The digital passport: what European law actually asks for
The ESPR framework and the European passport registry, explained from a supplier's point of view: what changes for those who make components, and in what order of priority.
Observatory · rules, supply chains, data
What is changing,
explained to those who make things.
The European framework for product data is moving fast: implementing acts, registries, supply chain formats. Here we follow it and translate it into what a manufacturing company actually needs to know — in plain language, with no unexplained acronyms.
In preparationComing soon
The first pieces.
The Observatory opens with these topics. If one of them concerns you closely, tell us: we will start from there.
The lead firm is asking for data: how to answer well
What a supply chain data request contains, what is worth granting, what stays confidential — and how to answer once instead of differently for every customer.
Traceability or passport: two different things
Knowing where the parts are and being able to prove their history to a third party are distinct problems, with distinct solutions. How to tell which one you are facing.
Catena-X, GS1, AAS: who speaks which language
An essential map of the formats circulating in industrial supply chains: who uses them, what they are for, and why it pays to speak all of them without redoing the work each time.
Digital company identity, without the jargon
What a company digital name is, why it should be registered to you, and what it means to have it on your own domain rather than a supplier's.