Adoption Ford Supplier Onboarding

Connect PCF with Ford - Unlock Data 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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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 ...)

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

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

Sustainability & Catena-X

Why Ford Is Asking: Part of a Bigger, Industry-Wide Commitment

Ford has committed to global carbon neutrality by 2050, covering vehicles, operations, and its supply chain. Suppliers are now asked to cut their own footprint by 25% by 2030, in line with science-based targets. In Europe, the goal is even more concrete: carbon-neutral production and supply chain by 2035.

In April 2022, Ford became a founding member of Catena-X, the automotive industry's shared data space for supply chain transparency. The goal is one shared standard across the whole industry - so the PCF setup you build for Ford carries over to other OEM requests, too.

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

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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

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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.

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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