Digital Product Passport (DPP)

The Digital Product Passport is part of the EU Action Plan for the Circular Economy. It is meant to give buyers, repair shops, and recycling companies access to standardized product information that supports repair, reuse, and recycling. The passport is typically accessed via QR code or NFC chip on the product.

The DPP covers far more than classic product data. Material composition per component, CO2 footprint along the supply chain, repair instructions, spare parts availability, recycling guidance. This data often lives in isolated systems (PLM, ERP, supplier portals) and has to be consolidated for the DPP.

Pimcore provides the structured data foundation for that. PIM manages the product-side required attributes, MDM consolidates supplier and material master data, DAM holds manuals and technical documents. Through open APIs, DPP-compliant data packages are generated and published to EU-compliant hosting platforms, without maintaining the same data twice.