Digital Product Passport
A structured digital record of a product's composition, origin, environmental footprint and history, readable across the product's lifecycle.
A Digital Product Passport is a structured, machine-readable record that travels with a product across its lifecycle. It carries information about composition, origin, manufacturing, environmental footprint, repair history and end-of-life handling, and is designed to be readable by regulators, customers and consumers using a standard identifier such as a QR code or RFID tag.
Where DPPs originate
DPPs are introduced under the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), with sectoral roll-out beginning with batteries and extending into textiles, electronics, construction products, furniture and others over the coming years.
What goes into a DPP
A DPP is only as good as the data behind it. The information it carries, material composition, origin, supplier identity, certifications and environmental indicators, must come from somewhere upstream, and it must be kept current as supply chain configurations change.
How a supply chain data network supports DPPs
The supply chain data network holds the underlying product, supplier and origin data that a DPP renders. Suppliers maintain that data inside the systems their teams already use. Buyers compose the DPP from data already on the network, with provenance intact.