Challenge:
Uncertainty in future demand and capacity as well as heterogeneous approaches to manage them across the supply chain make it hard to properly align both along the supply chain in time.

Goal:
Enhance supply chain resilience by enabling a faster, more reliable and common interpretation of demand and capacity information across the different tier levels.

Solution Approach:
Create a common, easily accessible data space and business application standard with low entry barriers that enables a semi-automated, multi-tier exchange and alignment of demand and capacity while ensuring data security and sovereignty.

Benefit for User:
The primary benefit for the user is maximized transparency and streamlined trusted collaboration across the supply chain, reducing risk of missing parts and increasing responsiveness along the supply chain in case of planning updates.

Challenge:

- Currently, only a few companies calculate an LCA. There is a lack of process data at company level and standardized guidelines on how an LCA should be calculated. As a result, it is not possible to determine overall product-related environmental impacts (such as the PCF) and the various approaches and estimates result in very large inaccuracies due to the lack of data.

- Furthermore, LCAs are only calculated and exchanged in a few cases for some products and only by some stakeholders (mainly based on secondary data). Therefore, it is not possible to exchange LCA data based on primary/secondary data along the entire chain.


Goal:

Our vision for the PCF/LCA use case is the exchange of LCA data along the supply chain through the exchange of LCA results, which have been calculated in a standardized way, as well as information on the method, data collection and data quality.


Solution Approach:

Create a common Rulebook specific to the aviation industry to provide guidance on the implementation of LCAs, that is based on existing standards and the Catena-X Rulebook.

Development of a standardized data model and procedures for the aviation industry to support the exchange of PCF data along the supply chain based on existing standards (such as Catena X, WBCSD, IDTA) and requirements derived from business use cases.

Benefit for User:

- Enablement of SMEs to calculate PCF/LCA, as well as the ability to assess environmental impacts, which can lead to process optimization. A ahgher quality of LCA results due to standardized procedure, which leads to increased transparency.

- Access to specific information on PCF/LCA in the supply chain and more transparency regarding environmental impacts, actual process efficiency or energy usage

Challenge:

No common standard format & Platform to exchange product / component information, as the Information Exchange about components is based on individual agreements​, which leads to high manual efforts involved in tracing and collecting component data from the supply chain and difficulties in meeting future regulatory requirements.


Goal:

Standardized exchange of product & component information, with easy and simple way for stakeholders in the supply chain (especially MROs, Brokers, Recyclers) to access data.


Solution Approach:

Development of a standardized data model for aviation for a Digital Product Passport to support the exchange of data along the supply chain based on existing data models (such as Catena X, IDTA), that is aligned with regulations (e.g. ESPR) and captures aerospace specifics.


Benefit für User:

Avoidance of manual efforts for data digitalization and harmonization
Support of reporting and compliance obgligations through data availability
Support of reuse, repair of components through data availability

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Wallets supporting multiple authentication procotols (DCP, OID4VC)

Identity and Access Management (IAM) & Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)