Better Buying
Scaling impactful solutions for responsible purchasing practices. Utilizing key assets developed by the Better Buying Institute, Cascale’s acquisition of Better Buying tools and methodologies reflects our commitment to advancing responsible purchasing practices and promoting fair, accountable, and socially just supply chains.
Why Better Buying?
Justice is not up for debate. It’s time to move beyond fragmented efforts and drive collective action to support decent work for all. The Better Buying tools empower brands, retailers, and manufacturers to embed responsible purchasing practices into their operations, making fair business relationships the industry norm.
By integrating Better Buying’s proven tools into Cascale’s ecosystem, we move responsible purchasing practices from voluntary commitments to measurable, data-driven progress—ensuring that accountability and transparency become foundational to sustainable business relationships.
Fair Purchasing Practices
Unfair purchasing practices—such as last-minute order changes, delayed payments, and below-cost pricing—destabilize supply chains and harm both manufacturers and workers. The Better Buying tools and methodologies equip companies with supplier-driven insights to improve purchasing practices, supply chain resilience, and labor conditions. By supporting fairer, more transparent buyer-supplier relationships, Better Buying is helping to build a stronger, more responsible industry.
Better Buying Tools
An annual anonymous survey that collects business supplier data to present detailed analysis of brand and retailer purchasing practices and areas for improvement.
Ratings cycle opens on April 1st.
A short anonymous survey that enables year-round progress monitoring, as well as identification of problem areas and analysis of emerging trends.
Ratings cycle open October 1st – 31st 2025
Business Benefits for Subscribers
For improved pricing, fewer delays, and better on-time delivery
For more responsive and resilient supply chains and less disruption and fewer reputational risks
To demonstrate progress and impact
For fewer bottlenecks, reduced costs, better quality and environmental outcomes
For regulatory compliance, improved investor and public relations
Cascale’s global reach and resources provide a powerful platform to scale the impact of Better Buying tools, ensuring their reach extends further than before. By integrating these proven methodologies into Cascale, we can empower companies to strengthen supplier relationships, improve purchasing practices, and drive measurable progress in labor conditions and environmental performance. This transformative step paves the way for a future where buyers and suppliers collaborate more effectively to address shared challenges, from workers’ rights to sustainability, creating lasting systemic change.
The obvious win is that working with Better Buying provides a very clear indication to our global partners that we are truly focused on building long-term, sustainable relationships with them, and really want to steer away from business as usual transactional relationships. Our vendor base understands our commitment and that results in them working much more closely with us than if we were purely transactional in approach.
Through our partnership with Better Buying … we annually assess the impact of our purchasing practices on supplier sustainability through a financial, environmental and social lens. We leverage this assessment to better understand how our day-to-day purchasing practices are affecting our suppliers, their workers and the environment.
Better Buying Interest Form
Want to learn more? Complete the form to find out how a Better Buying subscription can help your organization drive progress in responsible purchasing practices.
Further Resources on Better Buying
Learn about the methodology behind the Better Buying Purchasing Practices Index (BBPPI) and the Better Buying Partnership Index (BBPI).
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.
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.
