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Worldly Named as a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Sustainable Procurement Applications
Worldly is included as a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Sustainable Procurement Applications.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2026 — Worldly, the leading sustainability and supply chain intelligence platform for the consumer goods industry, today announced it has been named as a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Sustainable Procurement Applications (Miguel Cossio, Marta Muñoz, Kevin Lawrence, 20 April 2026).
For procurement and sustainability leaders, the pressure to act has never been higher, and neither has the cost of acting on incomplete information. Tariffs, tightening budgets, and shifting regulatory requirements have raised the stakes on every sourcing decision. According to the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Sustainable Procurement Applications, “sustainability in procurement remains strategically important, with CPOs ranking it as one of the top five themes they expect to become urgent during the next six to 18 months.”¹
The distinction between real data versus models and estimates is central to how Worldly approaches the market. While many platforms rely on spend-based proxies or industry averages to approximate supply chain impact, Worldly is built on verified primary data collected directly from facilities. That means brands and retailers aren’t making critical sourcing, compliance, and decarbonization decisions based on approximations. They’re working from actual performance data at the facility and product level, which produces more accurate results, stronger regulatory defensibility, and greater confidence when reporting to investors, customers, and regulators.
The 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Sustainable Procurement Applications identifies four trends shaping the market this year. Our perception on how Worldly’s platform addresses each of these areas:
- Reducing supplier burden. With more than 45,000 factories across 97 countries already submitting standardized Higg Index assessments through the Worldly platform, brands can access primary supply chain data from day one, without creating redundant work for their suppliers. Last year alone, supply chain partners exchanged more than 100,000 verified assessments on Worldly.
- Product-level data granularity. Brands can measure Scope 3 emissions at the product level across 260+ consumer goods categories, connecting facility performance data, material LCAs, and product specifications to support both internal decisions and emerging regulatory requirements including the EU Digital Product Passport.
- Vendor scope expansion and repositioning. Worldly layers predictive climate and financial risk intelligence onto facility performance data, helping sustainability and sourcing teams identify where risks are concentrating and make the business case for intervention. Worldly’s integration of The BHive® brings verified chemical compliance data, including ZDHC conformance, into the same platform as environmental and social insights.
- Empowering lean buyer teams. With filterable analytics, automated supplier engagement campaigns, and AI-powered guidance tools, teams of two or three people can manage supplier programs across hundreds of facilities without proportionally expanding headcount.
“Sustainability data used to live in one team’s spreadsheet. What we’re seeing now is procurement, finance, legal, and sourcing all pulling from the same verified supply chain data to make decisions that actually move the business. That shift from sustainability as a reporting function to sustainability as a strategic input is what Worldly is built for. This recognition reflects where our customers are heading, and we’re committed to being the platform that gets them there.”
"Instead of duplicating efforts for every brand they work with, manufacturers can enter their data on Worldly once and seamlessly share it with multiple customers. This unified approach provides both brands and manufacturers with robust support at a fraction of the cost of managing multiple fragmented tools and metrics."
¹ 2026 Gartner Chief Procurement Officer Role Agenda Poll — Wave 1, cited in: Gartner, Market Guide for Sustainable Procurement Applications, Miguel Cossio, Marta Muñoz, Kevin Lawrence, 20 April 2026.
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Spend-based or estimated supply chain data uses industry averages and financial proxies to approximate what a supplier’s environmental or social performance probably looks like. Primary data, by contrast, is collected directly from the facility — real measurements, real assessments, submitted by the facility itself. Worldly is built on primary data from more than 45,000 facilities, which means brands aren’t making sourcing, compliance, or decarbonization decisions based on educated guesses. They’re working from what actually happened.
The Higg Index is a suite of standardized tools developed by Cascale (formerly the Sustainable Apparel Coalition) that measure the environmental and social performance of facilities and products across the consumer goods industry. Worldly is the leading sustainability and supply chain intelligence platform for the consumer goods industry. The company empowers brands, retailers, and manufacturers to turn verified primary data into insight and action across complex global supply chains. Worldly is built on industry-recognized standards, including the Higg Index. Meaning it has a data foundation from assessments submitted by 45,000+ factories through the Worldly platform that are standardized against recognized industry benchmarks, not proprietary or inconsistent internal metrics. This makes the data comparable across suppliers, defensible to regulators, and credible to investors.
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires companies to disclose verified environmental and social data across their value chains — including Scope 3 emissions, supplier labor conditions, and material impacts. The challenge for most brands is that this data either doesn’t exist or lives in disconnected spreadsheets. Worldly addresses this by providing verified primary data collected directly from 45,000+ facilities, covering carbon, water, chemicals, and labor at the facility and product level. Because the data is standardized against recognized benchmarks like the Higg Index, it holds up to the kind of third-party audit scrutiny CSRD demands — not just for one reporting cycle, but as an ongoing, defensible data infrastructure.
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