No big birthday is complete without a look at the milestones we’ve achieved over the last few years. While we might not be celebrating our physical growth with markers on a wall or pictures of the foods we’ve started eating, here’s what we’re celebrating on our 5th birthday:
260,000 + Unique Production Locations Mapped:
From March 2023 to March 2024, the OS Hub database had grown by 28% – that’s over 51,000 additional supply chain locations, or “facilities,” that have been added to OS Hub in a single year! And our global coverage is growing, too. In 2020, we had mapped facilities in 94 countries; this year, data on the OS Hub represents production locations mapped in 166 countries.
Millions of Production Location Records Processed:
The roughly 234,000 facilities that were on OS Hub in March 2024 came from over 2.6M facility records that have been uploaded. When facility records are uploaded, the OS Hub human-in-the-loop machine learning process looks for matches with existing OS Hub records, adding the uploaded records to existing profiles or creating new facility profiles when a match does not exist.
Hundreds of Public Datasets Uploaded:
Our team has added over 315 public data sets in the last 5 years, representing over 90,000 unique production locations. Public data sets, or “public lists” as they’re labeled on OS Hub, are supply chain data sets that our team researches, cleans and uploads to OS Hub to provide even richer pictures of the ecosystem of datasets available for production locations. Considering all of the facility records that OS Hub processes to identify matches, facility records that come from public data represent roughly a quarter of the total data uploaded to OS Hub.
Over 1000 Contributing Organizations:
In addition to turning five, we recently hit another big milestone: over 1000 organizations have contributed data to Open Supply Hub. 331 new organizations have started sharing data in the last year alone! Roughly 50% of contributors to OS Hub represent brands or retailers, another 30% are auditors or certification schemes, and roughly 15% represent multi-stakeholder initiatives. The remaining contributors are made up of civil society organizations, academic researchers or journalists, and facilities themselves.
Investing in Reducing Audit Fatigue:
An important source of data is that coming from facilities themselves. Facilities that upload their data directly to OS Hub have the option to “claim” their profile. This allows facilities to add additional data points like contact information, a description of the facility, a facility website, minimum order quantities, lead times, percent female workers, and more, in addition to all of the standard data points on OS Hub. In the last year, the number of claimed facilities has nearly doubled! With the ever-growing need to reduce fatigue, the adoption of this feature becomes more and more central to OS Hub’s and our users’ strategies, as it enables streamlined supplier communications and the ability for everyone connected to a facility to work from the same base, open information.
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