INTERSPORT combines Open Supply Hub's location data with Worldly and Nala to assess nature risks across their supply chain and build resilience through targeted supplier engagement.
Open Supply Hub enables comprehensive nature risk mapping
The INTERSPORT Group is among the world's leading sporting goods retailers, with a turnover of over EUR 14 billion in 2024 and 5,464 stores in 42 countries. As environmental regulations like the EU's CSRD and reporting frameworks like TNFD increasingly require companies to understand their interactions with nature, INTERSPORT's ESG team recognized the need to supplement their existing environmental data with regional biodiversity insights at partner locations.
Environmental degradation can result in significant business risk when natural resources that companies rely on become disrupted, or when a company's connection to degradation causes legal liability or reputational damage. INTERSPORT needed a way to identify which suppliers faced the greatest nature-related risks and engage them proactively to build supply chain resilience.
Open Supply Hub's standardized facility location data provided the foundation for INTERSPORT's nature risk assessment strategy. By using OS Hub as the central source of truth for facility location data, INTERSPORT could efficiently match their facilities with external environmental datasets and integrate multiple data sources seamlessly.
Connecting datasets for actionable insights
INTERSPORT's approach demonstrates the power of Open Supply Hub's interoperability. The company combines three complementary data sources: Open Supply Hub's comprehensive facility mapping, Worldly's primary environmental impact data from factory audits, and Nala's nature risk platform that evaluates biodiversity, land, and water risks at specific locations.
This integration allows INTERSPORT to assess potential risks their supply chain partners face, including water availability, water pollution, and proximity to protected areas. While Nala's platform evaluates the state of nature at facility locations, Worldly provides primary data and analytics from partner sites, and Open Supply Hub ensures all datasets can be matched accurately to the same facilities through standardized identifiers.
The combination empowers INTERSPORT to start targeted conversations with partners who are most exposed to nature risk and support them in mitigating those risks. Rather than taking a broad-brush approach, they can focus their resources and expertise where they will have the greatest impact on building supply chain resilience.
Streamlined collaboration and enhanced efficiency
Open Supply Hub's standardized facility data eliminates the confusion and inefficiency that typically comes with matching supplier information across different platforms and datasets. Without this common reference point, INTERSPORT would face significant challenges in accurately connecting their suppliers' locations with environmental risk data from multiple sources.
The OS ID enables INTERSPORT to quickly and reliably link facilities across their various data systems, ensuring that nature risk assessments are applied to the correct locations and that supplier engagement efforts are properly targeted. This standardization is crucial when working with complex environmental datasets that require precise geographic matching.
Since implementing this integrated approach, INTERSPORT has experienced a noticeable shift in how they approach biodiversity both internally and with their extended value chain partners. The platform has enabled more sophisticated conversations about environmental risks and opportunities for improvement with suppliers.
INTERSPORT Group is among the world's leading sporting goods retailers, operating 5,464 stores across 42 countries with a focus on helping customers lead active lifestyles through high-quality sporting goods and equipment.
Nala is a nature risk & reporting platform empowering companies to build resilience against risks across biodiversity, land, and water use and to streamline nature compliance and reporting.
Worldly is a leading sustainability data and analytics platform for the consumer goods industry, empowering brands, retailers, and suppliers to turn primary data into strategic business action. Trusted by a network of over 40,000 global customers across apparel, footwear, home furnishings, outdoor sporting goods, and more, Worldly provides deep visibility into environmental and social impact—from carbon and water to chemicals and labor—at the product, facility, and value chain level.
