The Digital Product Passport is coming. Your product data isn't ready.
Battery passport from February 2027, construction products and steel in the pipeline — and between the legal act and the obligation there are usually only 18 months. The bottleneck isn't the QR code, it's the data foundation: Syntact uses AI to consolidate your product data from ERP, Excel, PDF catalogs and supplier data into a reliable golden record — DPP-ready.
The product passport isn't a software question. It's a data question.
Any provider can print QR codes. The real work sits upstream: turning data that lives in five systems today into one reliable truth per product.
Product data is scattered across ERP, PIM, spreadsheets and supplier catalogs — full of contradictions nobody resolves. Which version goes into the passport?
Material composition, origin, environmental data, repairability: the DPP demands attributes that exist in no field of your ERP today — and that nobody wants to retype from PDF catalogs.
The product passport needs data from your supply chain. If you're already chasing suppliers for catalogs today, you won't collect DPP-mandatory attributes by email.
The same product three times in your master data? That means three passports with three versions of the truth — and a compliance problem that didn't exist before.
The EU has written the calendar. It won't wait for you.
The product passport arrives in waves — per product group via delegated act, then the transition period starts. Whoever starts then consolidates their data against the clock. Whoever starts earlier already has it done.
Industrial, traction and LMT batteries need a battery passport from this day (EU 2023/1542). The only legally fixed DPP date so far — and the precedent for everything that follows.
The new Construction Products Regulation (EU 2024/3110) introduces its own product passport for harmonised construction products. The system act is expected from H2 2026 at the earliest — followed by an 18-month transition period.
Iron & steel lead the ESPR working plan (delegated act expected from 2026); textiles, tyres and aluminium follow from 2027, furniture 2028, mattresses 2029 — each becoming mandatory roughly 18 months later.
Between the delegated act and the obligation there are typically only 18 months. Consolidating product data across ERP, spreadsheets and suppliers takes longer than that in practice — which is why starting before the act matters.
Know where you stand in 3 minutes — free, instant results.
Ten questions about your product data. No sales call as a precondition, no software installation: you see your readiness score and your most critical gaps right here on the page.
That determines which deadline is ticking for you.
From data chaos to DPP foundation — without a retyping project.
Your data already exists — scattered across ERP, Excel, catalogs and suppliers. Syntact's AI brings it together instead of having it re-entered.
Syntact reads your existing sources: ERP exports, Excel lists, PDF catalogs, and your suppliers' structured formats like BMEcat. Nobody builds mapping files, nobody retypes attributes — catalogs with 400 products or 40,000.
The AI recognises the same product across all sources, resolves duplicates and contradictions, and fills missing attributes with source references. Five versions of a product become one you can rely on.
Your product data ends up machine-readable and export-ready — structured to your attribute model, ready for the EU registry, your passport provider, or your own delivery via API and QR code.
You stay in control: every consolidation carries a source reference, every merge is traceable and can be overridden. The AI proposes — humans decide.
DPP tools render the passport. Syntact builds the foundation underneath.
A product passport is only as good as the data behind it. That's why we start where DPP projects actually fail — not where it looks easiest.
DPP software renders passports and QR codes — from the data you supply. That's exactly where projects fail. Syntact builds the data foundation that any passport provider can plug into.
Classic PIM/MDM rollouts mean months of attribute mapping and manual data entry. Syntact's AI reads catalogs, exports and PDFs itself — and proposes the consolidation instead of assigning it to you as homework.
The DPP is a supply-chain problem: half the mandatory attributes come from your upstream suppliers. Syntact processes their formats — BMEcat, Excel, PDF — without your suppliers having to learn new portals.
The technical DPP standards (CEN/CLC JTC 24) are still being written. Buying a passport frontend today is a bet on a standard. Clean, machine-readable product data is the only investment that stays safe.
The same consolidated data doesn't just power the product passport: your webshop, tenders, pricing and ERP benefit immediately — the DPP becomes the occasion to fix a problem that's already costing you money.
Product data is competitive data. Syntact runs GDPR-compliant in the EU, on request in your own cloud or on-premises — with permissions and audit logs at every level.
The mechanism is already running — with real customers, on real product masters.
Duplicate cleansing, catalog extraction from BMEcat and PDF, golden records with source references: exactly the disciplines the product passport demands are Syntact's core business — in production today at trading and construction companies. Syntact is the AI foundation platform for enterprises: operated in the EU, down to on-premises.
- Product masters with tens of thousands of items consolidated from heterogeneous sources
- Supplier catalogs read automatically — BMEcat, Excel, PDF
- After the DPP foundation: webshop data, tenders, knowledge assistant — same platform
"With Syntact, we successfully unified all our product, pricing, and logistics data and achieved ROI from the very first use case."
30 minutes. Your real data. A clear DPP roadmap.
No slide deck: bring a typical product — ERP extract, supplier catalog, datasheet. You'll see live how the AI turns it into a consolidated record, and we'll work out your deadlines in concrete terms.
