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Implementation & Integration

The practical, in-the-weeds guides for teams actually building a DPP, not just planning one. This category covers connecting existing PIM data (like Akeneo), mapping product attributes to compliance fields, and the real technical and organizational challenges that come up mid-project. Expect concrete timelines, data-gap warnings, and honest project-cost detail. Written from real implementation experience, not vendor pitch decks.

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Digital Product Passport with inRiver: Entity Mapping, Machinery Rules, and the Industrial B2B Case

Digital Product Passport with inRiver: Entity Mapping, Machinery Rules, and the Industrial B2B Case

B2B manufacturers on inRiver have a different DPP agenda: steel and aluminium are part of the first ESPR working plan, digital machine documentation becomes possible under the Machinery Regulation from 2027, and B2B customers increasingly request structured sustainability data. Learn how the integration handles deep variant trees and why the identifier question should be solved early.

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Digital Product Passport with Salsify: The DPP as One More Syndication Channel

Digital Product Passport with Salsify: The DPP as One More Syndication Channel

Brands on Salsify already syndicate content to demanding channels. The EU Digital Product Passport is one more, with a schema set by law. Learn how the integration works, why retail-hardened data is an advantage, and which category timelines actually apply.

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Digital Product Passport from SAP Data: Add-on Project or API Connector

Digital Product Passport from SAP Data: Add-on Project or API Connector

Material master, classification, DMS: the DPP data is already in SAP. The question is whether you run a year-long add-on project or connect a passport platform over OData in weeks. Both paths compared, with the honest caveats.

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Digital Product Passport with Akeneo: From PIM Attributes to Compliant DPP in 3 Weeks

Digital Product Passport with Akeneo: From PIM Attributes to Compliant DPP in 3 Weeks

Your Akeneo attributes already cover most of what ESPR requires. This guide shows the exact mapping, a real 3-week project timeline, typical data gaps, and what the integration costs.

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Create Your DPP from PIM Data

Create Your DPP from PIM Data

How to automatically create a compliant DPP from your existing product data without external software, without rebuilding.

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Digital Product Passport Implementation Challenges: What Manufacturers Get Wrong

Digital Product Passport Implementation Challenges: What Manufacturers Get Wrong

With the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), the Digital Product Passport (DPP) becomes a key driver of Europe’s sustainability policy. It is designed to create transparency about materials, origin, and environmental impact, helping to accelerate the transition toward a circular economy across the EU.

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Implementing the Digital Product Passport: Key Requirements for Manufacturers Under ESPR

Implementing the Digital Product Passport: Key Requirements for Manufacturers Under ESPR

Rolling out the Digital Product Passport (DPP) imposes comprehensive technical, procedural, and legal requirements on companies across the entire value chain. The DPP is a key component of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and creates obligations for manufacturers, importers, retailers, distributors, and even DPP service providers.

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