Amer Sports strengthens global sustainability data governance and GHG emissions accuracy with Sphera

Challenges

Amer Sports required a system capable of capturing the complexity of shared global operations and diverse brand structures while ensuring consistent and defensible climate calculations across the organization. Key challenges include:

• Complex multi-brand operating model
• Diverse calculation methodologies
• Distributed data ownership across sites
• Need for standardized emissions factors

Solution

The SpheraCloud Corporate Sustainability (SCCS) solution provided a centralized structure for collecting and managing environmental data across all sites and brands, significantly simplifying data consolidation and reducing variability in reporting practices. With standardized emissions factors and aligned calculation methodologies, Amer Sports has further improved consistency and transparency of its climate disclosures, an essential step in supporting its SBTi-validated targets.

Beyond technology, Sphera’s advisory expertise helped drive internal alignment on definitions, processes and ownership. Through targeted consulting support and workshops, Amer Sports clarified governance and ownership structures, onboarded new team members more effectively and strengthened cross-functional alignment.

Results

Amer Sports established a harmonized data management framework across the group, improving data reliability and creating a scalable foundation for SBTi-aligned target setting and performance management.

• Achieved improved site coverage, reducing estimates and increasing emissions accuracy and audit defensibility
• User adoption improved notably, strengthening accountability and data ownership across functions
• Enabled consistent methodologies across the group, improving comparability and governance
• Expanded sustainability reporting scope with new indicators across water, waste, and social and governance metrics
• Reduced complexity in global data collection and consolidation, improving reporting efficiency