Digital Product Passport, EUDR, proof of supply chain: anyone who has to meet these requirements needs product data based on GS1 standards. benelog implements the full range of these standards: GS1 Digital Link, GS1 Conformant Resolver, EPCIS 2.0, and GS1 Web Vocabulary.
Implementing the Digital Product Passport or delivering supply chain records does not require development capacity of your own. Working with benelog means consulting and implementation wherever you need it, plus a partner model for anyone who wants to build OpenEPCIS into their own offering.
Assessment, roadmap and technical integration from a single source.
Integrate OpenEPCIS into your own offering as a white-label solution.
Digital Product Passport and EPCIS as a ready-made cloud solution. Operated and maintained by benelog.
As a GS1 partner, benelog sees early on where the standards are heading. That head start reaches customers: the solution grows along with the requirements, and customers stay interoperable instead of chasing developments. Whatever changes in the standard has already been accounted for at benelog before it reaches the customer.
benelog actively helps shape the EPCIS standard. Sven Böckelmann, Tech Lead at benelog, co-chairs the relevant GS1 working group, the Visibility Standards Maintenance Group.
Our implementation of the GS1 EPCIS standard
Where a product has been and what happened to it becomes traceable and can be shared across company boundaries, without every partner having to run a system of its own. Because EPCIS 2.0 is internationally ratified and belongs to no single vendor, your data stays connectable even as your system landscape changes.
Whether it is a reporting obligation or a product passport: these requirements attach to the individual product. Its path has to be traceable and provable between partners. That is exactly what OpenEPCIS is built for.
Every building block of OpenEPCIS builds on a GS1 standard of its own, none of them is an in-house invention.
Since 2016 we have contributed the data platform to several funded research projects, the platform through which measurement, analysis and supply chain data come together between the partners on the basis of open GS1 standards. Each partner keeps control over their own data. The topics range from verifying the authenticity of food to AI-assisted shelf life prediction.
Determining the freshness and shelf life of fruit along the supply chain through digital twins and an EPCIS 2.0 repository.
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AI-supported spoilage prediction for meat products using digital twins.
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Traceability and authenticity testing of traditional Mediterranean foods such as honey and cheese.
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Verifying the authenticity of food through its chemical fingerprint.
Learn moreTraceability does not come about inside a single company. That is why we work together with renowned research institutions, standardisation bodies and industry partners in joint projects. The institutions and companies below are part of this network.
benelog has been building software for more than twenty years, and for more than ten of those around the GS1 standards. In that time we have not only worked with those standards but helped shape them through our work in GS1 working groups. We command the full range of GS1 standards, from GS1 Digital Link through the GS1 Conformant Resolver to EPCIS 2.0, and we apply them where they are needed: in traceability, in the Digital Product Passport and in regulatory evidence.
As authors, in interviews, or as a subject: benelog regularly appears in the trade media, covering EPCIS, GS1 standards, and the Digital Product Passport.
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Treating every new requirement as a separate project deepens silos and drives up follow-on costs. Why data architecture is becoming a strategic management task.
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Rising regulatory requirements are putting supplier relationship management in the spotlight. It becomes a core function where supplier data is reliable, current and unambiguous for every system.
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Materials can only circulate if their information circulates with them. Why the circular economy needs an information loop alongside the material loop. By Sven Böckelmann.
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New regulations are making supply chain transparency mandatory. The article shows how companies use EPCIS 2.0 to produce auditable evidence and, at the same time, put their supply chain data to work for better purchasing decisions. With Thomas Hirsch as a voice from practice.
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The Digital Product Passport is taking concrete shape, and classic product data is no longer enough. Sven Böckelmann explains why the new EU standards turn the DPP into an architectural task, and what role semantic data models, linked data and knowledge graphs play in it.
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Supplier relationship management is moving from an administrative process to a steering function. How EPCIS 2.0 and the GS1 Web Vocabulary make supplier data unambiguous, comparable and auditable. By Thomas Hirsch.
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New EU standards shift the focus of the Digital Product Passport from merely providing data towards semantic data models that machines understand directly. Sven Böckelmann explains why this turns into an architecture task for many companies.
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The Digital Product Passport is more than a compliance obligation. Thomas Hirsch shows why companies should treat it as a strategic transformation task and how to align their data structures with it early on.
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Rising regulatory requirements are bringing supply chains into sharper focus. Thomas Hirsch shows how companies can make their supplier data unambiguous, comparable and auditable with standardised supplier relationship management, EPCIS 2.0 and the GS1 Web Vocabulary.
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Why the Digital Product Passport is driven by regulation and can only be implemented through the interplay of EPCIS 2.0 and the GS1 Web Vocabulary. The article positions benelog's OpenEPCIS as an open building block of that architecture.
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The Digital Product Passport is more than a compliance obligation. Thomas Hirsch shows why companies should treat it as a strategic transformation task and how to align their data structures with it early on.
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How EPCIS 2.0 meets the regulatory obligation for traceability and, beyond that, becomes usable for steering processes, emissions and costs. With OpenEPCIS as an example of a standard-conformant transparency solution.
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Why transparency in supply chains is moving from a regulatory obligation to a strategic advantage, and how sustainability, processes and costs can be managed with EPCIS 2.0.
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Transparency in supply chains starts out as a regulatory obligation. The article shows how EPCIS 2.0 turns it into an opportunity: as the basis for data-driven control, sustainability assessment and well-founded decisions along the entire supply chain.
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Global supply chains are under regulatory and operational pressure. Thomas Hirsch shows how companies can move from mere proof obligations to active control with EPCIS 2.0, and use transparency as a competitive advantage.
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How digital twins and an EPCIS 2.0 repository make the spoilage of meat predictable along the supply chain. With Imke Schröer and Sven Böckelmann as co-authors.
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How freshness data can be exchanged in real time along the supply chain using EPCIS 2.0, and what that means for the freshness management of fruit and vegetables. A joint article by benelog and tsenso.
