Catena-X is the global dataspace for the automotive industry

In Volkswagen Group’s New Auto Strategy, digitalization plays a central role in making manufacturing more efficient and sustainable, improving our customer experience and gearing up our business model for the future. The prerequisite for this is connecting manufacturers, suppliers and partners in a secure data ecosystem. Catena-X is the framework for such a collaborative, open platform along the entire value chain. With our joint venture, Cofinity-X, we are now implementing this vision: via an open marketplace with applications and services that enable secure and standardized data exchange between all players. Cofinity-X customers can access applications and services to realize strategic use cases such as CO2 and ESG monitoring, component traceability and circular economy. We especially want to make it easier for small and medium-sized companies to participate in this data ecosystem on an equal footing. This is how we are taking the digitalization of the automotive industry to the next level.

Deutsche Telekom is proud to be a Catena-X technology partner from the very beginning. With the founding of the first Catena-X operating company, we are now a big step closer to our common goal: to span a cloud-based data network for a digitalized European automotive industry. A network governed by data sovereignty, full GDPR compliance and highest security standards.

The joint venture helps us to achieve sustainability and efficiency goals in the automotive industry faster and more efficiently. This is only possible in a strong team at eye level between the automotive industry, suppliers and equipment manufacturers. Siemens provides Catena-X applications that can be used by all participants in the automotive value chain, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.

Together with sustainability, digitalization is driving the transformation of today’s automotive industry. This transformation can only be successful with a trustworthy and secure data exchange along the entire value chain. This requires top standards and, therefore, a common effort between strong partners. As one of the founding members of Cofinity-X, Schaeffler is proud to be contributing to this essential goal.

Catena-X aims to provide greater resiliency and transparency to the automotive value chain, improving its quality and efficiency for all companies involved. This open and collaborative data ecosystem perfectly reflects SAP’s vision to enable every organization’s participation in a network of intelligent, sustainable enterprises. It also gives the companies leveraging the Catena-X automotive network access to a broad portfolio of SAP solutions, from enabling the traceability of products across multiple parties in the supply chain to tracking and calculating Scope 3 emissions. Cofinity-X marks another important milestone in this pioneering project, and one to which we are excited to contribute.

At Mercedes-Benz, we’re convinced that transparency, efficiency and data sovereignty are the key levers for sustainable and data-driven value chains. Through the new Cofinity-X joint venture, we are bringing to life the Catena-X vision of an open ecosystem for secure and standardized data exchange along the entire value chain. The first solutions are almost ready and, thanks to Cofinity-X, every company in the automotive sector can shortly benefit from services and offers that use the results of Catena-X.

As the leading chemical supplier to the automotive industry, we see tremendous opportunities in operating an ecosystem based on standardized digital services and harmonized data models. This will strengthen supply chain resilience, improve transparency and accelerate the transformation towards circularity and net-zero carbon footprints across many material categories.

The challenges that industries across the globe are facing today can only be solved with a joint and holistic approach to enhance our entire value chains: making them more traceable, more sustainable, more resilient. Catena-X and Cofinity-X have the potential to be a game changer in this endeavor.

The collaboration among OEMs, suppliers and partners is crucial to improve the much-needed transparency along the entire value chain. While Catena-X is pioneering the definition of common standards in key areas such as circular economy, carbon footprint tracking and parts traceability in the automotive industry, we see the new joint venture (Cofinity-X) as a further driver of the digital transformation in the industry and Henkel is highly committed to be a part of it.

Cofinity-X is pioneering the industrialization of Catena-X standards and software artifacts to offer an onboarding point for customers to the Catena-X dataspace. I’m excited to see the first truly open and interoperable product and service portfolio come to life and derive value for all our members.