is a detailed deep dive into a buyer company’s Tier 1 purchasing practices which opens for supplier ratings on April 1 2025.