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Discover the perfect solution for your business needs. Each use case includes clear requirements, implementation guidance, and expert support.
Company Certificate Management
A streamlined, efficient way for automotive suppliers to manage key documents like ISO and sustainability certificates.
- One-time upload
- multiple sharing
- Common certificate types (ISO, IATF,...)
- Secure and auditable document access
- Less maintenance effort
- Greater competitiveness
- Up to 95% reduction in administrative effort and significant cost savings (based on industry benchmarks)
Product Carbon Footprint
Standardized calculation and exchange of CO₂ footprint data across the supply chain.
- More accurate Scope 1‑3 PCF measurements
- Better comparability across the supply chain
- Reliable CO₂ reporting & compliance readiness
- Reduced manual supplier communication
- Faster, data‑driven decarbonization decisions
Digital Product Passport
Create, manage and exchange standardized digital product information across the entire lifecycle of a product.
- Full lifecycle tracking
- Standardized and secure data exchange
- Uniform processes and efficient partner collaboration
Demand and Capacity Management
Agile, collaborative, and resilient demand and capacity management through trusted, standardized, and decentralized data exchange.
- Demand sharing
- Capacity sharing
- Bottleneck alerting
- Simulated Pre-Production
- Up to 24 months of operational and tactical time horizon
Traceability
Establishing a data chain with connection between sub-components, components and vehicle
- End to End part tracing within the full value chain
- Connection of Digital Twins across value chains
- Efficient and fast communication within the value chain
Quality
Sharing of diagnostic, claim, vehicle, and production data to detect defects early and enable joint analysis.
- Earlier error detection
- Faster root cause & risk analysis
- Better identification of affected vehicles/components
Short Term Supply Management (PURIS)
Collaborative short-term planning of supply and demand to prevent bottlenecks and increase resilience.
- Up to 4-week forward visibility
- Real-time data on stock and demand
- Early detection of supply risks
Business Partner Data Management
Centralized sharing and enrichment of business partner data.
- BPN‑based golden records
- API‑based partner data exchange
- Data cleaning & enrichment
Technical requirements and services that allow participants to join the Catena-X dataspace and enable standardized, sovereign data exchange.
- Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC): The Dataspace Connector enables data exchange across all use cases and is based on the EDC framework.
- Digital Twin Registry (DTR): Stores and manages digital twins from various systems and registers data assets in the dataspace.
- Access and Usage Policies: Access to data assets in the EDC is controlled using policies that reference the BPN. Only companies with verified identities and approval of the data owner can be granted access to certain data.