SEDEX Benefits for retailers and their suppliers: • Enabled collaboration; • Improved supplier relationships and supplier chain management; • Protected and enhanced reputation and reduced reputational risk; • Improved competitive position for suppliers; • Demonstrated commitment by all parties to improve ethical performance; • Retailer confidence in their supplier's implementation of ethical work practices; • Transparency and trust through independently verified compliance (through SMETA audits); • Reduced duplicate auditing and multiplied information channels (through SMETA audits);