Everything your facility needs to know to successfully start and complete its assessment on the Worldly platform:
Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM)
Facility Data Manager (FDM)
Foundational Environmental Performance Module (FEP Module).
Last year, more than 45,000 facilities across 97 countries used Worldly to simplify fragmented, duplicate reporting with a single performance record. Together, they shared assessments with partners over 100,000 times.
This year, everything you need to report on your facility’s environmental performance is part of the Environmental Assessments subscription, which includes the Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM), Facility Data Manager (FDM), and the Foundational Environmental Performance Module (FEP Module).
Check with your sourcing or brand partner to see which assessments they require.
If you’re ready to start your assessment, log in or create your account here.
The industry’s standard tool for measuring a facility’s environmental impact across energy, water, waste, and chemicals, and more.
Complete it once a year and your data is ready to share with every brand that asks in a format they already accept.
✅ Quantitative data
✅ Aspirational questions
✅ Benchmarking
✅ Scope 3 inputs
✅ FEP result (auto)
By reporting on energy use, GHG emissions, water consumption, waste generation, and production volume monthly or quarterly, your facility can track its progress against reduction targets throughout the year.
For those also completing the Higg FEM: At year end, your FDM data rolls directly into a full Higg FEM — no re-entry required.
✅ Monthly quantitative data
✅ Shared target tracking
✅ FEM rollup at year end
❌ No FEP result
❌ No aspirational questions
The FEP Module is the foundational layer of the Higg FEM. It contains around one tenth of the Higg FEM questions that the industry agreed are the essentials of responsible operation. It takes less time to complete and does not require expertise.
You can complete the full Higg FEM or the FEP Module only, depending on your reporting requirements. Either way, you will receive an FEP result that you can share with every brand partner.
✅ FEP result: Achieved or Not Achieved
✅ Question-level gap view
✅ Shareable with all brands
✅ Verifiable, just like Higg FEM
❌ No quantitative data
❗Only for facilities that did not complete Higg FEM 2025
These resources provide helpful guidance for those that want to get started with Environmental Assessments.
Worldly platform users also have access to the Worldly Assistant from within their assessment. It provides expert AI education and guidance on demand, in any language, using Worldly, Higg, Cascale, and ZDHC guidance.
Worldly provides suppliers with training programs, more than 60 e-learning courses, forums and live office hours, and approved third-party training partners in 30+ countries.
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This page in our Support center is entirely dedicated to Facility Data Manager (FDM):
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A focused session with Worldly platform experts, ideal for facility users who are new to the Higg FEM, as well as returning users who want to get ready for the 2026 assessment.
We’re hosting a session on Nov 11 (APAC) and Nov 12 (EMEA). Choose the one that best fits your schedule.
Our team organizes live webinars and Q&A sessions throughout the year, in multiple languages.
They cover topics on how to prepare for the Higg FEM, how to complete specific sections, and more.
Check out the training schedule >
Worldly supports facility improvement by turning assessment data into actionable benchmarks — showing how a facility’s energy use, water consumption, waste, and social practices compare to peers, and where the most impactful improvements can be made. Approximately 92% of facilities on Worldly actively track energy use, and around 67% have set targets to reduce it, reflecting a progression from measurement to action that the platform is designed to support. Related resources including customer stories such as Prosperity Textiles’ 17% water savings demonstrate what consistent use of Worldly data makes possible.
Beyond satisfying brand data requests, completing assessments through Worldly gives facilities a clear picture of their own environmental and social performance — identifying where they are strong, where gaps exist, and how they compare to peer facilities in the same region, sector, and size category. This benchmarking insight helps facilities prioritize where to invest, have more informed conversations with brand partners, and build a performance record that strengthens their competitive position across their entire customer base. Approximately 67% of facilities on Worldly have set targets to improve energy use, moving from data collection into active improvement.
Worldly enables manufacturing facilities to complete one standardized environmental and social assessment and share it with every brand customer that requests it — replacing the cycle of separate questionnaires that each brand sends on its own timeline and in its own format. Over 45,000 facilities across 97 countries use Worldly as their single platform for collecting, managing, and sharing sustainability performance data with multiple brand partners simultaneously.
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