Ever wonder: “Where do things come from?”
Us too.
Open Supply Hub is powering the transition to safe and sustainable supply chains by building the world’s most complete, open and accessible map of global production. Here’s what our team is learning, trying and thinking about along the way.
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Click to read more…: Spotlight Gets Wider: Welcoming Our Next Wave of Data Partners
Spotlight Gets Wider: Welcoming Our Next Wave of Data Partners
Five months ago, Open Supply Hub launched OS Hub Spotlight with ten founding partners and one goal: connect our open map of production locations to the environmental, social, and assessment…
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Click to read more…: Where Brands and Trade Unions Meet: Shared Priorities for Better Labor Data in Fashion Supply Chains
Where Brands and Trade Unions Meet: Shared Priorities for Better Labor Data in Fashion Supply Chains
Conversations about labor data in fashion supply chains often begin with the assumption that brands and trade unions always want very different things. Brands generally approach labor data through the…
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Click to read more…: When transparency requires trust: lessons from working with trade unions on sharing supply chain data
When transparency requires trust: lessons from working with trade unions on sharing supply chain data
Supply chain transparency has a data accessibility problem, but this is not only a technical one. Platforms like Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) can only be as useful as the…
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Click to read more…: Free Tools for Corporate Accountability: A New Community Resource Bank of 39 Vetted Tools
Free Tools for Corporate Accountability: A New Community Resource Bank of 39 Vetted Tools
A free, community-vetted resource bank of 39 tools for corporate accountability, organized into 11 categories — supply chain mapping, due diligence, chemical safety, wages, climate data, corporate ownership, and benchmarks.…
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Click to read more…: Mapping Supply Chain Locations Affected by the Earthquakes in Venezuela
Mapping Supply Chain Locations Affected by the Earthquakes in Venezuela
On June 24, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck western Venezuela, followed just 39 seconds later by an even more powerful magnitude 7.5 quake, the strongest to hit the country in…
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Click to read more…: The map was just the beginning: OS Hub Spotlight and the next evolution in supply chain data
The map was just the beginning: OS Hub Spotlight and the next evolution in supply chain data
Seven years ago, a small group of organizations started contributing production location data to a shared, open platform called the Open Apparel Registry. That platform evolved into Open Supply Hub…
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Click to read more…: If You Work in Procurement, You Know This Problem: Five Tracking Systems, Zero Consensus on Your Suppliers
If You Work in Procurement, You Know This Problem: Five Tracking Systems, Zero Consensus on Your Suppliers
Ask any procurement or sourcing professional how many places their supplier facility data lives, and the answer will always be: too many. There’s the procurement platform. The sustainability platform. The…
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Click to read more…: Opening Pathways for Safer Data Sharing by Trade Unions and Civil Society
Opening Pathways for Safer Data Sharing by Trade Unions and Civil Society
Open Supply Hub operates as an open platform, but with recognition that openness is not experienced uniformly, and that open data systems can generate uneven consequences depending on power, capacity,…
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Click to read more…: From Satellite to Production Site: A Pilot Project for Integrating AI into Global Supply Chain Mapping
From Satellite to Production Site: A Pilot Project for Integrating AI into Global Supply Chain Mapping
As the world works to live within our true planetary boundaries and ensure rights for all, we face a persistent challenge: opaque global supply chains. How can we demand safe…
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