ESG-compliant in 100 days — how a Bangladesh garment maker secured EU contracts worth $18M.

In early 2025, three of DAC's largest European buyers issued the same letter: starting in 2026, every purchase order would require CSRD-aligned sustainability reporting and a Digital Product Passport for every garment. No report, no order.

DAC had sustainability commitments, but they lived in sustainability reports — not in the data spine. They could tell you their annual water use. They couldn't tell you the water footprint of a single red polo shirt for H&M.

We deployed TextileERP's ESG + Supply Chain Traceability modules in a 100-day sprint. Every fiber shipment, every dye batch, every meter of fabric, every garment — stamped with energy, water, and chemical metadata at the moment of transaction.

Crucially, we onboarded their upstream suppliers too. 4,200 of them got a light-weight supplier portal to upload their own ESG data. Within 90 days, DAC had the data their buyers were asking for — and the buyers started noticing.

Competitors scrambling with manual CSRD prep lost bids. DAC won them. $18M of new EU contracts landed in the first quarter after go-live — specifically citing CSRD-readiness as a deciding factor.

The sustainability data unlocked real operational improvements too. Once every garment had a water and energy footprint, the team optimized naturally. Water use dropped 34%. Energy dropped 27%. The ESG report wrote itself.