Texbase Integrates Open Supply Hub’s Facility IDs, Linking Where Products Are Made to Testing and Compliance Data

Integration gives brands and their partners a consistent reference for production facilities, connecting location information with the materials, testing and compliance records they already manage in Texbase

BOZEMAN, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Texbase, a cloud-based platform that connects brands and retailers to their supply chain partners and independent testing labs, today announced it has integrated Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) facility identifiers into Texbase. The integration brings the OS ID, a globally recognized and open facility identifier, into the shared ecosystem brands and their partners use to manage supply chain data, giving teams a consistent way to identify production facilities and connect those locations to the product, material, testing, compliance and traceability information managed in Texbase.

OS Hub is a nonprofit, open-access platform that maps production facilities around the world and connects them to the brands and organizations working with them. Each production location listed on the OS Hub platform receives a unique OS ID. The IDs are free to use and are designed to support connections between systems, giving brands, suppliers and regulators a consistent way to reference the same facility.

Brands face growing pressure to understand where their products are made and to maintain connected, dependable information for traceability, compliance, reporting and digital product passport (DPP) initiatives. Yet a single production facility often appears under different names across supplier lists and systems, making records difficult to reconcile and the information tied to each location harder to trust. Open, standardized facility identification addresses that foundational data problem.

Within Texbase, a facility’s OS ID is tied to the source of materials and production facilities already managed in the platform. The integration reduces ambiguity when teams reconcile facility records, improves consistency across systems and partners, and strengthens the data foundation brands use for traceability and DPP-related work. It also reflects Texbase’s focus on helping brands move beyond traceability to product compliance they can prove, with facility identity connected to the testing and compliance evidence behind each product.

“Brands can’t fully stand behind a product claim if they can’t say with confidence where that product was made, and where all its materials come from,” said Joe Walkuski, founder and chief product officer of Texbase. “The same facility can show up under various names across supplier lists and systems, and every variation makes it harder to connect that location to the materials, test results and certifications tied to it. By integrating Open Supply Hub’s globally recognized OS IDs into Texbase, we give brands and their partners one consistent facility reference within the data they already use for testing, compliance and traceability, without adding another disconnected identifier or data source. That creates a stronger foundation for initiatives such as digital product passports and for the next wave of product data requirements.”

“Open data delivers its greatest value when it’s put to work,” said Natalie Grillon, chief executive officer at Open Supply Hub. “The OS ID was built as shared, open infrastructure so brands, suppliers, service providers and civil society organizations can all recognize the same production location, no matter which system they’re working in. Integrations like this one with Texbase carry that common reference into the product and supply chain workflows where brands make day-to-day decisions, and each one strengthens the case for an open, collaborative approach to facility data across the industry.”

As brands prepare for expanding traceability and DPP requirements, Texbase and OS Hub aim to help them build that work on a consistent, shared foundation for facility data. The integration is now available to Texbase users.

To learn more about Texbase, visit texbase.com. To learn more about Open Supply Hub, visit opensupplyhub.org.

About Texbase

Founded in 2002, Texbase is a leading cloud-based platform that pioneered helping consumer brands easily collect and manage product compliance, traceability, and sustainability data. Top brands, such as Amazon, Under Armour, Carhartt, and Bauer, rely on Texbase for supply chain data management, sustainable material sourcing, compliance and certification management, materials performance testing, and more. Learn more at texbase.com.

About Open Supply Hub

Open Supply Hub is a non-profit platform powering the transition to safe and sustainable production, with the world’s most complete, open and accessible global supply chain map. With their users, they have mapped more than 2.5 million production locations around the world, showing where global production is happening and who is connected to each location.

Open Supply Hub is used by some of the world’s best-known brands, as well as human rights, labor and environmental groups. Individually or together, those organizations can contribute, download, and search the data to spot opportunities, build partnerships, and drive investment and impact. By making collectively built supply chain data easy for anyone to work with, Open Supply Hub’s model is opening doors to new solutions, targeted investment, and more effective collaborations.

Open Supply Hub’s vision is to map all of the world’s production locations, transforming supply chain ecosystems for the 450 million+ people working in them.