Fortune

500 Company. Brands include Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime, Athleta.
Gap Inc. Net Sales in 2015 $15.8B. Employees 141K

Analyze the feasibility of recycled cotton by focusing on the availability of pre-consumer offcut material from
Project Scope manufacturing facilities in the supply chain. Position Gap for the future integration for recycled cotton into
their supply chain.

Methodology Observations

Phase 1 Phase 2 Results

Scoping & Literature Review Feasibility Study
Competitor Positioning
Analyze 3-5 Large Companies in Quantify Approximate Supply of Established
Recycled Cotton Offcuts Viable Process
Retailers
Recyclers Identify Potential Manufacturing Scalability
Process Interventions Insufficient offcut supply
Analyze Recycled Cotton Processes Post Consumer Required
Mechanical Complete Relevant Cost Analysis
Chemical Willingness to Pay
Consumer Potential & Willingness to No price premium at
Pay competitors

Current Supply Chain

No Direct Impact from Recycled Cotton on Offcuts
Recycled Cotton Re-Enters Gap Owns Product
Process Collected

Cotton Gap
Cut/Sew Gap Retail
Grown and Spinner Fabric Mill Distribution
Vendor Store
Harvested Center

Risk Revenue Cost

Recycled Offcut Process
Willingness to pay of
Lack of visibility into Cost of collecting
consumers for
supply chain offcuts
recycled products
Variable supply of Access to a new Additional cost of
offcuts customer base recycling process
Spillover effects into
Environmental
other product lines Increased labor costs
impacts of products
of Gap Inc.

Decision Tree Recommendations

Strengthen Vendor Relationships
Cut/Sew, Mill, & Recyclers

Consult with NGO Groups

Cradle to Cradle
Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Study Feasibility of Post Consumer Collection

Reverse Supply Chain Logistics
Supply Estimates for post consumer products

Implementation plan
Pilot project on a small scale
Start of by working with 1 or 2 long term
cut/sew vendors and fabric mil vendors