DPP Session: Clean the Record and Talk to Suppliers First

The Digital Product Passport starts as a data and supplier project. The legal date matters after the record can survive a question from a retailer or a recycler. That is what the 27 February 2025 session argued for manufacturers, retailers and supply-chain teams.

The recording:

At the microphone:

• Lucy Blackley, Founder and CPO, Bombiix
• Chris Jobse, Co-Founder, PIMvendors.com
• Stephan Spijkers, Co-Founder, PIMvendors.com

What the speakers put on the table:

• Regulations were already on the way. The advice was to prepare while the template is still moving, by making the operation able to comply.
• The passport was framed as supply-chain transparency: sourcing, production, and what happens to the product through to recycling, shared as data.
• Accurate, structured data is the base. Cleaning, and a real conversation with suppliers, is the work.
• Blockchain and AI were named as tools that can take administrative load off that work.
• The session also called transparency a commercial opening, because shoppers ask where a product came from.

The DPP guide is the longer version: who needs a passport, and which fields it pulls out of the PIM. Cleaning the record and agreeing the rules is the same discipline as product data quality and governance. Getting suppliers to send the attributes is an implementation problem, covered in the PIM implementation guide.