Oatly
Scaling sustainability efforts to foster impactful decision-making
Annika Hansson
Sustainability Controller
Industry
Food
Product
Sustainable Sourcing
Region
EMEA
About
Oatly
Oatly, founded in Sweden in 1994, is a plant-based food brand committed to sustainability. With products available in over 20 countries, Oatly focuses on producing alternatives to dairy exclusively from oats while promoting a plant-based diet to address global food resource challenges. They've chosen Worldfavor's platform to digitize and automate their global sustainability activities, aligning with their mission.
Challenge
Oatly is a global plant-based food brand with a core business model grounded in sustainable practices. Understanding the company's impact through sustainability data is a huge part of Oatly’s communication to consumers and building its position as a leader in the plant-based revolution. Oatly uses Worldfavor to collect data globally, enhance transparency, and provide valuable insights.
Solution
Oatly is currently using Worldfavor’s platform to collect data globally from all offices, production sites, and partners. Through one digital platform, Oatly can automate customized data analyses, saving time and enabling easier insights for decision-making.
Result
Worldfavor's platform enhances Oatly's global staff engagement in sustainability, facilitating interactive data visualization and real-time progress tracking. Tracking SDGs and GRIs gives Oatly valuable insights to make effective, positive, high-impact decisions aligned with global efforts.
Challenges
Oatly has 11 offices worldwide and owns three production units. Beyond Oatly’s internal operations, it works with about twenty external partners. To comprehensively understand and minimize its negative impact, their offices and partners need to measure and report sustainability data. Before implementing Worldfavor, Oatly managed sustainability data manually using Excel sheets, leading to significant administrative burdens. As a rapidly growing company, this approach became increasingly inefficient and time-consuming. This meant finding a system that: Digitalized data collection globally. Simplified quality control of the data. This is in order to make data-driven, sustainable decisions.
Solution
Oatly is currently using Worldfavor’s platform to enable automated customized analyses from the data collection and reduce manual effort. Since sustainability is part of Oatly’s core business model, understanding its impact through sustainability data is a huge part of its communication to consumers and building its position as a leader in the plant-based revolution. By being able to collect data globally from all offices, production sites, and partners through one digital platform, Oatly achieves: More high-quality ESG data offering valuable insights and increased transparency as a basis for sustainable decision-making. Automation within the platform enables quicker and easier data analysis, saving Oatly’s Sustainability Controller time and improving accessibility for non-technical staff.
Result
Worldfavor empowers you with the essential tools to identify the impacts of your supply chain, giving you insights to conduct an informed double materiality assessment. Access key data in line with the ESRS standards to understand risks and opportunities, and take smart action to improve your sustainability, and excel in your CSRD reporting!
