Traceability
Traceability ensures transparency across the value chain by addressing silos and enabling secure, interoperable collaboration.
Traceability is essential for creating transparency and accountability across the entire value chain, from production to recycling. By capturing detailed data on every step of a product's lifecycle—including materials, components, and software—companies can ensure compliance, enhance operational efficiency, and enable innovative applications such as circular economy practices and CO2 footprint calculations. This use case highlights how leveraging interoperable systems and standardized processes enables seamless collaboration between stakeholders of all sizes, paving the way for a more sustainable and connected industry.
Challenges
- Fragmented data: Limited sharing of traceability data between organizations, often confined within silos.
- Infrastructure gaps: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often lack the necessary digital infrastructure to participate effectively.
- Complexity of value chains: The multi-layered nature of lifecycle involves numerous processes, stakeholders, and materials, making consistent traceability difficult.
- Cost and effort: Initial efforts to establish traceability systems, especially for SMEs, can be resource-intensive and require technical expertise.
- Interoperability issues: Lack of standardized formats and protocols hinders seamless integration and information exchange.
Solutions
- Connect & Integrate offers an intuitive and easy way for organizations to participate in data ecosystems, where companies of all sizes can exchange data across the value chain. This application provides a managed full-service connection to and data integration. The application is a certified solution by Catena-X and is cloud-agnostic, use-case-agnostic and vendor-independent. Our solutions allow organizations to use applications and act as both data provider and consumer while maintaining data sovereignty. We offer a one-stop-shop, from connection to integration and app building in an easy-to-use interface, where users can manage and govern their data offers.
- Build & Operate provides an out-of-the-box environment to set up a traceability application and supply it with the necessary data. Within this environment, organizations can seamlessly exchange data with others to feed the applications with relevant information. Additionally, Build & Operate offers the necessary tools for further development and management of the application.
- Trust & Participate addresses traceability challenges by providing a decentralized, secure, and privacy-preserving Verifiable Credentials (VC) solution. It enables stakeholders to issue and verify tamper-proof digital credentials that prove specific claims, such as product origin, compliance, or processing details. VCs ensure data authenticity, integrity, and selective disclosure, allowing only necessary information to be shared while protecting sensitive details. By fostering trust and interoperability across diverse systems, this solution streamlines regulatory compliance, enhances transparency, and reduces inefficiencies, creating a more reliable and trustworthy ecosystem for tracking products and materials.
Benefits
Trustful
T-Systems’ independent and secure global network entrusted with the initial Gaia-X Digital Clearing House node in Europe
Interactive
Highly intuitive UI for credential holder along with easy-to-use recipient & credential lifecycle management
Intelligent
Service based on customer parameters to allocate trust-levels across dataspace participants for added trust
Sovereign
Use your credentials in any dataspace and maintain control over your self-sovereign identity (SSI).
Interoperable
Take your identities to other data-driven ecosystems for complete interoperability within data mesh context