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 audit management system. The spreadsheet someone built a decade ago that everyone is terrified to move on from. And the new due diligence tool the legal team just onboarded.
They all contain facility records. They rarely match.
A factory in Vietnam appears as “Viet Hung Textile Co.” in one system, “Viet Hung” in another, and a GPS coordinate in a third. A site closes; two platforms update, one doesn’t. A supplier adds a new production location; your team finds out during an audit — not before.
This isn’t a data hygiene problem. It’s a structural one, with real costs: duplicated onboarding work, compliance blind spots, sourcing decisions made on outdated information, and sustainability teams unable to report with confidence on a supply base they can’t fully see.
The root issue: data silos
Most supply chain systems were built to track transactions, not production locations. The physical site where goods are actually made is often represented inconsistently across platforms and impossible to reconcile at scale without tedious manual effort. This leaves critical data locked in silos that don’t communicate with each other.
OS Hub exists to solve exactly this. At the center of our platform is the OS ID: a persistent, unique identifier for production facilities, applied across 2.5 million sites in more than 200 countries, and growing. The OS ID becomes a shared language for facility data that lets your systems stop talking past each other and start working together.
For procurement and sourcing teams, that means one reconciled view of your supply base: duplicates collapsed, aliases resolved, new locations surfaced as they’re added. It also means new visibility you didn’t have before, like seeing which other brands and retailers work with your suppliers, or identifying potential new suppliers that might be a strong fit for your sourcing needs. Less time asking “which site is this, exactly?” and more time doing work that actually requires human judgment.
Stop reconciling and start sourcing.
OS Hub is free and open to everyone. Search our database of over 2.5 million production locations, cross-reference your supplier records against verified facility data, and start consolidating the duplicates and discrepancies that are costing your team time and confidence.
For procurement teams that want to go further, our premium offerings include API access and bulk data downloads that plug directly into your existing platforms, so the OS ID simply becomes part of your existing workflow.
And because OS Hub is an open, shared resource, every organization that contributes to and uses the database makes it more accurate and more useful for everyone. The brands and retailers already on the platform aren’t just solving their own data problems, they’re helping to build the world’s most comprehensive, reliable map of global production.
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