Catena-X

Leveraging Catena-X successfully

The automotive industry is under pressure: increasing demands for transparency, sustainability, and data availability are colliding with IT landscapes and fragmented data structures that have evolved over decades. For the first time, Catena-X enables standardized data exchange across the entire supply chain.

For companies across the value chain, connecting to Catena-X is therefore no longer optional. It has become a prerequisite for remaining part of the supply chain at all. The greatest challenge, however, is not gaining access to the data space, but being able to provide their own data in the required format in the first place.

This is exactly where Consileon comes in: we combine Catena-X consulting and implementation, structure and automate your data, and ensure that it can be connected to the Catena-X ecosystem.

Catena-X: The Digital Backbone of the Automotive Industry

Catena-X is an open, collaborative data ecosystem that connects companies across the automotive value chain. It enables secure, standardized data exchange between OEMs, suppliers, recycling companies, and other ecosystem partners. All participants retain full control over their data, whether it relates to CO₂ certificates, battery passports, supplier information, or other business-critical assets. Catena-X helps companies increase transparency, improve process efficiency, and drive innovation across the entire automotive industry.

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Catena-X Connectivity: Consileon as Your Partner Along the Automotive Value Chain

Benefit from Consileon’s many years of automotive expertise. Whether you are an OEM or a tier-n supplier, we understand your processes, your system landscapes, and how data is created, used, and exchanged in day-to-day operations. For suppliers in particular, Catena-X can become a decisive success factor. We support you in unlocking its potential in a targeted way: from developing an initial understanding and establishing the technical connection to enabling productive data exchange. In doing so, we combine strategic, functional, and technical consulting across key areas of action. This ensures that your data can be structured, quality-assured, and integrated into processes, making it usable along the entire value chain.

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Building Know-How

Creating clarity quickly and empowering teams

Together with our team, you build the knowledge required to establish Catena-X within your organization, from governance structures and functional standards to roles and decision-making processes. We also support you in structuring the relevant requirements and clearly defining the necessary onboarding steps. This creates a solid foundation for your entry into Catena-X, reduces coordination effort, and accelerates decision-making. At the same time, it establishes a scalable knowledge base that minimizes risks related to compliance and supply chain requirements.

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Technical Enablement

Creating the foundation for stable data exchange

Once you have established the technical foundation for accessing the Catena-X data space with the support of our consultants, including components such as EDC (data space connector), DTR (digital twins), and Identity Services, we guide you through architectural decisions, the selection of suitable solutions, and the integrations required within your existing IT landscape. The result is stable, Catena-X-compliant data exchange across the entire supply chain. You avoid misinvestment, reduce integration effort, and build a future-ready infrastructure.

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Use-Case Selection

Achieve fast added value with the right use cases

With the support of experienced Consileon consultants, you identify specific Catena-X use cases such as Product Carbon Footprints (PCF), traceability, or certificate management, and prioritize them based on business value and feasibility. At the same time, we support you in analyzing your data landscape and defining a pragmatic MVP approach. This allows you to achieve measurable results quickly, secure the ROI of your Catena-X initiatives, and meet the requirements of your OEM customers at the same time. It also creates a solid foundation for scaling additional use cases.

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Data-Management

Structuring data and making it usable

Together with our experienced team, you ensure that data from your ERP, PLM, or MES systems is provided in a structured, consistent, and Catena-X-ready way. We also support you with mapping your data to Catena-X standards, establishing efficient ETL processes, and harmonizing heterogeneous data sources. This makes your data fully usable within the data space for the first time, in an automated, scalable, and economically efficient way. It reduces operational costs, improves the basis for decision-making, and strengthens the trust of OEMs and partners.

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05

App and Process Integration

Turning data into processes and realizing business value

To exchange data across the ecosystem, Catena-X applications must be integrated into your existing business processes and systems. We support you throughout this process, including the vendor-neutral selection of suitable solutions, and ensure seamless integration into your IT landscape. Thanks to open architectures and interoperable interfaces, you avoid vendor lock-in and create flexible, scalable processes. At the same time, you reduce process costs and generate sustainable business value in day-to-day operations.

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Efficient Data Exchange

From pilot to scalable operations

As the final step, you move your initial use cases into stable, productive data exchange with your partners across the Catena-X network. We also support you with the required testing, rollout, and the establishment of sustainable operating and maintenance processes. This ensures reliable data integration across the supply chain, helps you strengthen and maintain your position with OEMs, and creates the foundation for further growth, new business models, and continued scaling within the data space.

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Stronger Together: Consileon and GEC for Catena-X

Consileon and German Edge Cloud (GEC) combine their expertise to make access to the Catena-X ecosystem as simple and secure as possible for automotive suppliers. While Consileon supports companies with strategic consulting, TISAX know-how, and deep industry expertise, GEC provides the technological foundation for seamless Catena-X connectivity with the ONCITE Digital Production System (DPS) and the CX Gateway. Together, we enable suppliers to create transparency, security, and efficiency across the entire supply chain – from the initial process analysis to successful integration.

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Successfully implement Catena-X use cases in your organization – with Consileon’s automotive experts

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Traceability

Transparency for Resilient Supply Chains

For manufacturers and suppliers, end-to-end traceability of components is becoming a key success factor – to resolve quality issues faster, meet regulatory requirements, and strengthen supply chain resilience. Catena-X enables exactly this level of transparency: standardized, secure, and recognized across the industry. Consileon brings experience from numerous automotive projects and leverages proven partner solutions so you can achieve results quickly – without lengthy in-house development.

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Product Carbon Footprint

Making Sustainability Measurable

For the automotive industry, transparent recording of the CO₂ footprint across the value chain is of high importance. Catena-X provides a shared standard that enables emissions to be captured consistently, compared, and communicated to partners. This not only helps you meet regulatory requirements, but also lays the foundation for credible sustainability strategies. Consileon supports you with deep industry expertise and proven partner solutions to help you achieve reliable results quickly.

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Functional and Technical Catena-X Consulting – With Regulatory Requirements in Mind

Functional Consulting with Automotive Expertise

We speak the language of the automotive industry. Our experts understand the use cases, show you how to implement them, and work with you to unlock their potential – for fast, practical results.

Technical Expertise for Rapid Implementation

As a certified Catena-X partner, we rely on industry standards and certified solutions. This ensures efficient, resource-conscious, and sustainable integration.

Regulatory Requirements Considered from the Start

Whether sustainability, data security, or supply chain regulations: we take all relevant regulatory requirements into account from the very beginning. This ensures that your Catena-X project remains compliant and future-proof.

Rely on Certified Catena-X Expertise

Successfully connecting to Catena-X requires not only technical know-how, but also a deep understanding of the network’s processes and standards. As an officially certified Catena-X Advisory Provider, Consileon is trusted by the Catena-X Association and offers the tailored consulting and support you need for a secure and sustainable entry into the ecosystem. Our certified consultants help you master complex requirements and make your digital supply chain future-ready.

Schedule an Appointment Now and Unlock the Potential of Catena-X

Let’s explore together what role Catena-X can play for your organization and what a tailored entry could look like. In a non-binding introductory call, we will outline the ideal path with you – strategically, operationally, and technically.

Philipp Mostowys
Principal at Consileon
Philipp.Mostowys@consileon.de

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