What is a Digital Product Passport (DPP)?

A Digital Product Passport is a digital record containing information about a product and its lifecycle. It can make relevant product information accessible to your value chain, customers, regulators, and other stakeholders through a digital carrier such as a QR code or NFC.

Which products need a Digital Product Passport?

Whether you need a Digital Product Passport depends on your product group and the applicable regulation. Requirements are being introduced progressively across selected product groups. But you don't have to wait for a legal requirement to get started. A DPP can also help you differentiate through greater product transparency, improve information sharing across your value chain and give customers better access to reliable product information.

What data is needed for a Digital Product Passport?

The required data depends on the product group and applicable requirements. Relevant information can come from different business and product systems and may need to be brought together, governed and made available at different levels of detail.

Where does Digital Product Passport data come from?

DPP data can come from systems including ERP, PIM, DAM, PLM, DMS, and your carbon footprint calculator. A data platform can bring information from these different sources together before it is shared through the DPP.

Is a Digital Product Passport only for compliance?

No. A DPP can also support product management, information sharing across the supply chain and digital customer experiences. Consumer-facing applications can extend to product content, post-sale experiences, marketing campaigns and scan analytics.

How can delaware help with Digital Product Passports?

delaware supports the DPP journey across strategy and design, platform and integration, and customer experience, combining sustainability expertise, data architecture, integration services and digital delivery.

Digital Product Passport (DPP) solutions

Digital Product Passport (DPP)

Turn product data into transparency, compliance, and customer value

A Digital Product Passport brings information from across your product lifecycle together in one accessible digital record. But getting there takes more than adding a QR code to your product, label or packaging. It means collecting data across systems and across your value chain, making it secure, machine-readable, and reliable, and turning it into information that regulators, partners and customers can access and use.

delaware helps you connect the dots, from DPP strategy and regulatory readiness to data architecture, integration, and the digital experience.

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What stands between you and a working DPP?

A Digital Product Passport may look simple from the outside. But behind the QR code sits a big challenge: bringing together reliable product data and sharing the relevant information at the right level of detail with the right audiences.

Know what's required

Understand which regulations and DPP requirements apply to your products, which data you'll need and when you need to be ready.

Bring scattered data together

Product information rarely sits in one place. Bring scattered data together into a reliable foundation for your DPP.

Share with confidence

Make product data available beyond your organization while controlling which information is available to different audiences.

Make data usable across systems and markets

Ensure product information meets technical requirements, such as being interoperable, machine-readable, and available in the right languages.

Stay in control of every version

Provide the right level of detail to different audiences while maintaining traceability and versioning throughout your product lifecycle.

Part of delaware's sustainability solutions

DPP is one piece of a much broader sustainability landscape. delaware helps you implement sustainability solutions and integrate them into your existing business systems and processes. This makes sustainability part of day-to-day operations and creates a stronger foundation for sustainability management, reporting and insights.

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One DPP, more than one reason to get started

The motivation may be regulatory, operational or commercial, but they all depend on the same thing: reliable product data that is accessible and usable across the business.

Product management & supply chain

Create a reliable way to make current product information available across your value chain, with greater control over what different audiences can access.

Marketing & customer experience

Turn the physical product into a digital touchpoint with richer product information, post-sale experiences and insights from scan behaviour. The original concept includes product storytelling, campaigns, loyalty and take-back touchpoints, and scan analytics.

Regulatory & Compliance

Turn regulatory requirements into manageable processes with trusted product data that supports compliance, reporting and continued market access.

From capturing data to sharing it

There is no single system behind your Digital Product Passport. The information already lives across your technology landscape. The challenge is connecting those sources and turning scattered product data into one governed foundation that can be shared with the right audiences.

Source systems

ERP · PIM · DAM · PLM · DMS

Data platform

Microsoft Azure · Databricks · SAP Business Data Cloud

Standards & carriers

GS1 Digital Link · QR code · NFC

Experience layer

Product portal · Customer portal · Website

01 Strategy & design

Define what your DPP needs to deliver

Start with your products, requirements, audiences and data maturity. Together, we define the scope and ambition of your DPP and translate it into a realistic roadmap.

DPP scope & ambition · audience mapping · data maturity · roadmap

02 Platform & integration

Build one governed product record

Connect product, operational and sustainability data across your landscape and create the governed foundation your DPP needs, with traceability, versioning and interoperability built in.

Data architecture · integration · governance · GS1 Digital Link

03 Customer experience

Turn product data into an experience

Make the DPP useful for the people interacting with it, through product portals, relevant product content and digital experiences. Where relevant, extend it with campaigns and scan analytics.

Product portal · product stories · campaigns · scan analytics

Why delaware for your DPP?

One team across the entire DPP journey: A Digital Product Passport crosses sustainability, product data, technology and customer experience. delaware brings those capabilities together in one committed team.
End-to-end expertise: Bring together sustainability expertise, data architecture, integration services and digital delivery rather than solving each part of the DPP challenge separately.
Built around your reality: Start from your products, data landscape and level of maturity, with a solution designed to grow with your needs. The briefing explicitly positions the solution as custom-built around the customer's maturity rather than differentiated by company size.
From data to experience: Go beyond the compliance build with product portals and digital experiences that make DPP data useful to customers and other audiences.
Beyond implementation: Extend the DPP into marketing campaigns and scan analytics, turning the product passport into more than a regulatory endpoint.

Ready to take the next step?

You don't need to have every DPP requirement or system connection figured out before you start.

Our readiness assessment helps you understand where you stand, what needs attention and how to move forward. Or talk to one of our experts about what Digital Product Passports mean for your products and data landscape.

Charlotte Bayart

Data & Sustainability Expert
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Frequently Asked Questions

A Digital Product Passport is a digital record containing information about a product and its lifecycle. It can make relevant product information accessible to your value chain, customers, regulators, and other stakeholders through a digital carrier such as a QR code or NFC.
Whether you need a Digital Product Passport depends on your product group and the applicable regulation. Requirements are being introduced progressively across selected product groups. But you don't have to wait for a legal requirement to get started. A DPP can also help you differentiate through greater product transparency, improve information sharing across your value chain and give customers better access to reliable product information.
The required data depends on the product group and applicable requirements. Relevant information can come from different business and product systems and may need to be brought together, governed and made available at different levels of detail.
DPP data can come from systems including ERP, PIM, DAM, PLM, DMS, and your carbon footprint calculator. A data platform can bring information from these different sources together before it is shared through the DPP.
No. A DPP can also support product management, information sharing across the supply chain and digital customer experiences. Consumer-facing applications can extend to product content, post-sale experiences, marketing campaigns and scan analytics.
delaware supports the DPP journey across strategy and design, platform and integration, and customer experience, combining sustainability expertise, data architecture, integration services and digital delivery.