How Open Supply Hub and Worldly Give INTERSPORT Insight into Supply Chain Risks and Solutions

Article key points: 

• INTERSPORT strengthens global supply chain transparency across 42 countries by integrating Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) facility data with Worldly’s primary environmental impact data.
• The OS Hub–Worldly connection enables facility-level insight into emissions, water use, and biodiversity risks—helping INTERSPORT meet legal and reporting requirements.
• Standardized Open Supply Hub IDs (OS IDs) simplify supplier mapping and link factories worldwide to accurate, location-based data, eliminating manual reconciliation and data gaps.
• Data-driven sustainability actions help INTERSPORT prioritize supplier engagement and mitigate risks where environmental impact is highest, improving both compliance and resilience.
• Collaboration among INTERSPORT, Worldly, and Open Supply Hub demonstrates how open, interoperable data solutions drive measurable progress toward sustainable, low-impact global manufacturing and better business.

As one of the world’s largest sporting goods retailers, you can find one of INTERSPORT’s nearly-six-thousand stores in 42 countries across the globe. For companies like INTERSPORT, this large retail footprint can mean an equally large environmental footprint with complex supply chains spanning continents. 

As environmental regulations like the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) continue to emerge, along with reporting frameworks like Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), brands, retailers, and manufacturers are realizing that insight into their supply chains’ environmental and social practices isn’t just a nice-to-have: It’s vital for risk management and regulatory compliance. 

Fortunately, solutions exist to help companies like INTERSPORT measure environmental impact, assess risk, and come up with data-driven actions to address these issues within their supply chains. Keep reading to learn how INTERSPORT uses the powerful integration between Worldly and Open Supply Hub to do just that. 

Connecting the dots between suppliers, data, and nature

Understanding where the factories in your supply chain are located is one of the most important—and often most challenging—parts of mapping your brand’s environmental and business impact. Without a clear picture of where facilities operate, it’s nearly impossible to understand how local ecosystems, regulations, and infrastructure might influence (or be influenced by) production activities.

That’s where Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) comes in. OS Hub provides a public database of global manufacturing facility locations, which creates a standardized, reliable source of truth for companies managing large and complex supply chains.

By using OS Hub as the foundation for its facility location data, INTERSPORT can confidently connect supplier locations to the environmental and business insights it gets through Worldly, the leading sustainability and supply chain intelligence platform. Together, OS Hub and Worldly help INTERSPORT uncover which suppliers, down to the facility level, pose the greatest environmental risk—and take actions to mitigate those risks where it matters most. 

From raw data to real-world insight

Matching supplier information across different platforms and datasets has historically been a time-consuming process filled with mismatched data and manual corrections. But thanks to Open Supply Hub’s OS ID, it no longer has to be this way. The OS ID is a unique identifier for each facility that is free and accessible to anyone. Companies can use OS IDs to map every production facility to other data they collect, such as primary supply chain data through Worldly. 

With supplier location mapping standardized through OS Hub, INTERSPORT can bring the environmental data it collects with Worldly to life. Now, data on energy use, emissions, water consumption, and more accurately maps to each facility’s geographic location and illuminates actionable solutions to reduce supply chain risk and environmental impact. This enables INTERSPORT to gain a deeper understanding of how each facility impacts the local community and interacts with its surrounding environment, painting a clearer, more complete picture of environmental risk, and giving the retailer the ability to prioritize where engagement and improvement efforts will have the greatest impact.

Insights that lead to action 

Collecting data is the first step in managing supply chain risk and improving sustainability practices, but it isn’t enough on its own. By using both Worldly and OS Hub, INTERSPORT is equipped with data that truly leads to action, and it can take action more easily than ever before. 

With the OS Hub-Worldly integration, the company’s sustainability and ESG teams can identify suppliers that face higher environmental risks and start targeted, constructive conversations about reducing those risks in ways that are tailored to, and appropriate for, the facility’s location. The ability to hone in on environmental risk data at a facility-level helps INTERSPORT focus resources where they’ll have the most meaningful effect, which protects both business continuity and the ecosystems on which their operations depend.

Collaboration that drives progress

The partnership among INTERSPORT, Open Supply Hub, and Worldly demonstrates how collaboration can transform sustainability from a reporting requirement into a source of strategic value.

For INTERSPORT, having interoperable systems means less time managing spreadsheets and more time building resilient, responsible supply chains. For the broader industry, it’s a glimpse of what’s possible when transparency, accuracy, and action come together. With every new connection between data sources and every new conversation with a supplier, INTERSPORT is strengthening not just its own business, but the collective effort to understand and reduce the impact of global manufacturing on the natural world.

Integrate your supply chain and facility data with OSH and Worldly 

By connecting Open Supply Hub’s facility data with the primary environmental data it collects on the Worldly platform, INTERSPORT has created a scalable model for assessing and addressing its supply chain risk, based not on assumptions or estimates but on accurate data.

It’s a model that proves that when companies see clearly where their data comes from, how it fits together, and what it reveals about their impact, they can make better decisions for people, planet, and business.

Learn more about INTERSPORT’s success with its OS Hub-Worldly data integration in this Open Supply Hub case study, and contact Worldly to see how your business can benefit from primary supply chain data today.