- Your deadline, in black and whiteWhich legal act hits your product group and how much lead time you realistically have left.
- A live look at your data situationWhat the AI consolidates from your sample product — and where your real gaps are.
- A concrete pilot planSteps, timeline and what we need from your IT (not much).
- Engineers, not salesYou talk to the solutions architect who will build the pilot.
- What is the Digital Product Passport (DPP)?
- The Digital Product Passport is a structured, machine-readable data record about a product — material composition, origin, environmental properties, repairability, end-of-life handling — accessible via a data carrier on the product, typically a QR code. It is introduced by the EU Ecodesign Regulation (ESPR, EU 2024/1781) and product-specific legislation such as the Battery Regulation and the new Construction Products Regulation. The goal: transparency across the entire lifecycle for authorities, business partners and consumers.
- When does the Digital Product Passport become mandatory?
- Staggered by product group. Fixed so far is the battery passport: from 18 February 2027 for industrial, traction and LMT batteries. For construction products, the new CPR (EU 2024/3110) has applied since January 2026; the passport becomes concrete with the system act, expected from late 2026 at the earliest. In the ESPR working plan, iron & steel come first (delegated act expected from 2026), then textiles, tyres, aluminium, furniture, mattresses. Between the act and the obligation there is usually a transition period of around 18 months.
- Which products need a Digital Product Passport?
- Eventually almost all physical products on the EU market — the main exemptions are food, feed and medicinal products. The order is set by the European Commission's ESPR working plans; first come batteries, construction products, iron & steel and textiles. Even companies outside the first wave are affected: as suppliers whose customers will demand DPP data.
- What data has to go into the product passport?
- The exact mandatory fields are defined per product group in the respective delegated act. Foreseeable are: unique product identification (e.g. GTIN), material composition and substances of concern, origin and manufacturer details, environmental data such as carbon footprint, information on repairability, spare parts, recycled content and disposal, and conformity documentation. The battery passport with its 90+ data points shows the order of magnitude. The common denominator across all product groups: none of these fields can be filled reliably without consolidated product master data.
- Does the DPP also affect distributors and wholesalers?
- Yes. The ESPR explicitly obliges distributors: they may only offer products that carry the required product passport and must make the data carrier visible to customers — including online. For wholesalers with tens of thousands of articles from hundreds of suppliers, that means receiving, checking and passing on DPP data. That is a supplier-data problem — and exactly the terrain where Syntact operates.
- What happens if we're not ready in time?
- Products without a required product passport can no longer be placed on the EU market — the passport becomes a market-access requirement like the CE mark today. Add to that penalties defined by the member states, and the commercial damage: tenders and key accounts typically demand the data before the legal deadline.
- Isn't DPP software enough once the time comes?
- DPP platforms solve publication: QR code, hosting, registry connection. They don't solve the actual problem — that the content is scattered across ERP, Excel, PDF catalogs and suppliers, with duplicates and contradictions. Whoever postpones data consolidation until 'the time comes' starts the most labour-intensive phase while the 18-month clock is already running. Syntact builds the data foundation that can feed any passport provider afterwards — vendor-neutral.
- The DPP standards aren't final yet — isn't it too early?
- For the frontend decision (which passport provider, which format) waiting can be rational. For the data it is not: material composition, origin, unique identification and a duplicate-free product master will be needed in every conceivable standard. This work takes longer than the transition period in practice — and it pays off independently of the DPP, in your webshop, tenders and ERP.
- How does the free DPP readiness check work?
- Ten questions about your product data — system landscape, duplicates, attributes, supplier data, ownership. You answer them in about three minutes right on this page and immediately see your readiness score with your most critical gaps. No software installation, no sales call as a precondition. If you want to go deeper afterwards, we analyse your actual data situation in a free initial consultation.
- We've already done a PIM/MDM project — do we still need Syntact?
- A well-maintained PIM is a head start — but the DPP demands attributes that classic PIM models don't provide for, and data from suppliers who don't work in your PIM. Syntact complements existing systems: AI-driven extraction from catalogs, datasheets and certificates, duplicate and contradiction resolution, enrichment with source references. Your PIM stays authoritative — it finally gets filled completely.
- What does DPP preparation with Syntact cost?
- The readiness check is free, as is the initial consultation on your data situation. The platform starts at €800 per month — the licence only starts once you're in production, implementation covered by a 50/50 guarantee: if the pilot doesn't go into production, you pay only half. For comparison: mid-sized companies expect €21,500–43,000 of DPP investment according to the Forterro study — the difference is whether that budget flows into manual work or into a reusable data foundation.
- What about data protection and data sovereignty?
- Syntact runs GDPR-compliant in the EU — on request in your own cloud or on-premises. Your product data stays yours: permissions and audit logs at every level, no use of your data for third-party models. Only what the respective legal act requires ends up in the product passport — sensitive costing data stays internal.
The legal act is coming for sure. The question is how much lead time you'll have left.
Three minutes of readiness check today — instead of an eighteen-month data project against the clock once the transition period is already running.