Recently, there has been growing recognition of the criitical importance of supply chain resilience and carbon/GHG tracking and reporting on a global scale. Addressing these global challenges necessitates robust soluti ons that enhance internationally coordinated efforts. The concept of a Digital Product Passport (DPP) plays a pivotal role in achieving this goal, particularly for manufacturers in supply chains that sell products to consumers in Europe. By ensuring secure and well-managed industrial data interoperability across both inter- and intra-company manufacturing platforms, the DPP unlocks significant opportunities for enhancing end-to-end industry process optimization.

This paper aims at informing interested readers about the challenges and opportunities of the DPP, displaying two different prototypical exemplary demonstrations. These examples highlight how the DPP can be part of the solution for innovative businesses and economies to adopt to the global multi-crisis. Furthermore, the DPP is contextualized in the digital ecosystem demonstrating the needs and benefits of international cooperation – presented by the US-German collaboration. Additionally, technical insights of the demonstrators are shown. Finally, the paper gives an outlook on what next steps are needed.