Adoption Ford Supplier Onboarding

Joining the Chain with Ford - Unlock Value for You

Ford asks its suppliers to join Catena-X and exchange Product Carbon Footprint data. Turn this requirement into an opportunity - sovity gets you onboarded in weeks, not months.

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Ford on Catena-X

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At Ford, we believe that sustainability starts with transparency. To understand the impact, we must look at the entire value chain, from raw materials to finished vehicle.

André Kremer

Supply Chain Manager Sustainability, Ford Motor Company

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sovity Is One of Ford's Preferred Partners For Catena-X

Rooted in Catena-X and Data Spaces, sovity today is on of the leading providers of managed software services around Catena-X.

Our services cover the EDC Connector, Submodels, Digital Twins and more so that your Catena-X PCF exchange is covered in shortest time:

EDC Connector

PCF use case module

Digital Twins

Scalable foundation for further use cases (Traceability, Certificate Management ...)

What is Asked For?

Product Carbon Footprint in Catena-X Explained

Ford needs the CO₂ footprint of the parts you deliver - calculated to the Catena-X PCF Rulebook and exchanged through the network instead of by mail. In practice that means:

A PCF value per part number, based on primary data where available

Exchange via a Catena-X certified connector - you keep control over who sees what

Requests to your own suppliers, so your Scope 3 share is real data, not an average

Updates when the product or process changes - without a new IT project

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Your Contact for the Roll-out

Prefer to talk before filling in a form? Book a slot directly - we will bring the onboarding checklist.

Jakob Quabeck, Lead Customer Success Management

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Why sovity

Connected in Minutes - Not Months

sovity has connected suppliers of various OEMs into Catena-X. Get a productive setup from the start - not a proof of concept and a lengthy consulting project.

Managed service - no connector to operate yourself

Catena-X certified components, TISAX-assessed provider

Guided onboarding by people who know the requirements

Compatible with common PCF calculators and systems

Open-source core, European hosting, no vendor lock-in

Trusted by Leading Players

Across industries, sovity is helping OEMs, suppliers, and ecosystem partners turn data into measurable business outcomes.

sovity Quintari PCF

PCF Made Easy With Quintari

The PCF module of Quintari provides the easiest experience for the PCF use case available on the market. Profit from

Easy-to-use user interface and scalable API

Provide and request PCFs

Integration of 3rd party calculator apps

Compliance with different PCF standards

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The Process

From Request to Live Data Exchange

A typical supplier onboarding takes a few weeks. Here is what happens, and what we need from you.

Week 1

Kick-off & scope

30 minutes with your team

We look at your request together, clarify which part numbers are in scope, who owns the data on your side and define a timeline.

Week 1–2

Catena-X onboarding

Managed by T-Systems

Supported by our partner T-Systems, you become Catena-X participant, receive business partner number (BPN) and verified company identity.

Week 2

Technical connection

Managed by sovity

We deploy and operate your certified setup, including Connector-as-a-Service. No hardware, no ops team, no maintenance for you.

Week 3–4

PCF data exchange

Test & production

We map your carbon data to the Catena-X PCF model, run a test exchange and then publish to your OEM - on production.

Ongoing

Operate & extend

Support included

We keep the setup certified and up to date. When the next use case or the next customer arrives, you are already connected.

Week 1

Kick-off & scope

30 minutes with your team

We look at your request together, clarify which part numbers are in scope, who owns the data on your side and define a timeline.

Week 1–2

Catena-X onboarding

Managed by T-Systems

Supported by our partner T-Systems, you become Catena-X participant, receive business partner number (BPN) and verified company identity.

Week 2

Technical connection

Managed by sovity

We deploy and operate your certified setup, including Connector-as-a-Service. No hardware, no ops team, no maintenance for you.

Week 3–4

PCF data exchange

Test & production

We map your carbon data to the Catena-X PCF model, run a test exchange and then publish to your OEM - on production.

Ongoing

Operate & extend

Support included

We keep the setup certified and up to date. When the next use case or the next customer arrives, you are already connected.

Product Carbon Footprint

Share verified CO₂ data per part - the use case Ford starts with

Customer requests arrive per OEM, in different formats
More than 90% of the footprint sits in Scope 3 - your suppliers
Spreadsheets and mail attachments do not scale

Pre-configured PCF exchange via Catena-X: request footprints from your suppliers, determine precise footprints publish your PCF to many OEMs - standardized, sovereign, auditable.

Details on PCF

Traceability

Trace parts and batches across the supply chain

Recalls require part-level history within hours
Data is scattered across tiers and systems

Digital twins and part chains in Catena-X make traceability queries answerable without creating and orchestrating a massive incident unit and manual data aggregation from multiple system.

Certificate Management

Share certificates once instead of on every request

Certificates are requested and mailed manually, per customer
The amount of necessary certificates keeps on growing
Expiry dates are tracked in local spreadsheets

Company Certificate Management (CCM) requests and publishes certificates in the network - always current, always for the right audience.

Quality

Turn field and production data into faster root-cause analysis

Quality issues surface late, at the Customer
Costly recalls are executed instead of precise action on affected parts
No shared view on non-conformities between partners

Structured quality notifications and alerts along the chain - shared with the partners who need them, and only with them. Intelligent and Automatic identification of affected elements.

Demand & Capacity

Align demand and capacity with your customers

Forecasts in incompatible formats, worst: PDFs and phone calls
Human resources required to keep customer portals up-to-date
Bottlenecks become visible only when it is too late

Demand and Capacity Management (DCM) with Catena-X makes planning data connected and comparable across value chain members.

Product Carbon Footprint is the first of many: The same connection carries every other use case later.

Discuss Your Customer Request

Got a Request? Let's Get You Connected

Leave your details and mention your OEM - we will come back with a concrete next step within one working day.

Read on for More on PCF via Catena-X

Catena-X introduces a whole new level of cooperation. Find further information on PCF in Catena-X below.

Why Bother

What PCF Does for Your Company

Answering this request is the trigger. The value stays with you.

Carbon data per part shows where emissions - and often cost - actually sit. Procurement, engineering and sustainability get one number they can act on instead of four estimates.

You also stay ahead of what is coming: CBAM, CSRD reporting and the Digital Product Passport (DPP) draw on the same data. Many OEMs regard PCF as the first step towards these use cases. In the next nomination round, a supplier who can deliver verified PCF data is the easier choice.

Stay nomination-ready with your OEM customers

One dataset for CSRD, CBAM and Digital Product Passport

Find emission and cost hotspots in your own bill of materials

Replace manual customer questionnaires with one standard interface

Pillars

How Catena-X Works - and Why It Fits This Use Case

Catena-X is the automotive data space: shared rules and open standards that let companies exchange data without handing over control. Three principles make it work.

Data sovereignty

You decide per partner and per purpose which data leaves your company. There is no central data lake.

Open standards

One certified connector and one data model serve every customer - instead of a bilateral interface per OEM.

Network effect

Every additional use case reuses the setup you built for Ford. The first onboarding is the expensive one.

Solutions

Technology