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Readiness check
Applicability per assortment and role, data situation, systems – compactly assessed, with a report and a prioritised roadmap.
DPP Consulting · Cologne & the Rhineland
Digital Product Passport consulting in Cologne.
Retail headquarters, consumer-goods brands, chemical parks along the Rhine and a long-standing automotive hub: Cologne’s economy touches almost every ESPR product group. We make your product data passport-ready – in a workshop with you in the Rhineland or fully remote. English-speaking teams welcome, including international companies doing business in Germany and the EU.
- On siteWorkshops & data audits at your premises in Cologne
- RemoteOngoing project work without travel
- 18 Feb 2027Battery passport – the first hard deadline
- FreeFirst consultation & initial assessment
01 — Cologne
Why the product passport hits Cologne especially hard.
Cologne combines retail, the consumer-goods industry and the process industry in close proximity – and the Digital Product Passport affects each of these roles differently:
- Retail & consumer goods: Cologne’s retail headquarters and brand manufacturers face a double obligation – as the party placing private-label products on the market and as the controlling instance for listed third-party products. From textiles to furniture, the core assortments are on the ESPR working plan.
- The Rhineland chemicals region: The chemical parks along the Rhine supply plastics, additives and precursors into almost every DPP-obligated value chain. Anyone who does not cleanly document substances of concern becomes a data risk for their customers.
- Automotive hub: Vehicle manufacturing and suppliers in the Cologne area are hit by the battery passport (fixed, 18 Feb 2027) as well as the expected delegated acts for steel (2026) and tyres (2027).
- Trade-fair city: Exhibitors at Cologne’s leading trade fairs show products to a European audience – and are increasingly asked there about circularity data, recycled content and their DPP roadmap.
02 — Services
DPP services for Cologne-based companies.
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Data audit & data model
An inventory across ERP, PIM and merchandise management; a DPP data model per EN 18219 for your product groups.
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Supply-chain data sourcing
Collect material data, recycled content and conformity evidence from suppliers in a structured way – with templates and clear processes.
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Systems integration & software selection
ERP and PIM connections, vendor-neutral selection of the right DPP software – with no commission interests.
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Pilot product passport
A working passport for a real product from your assortment: identifier, QR code, data, registration process.
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On-site workshops
A DPP briefing for management, procurement and compliance – at your offices in the Rhineland.
Rhineland-pragmatic: talk first, calculate later.
Message us on WhatsApp with the assortments you are responsible for in Cologne – you will get a first, honest assessment today.
03 — FAQ
Frequently asked questions from Cologne.
Do you come to Cologne for appointments?
Yes. We are happy to run kick-offs, data audits and workshops with you in Cologne, Bonn or Leverkusen. Subsequent project work runs remote – efficient and without travel-cost surcharges.
We are a chemicals supplier without an end product – does the DPP affect us at all?
Indirectly, but massively: your customers need material compositions, substances-of-concern declarations and carbon data from you to fill their own passports. Those who can deliver this data secure customer relationships; those who cannot risk delisting. Pharmaceuticals themselves are exempt from the ESPR – chemicals as an upstream supplier are not.
As a retail headquarters with private labels: where do we start?
With role clarification and an assortment screening: which private labels fall into which product group, when does the respective delegated act arrive, where does the data live today? That yields a roadmap that lets you start with the earliest assortments – textiles, for instance.
From when do Cologne companies have to deliver?
Batteries: fixed, 18 Feb 2027. Iron & steel: delegated act expected 2026. Textiles, tyres, aluminium: expected late 2026/2027, with the obligation roughly 18 months later in each case. Furniture 2028, mattresses 2029. Details in the timeline.
Contact
DPP consulting for Cologne – let’s talk.
On site in the Rhineland or remote: tell us your industry and assortment, and we will get back to you with an honest first assessment – usually the same day.
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Two sentences about your industry and product group are enough – we usually reply within 24 hours on business days.