Supplier quality management with rework execution

Supplier quality management built for apparel rework, footwear, and ESPR documentation.

Coordinate every rework batch across your external workshops in one platform. Real-time visibility, vendor scorecards, and an audit trail for ESPR Article 24 already built in.

Live in one weekESPR-ready from day one
Flexireo supplier quality management platform dashboard

The seven-stage rework lifecycle, in one platform

Rework is not a single workflow; it is a sequence of decisions, handoffs, and confirmations that today live across phone calls, WhatsApp groups, spreadsheets, and shared drives. Flexireo coordinates the entire lifecycle, from a blocked SKU sitting in a distribution hub to a documented disposition ready for an ESPR auditor. Every stage produces the structured data the next stage needs, and every step strengthens the audit trail your sustainability lead will eventually have to defend.

  1. Triage and recoverability scoring

    Score every blocked batch on economic, technical, time-to-resale, and regulatory factors. The decision (rework, split routing, donation, recycling, or scrap) opens an audit-trail entry that follows the batch all the way into Article 24 disclosure.

  2. Sourcing rework partners

    Match the job to the external workshops that have the right capacity, capability, and historical scorecard. Bring new rework partners onto the platform with role-based access in minutes, not weeks.

  3. RFQ and bid comparison

    Send a structured RFQ to multiple workshops simultaneously. Compare bids side by side on price, capacity, lead time, and historical performance, to chose the perfect partner for the project.

  4. Workshop selection and award

    Award the batch to one or more rework partners. The platform triggers onboarding, document sharing, and a chain-of-custody log automatically.

  5. Execution tracking with photo evidence

    Watch every unit move through every step. Workshops upload photo evidence, log status changes from a mobile device, and confirm intake quantities against the original SKU list in real time.

  6. ESPR-ready documentation generation

    The data produced during execution maps directly to the five Article 24 disclosure fields from Annex I of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2. No second system, no end-of-year scramble, no spreadsheet reconciliation.

  7. Post-job re-evaluation feeding the scorecard

    Every completed batch updates the workshop scorecard on on-time rate, defect rate, re-rework rate, and responsiveness. Your next sourcing decision is informed by data, not by which workshop you remember liking.

Co-developed with one of Europe's largest sporting goods brands

Flexireo was built inside a live rework operation, not at a whiteboard. Two years of iteration with a multinational sporting goods company, across multiple external workshops in several countries, shaped every workflow on the platform.

50,000+
products processed through the platform
2 years
of co-development with a major European brand
1 week
from signed contract to live deployment
Multi-country
rework partner networks coordinated
Real-time rework partner visibility dashboard

1. From blind operations to real-time visibility

The dominant emotion for quality managers running rework is a persistent, low-grade anxiety: the fear that something has already gone wrong in a partner workshop and you just do not know about it yet.

Flexireo eliminates that feeling. Every unit, every rework partner, every status change becomes visible in real time. Delays trigger alerts before they trigger crises. Your team goes from hours of daily status calls to checking a dashboard over coffee, and the weekly leadership update writes itself from the same data.

Single source of truth for every rework stakeholder

2. All rework partners on a single source of truth

Scattered communication across phone calls, emails, spreadsheets, and shared drives is exactly where apparel and footwear products get lost and deadlines get missed.

Flexireo centralizes every project: unit-level tracking, document sharing, structured chat, and role-based access. Customers, intermediaries, and workshops all work from the same record, with permissions matched to each stakeholder's function. The supplier quality management workflow that used to live in twelve threads now lives in one place, with an audit-ready history attached.

AI-generated daily rework briefing

3. AI briefings that tell you exactly where to look

Instead of opening ten dashboards every morning, Flexireo reviews your entire rework operation overnight and emails one summary before you reach the office. It tells you what is on track, flags the projects that need your attention, and highlights where action is required.

Your Monday inbox becomes a single actionable briefing instead of fourteen emails you have to piece together yourself. The supplier quality management hours your team gets back compound week after week.

ESPR Article 24 audit trail generated from rework operations

4. ESPR documentation, generated as you operate

Starting 19 July 2026, EU law prohibits large apparel and footwear companies from destroying unsold textiles, requires Article 24 disclosure for every disposition, and applies a ten percent verification threshold against waste-treatment operator records.

Flexireo's unit-level tracking, time-stamped status changes, and disposition reporting produce the audit trail the regulation demands. Compliance documentation becomes a byproduct of running rework operations, not a separate reporting project layered on top.

Why apparel quality teams pick Flexireo over the alternatives

Most apparel and footwear brands managing rework today fall into one of three operating models: a tangle of spreadsheets and email, a generic enterprise QMS originally built for regulated manufacturing, or a focused rework coordination platform. Each model has trade-offs, and Flexireo is honest about where the others win. The table below maps how each model handles the five operational questions that matter most to a quality director coordinating rework across external workshops.

QuestionSpreadsheets and emailGeneric enterprise QMSFlexireo
Time to deployAlready in place6 to 12 months1 week
ESPR Article 24 documentationManual, end-of-year scrambleAdd-on module, not apparel-tunedGenerated as you operate
Rework partner coordinationPhone, WhatsApp, email threadsInternal-user focused; external workshop UX is an afterthoughtMobile-first, role-based for every external workshop
Unit-level traceability for textilesBatch-level at bestOptimized for serialized industrial parts, not soft goodsUnit-level for apparel and footwear from day one
Pricing transparencyFree, expensive in hidden laborQuote on request; six-figure starting points commonPublished: 4.5% of rework value, €2,500 monthly minimum

ESPR Article 24 takes effect 19 July 2026. Here is what your audit trail must show.

Article 24 of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation requires large apparel and footwear companies placing products on the EU market to disclose information on every unsold consumer product discarded as waste. The destruction ban under Article 25 takes effect for large enterprises on 19 July 2026 and for medium enterprises on 19 July 2030.

Flexireo produces the five disclosure fields from Annex I of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2 as a byproduct of your daily rework operations, not as a separate reporting exercise.

1. Entity identification

Your company identifier and EUID, populated once in Flexireo and reused on every disposition record the platform generates.

2. Product information by CN code

Unit-level tracking with quantities, weight, and CN code mapping, captured at the moment goods enter your rework workflow.

3. Reasons for discarding

Structured triage outcomes with the relevant derogation from Delegated Regulation C(2026) 659 attached to each unit, ready for inspection.

4. Waste-treatment operations breakdown

Preparation for reuse, recycling, other recovery, disposal, and unknown; each with operator confirmation, time stamp, and supporting evidence.

5. Preventive measures

Workshop scorecards, root-cause logs, and corrective actions taken and planned, exported in the structure the regulation expects.

Frequently asked questions

See your rework operation on one screen. In a week.

Book a 30-minute demo, where we will walk through your current rework workflow, map it to the seven-stage lifecycle, and show you exactly how the audit trail your sustainability lead needs would look on real data. If a pilot makes sense, your first project is €1,250 flat with a money-back guarantee.