Costs · honest ranges
The uncomfortable truth first: a serious answer only exists per company – anyone quoting a price without looking at your data and volumes is guessing. What can be said: which cost blocks exist, which five factors drive them, and the ranges real projects fall into. That is exactly what this page covers.
01 — Cost blocks
When people say “DPP costs” they usually mean the software – yet software is rarely the biggest block.
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Readiness check, gap analysis, data audit, data model. With us these are fixed-price packages – you learn the exact price after a short conversation about portfolio and scope, before you commit and with no surprises. This block determines whether every following euro is spent in the right place.
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From a few hundred euros per month for lean SaaS solutions to six-figure enterprise projects. What matters is the pricing model (per SKU, per passport, flat) against your real volumes – details on the DPP software page.
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ERP/PIM interfaces, identifier logic, supply-chain data collection, Excel replacement. The most underestimated block – and the one with the widest range: from a few consulting days to a multi-month integration project, depending on your landscape.
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Data maintenance, registration processes, adaptation to new delegated acts, software subscriptions. Budget the passport as a process, not a project – forget operations and you will pay for the project twice.
02 — Cost drivers
Two companies in the same industry can differ by a factor of ten on DPP costs. It almost always comes down to these five points:
A structured ERP/PIM landscape with maintained material master data makes DPP readiness fine-tuning. Excel islands and PDF certificates make data consolidation the main cost item – regardless of any software.
A passport per model is far cheaper than per batch or per item (as with the battery passport): item-level passports require integration with production and serial-number systems.
With per-SKU or per-passport pricing, your article count determines the software cost in year three – 200 SKUs are a different world from 20,000.
A modern ERP with open APIs integrates in days; grown legacy systems without interfaces need middleware layers – this is where the expensive surprises live.
The more tiers between you and the raw material (and the less cooperative the suppliers), the more expensive data collection becomes – often the longest single item.
Understood. Tell us your industry, rough article count and system landscape – you will get a free initial budget assessment and a fixed price for the readiness check.
03 — Context
DPP costs are not a fixed quantity – they rise with time pressure:
Then there is the return: the same data foundation serves customer enquiries, tenders and sustainability reporting – the investment pays back several times over, as described on the DPP data management page. And whether you need to invest at all is answered by the free readiness check in two minutes.
04 — FAQ
The first consultation including an initial budget assessment is free. The structured readiness check is a manageable fixed-price package – we quote the exact price after a short conversation about portfolio and systems, because it depends on scope. After that you know what is coming – and what is not.
Because any serious figure depends on data maturity, granularity, SKU count, systems and supply chain – and a fantasy flat rate would either make you overpay or force us to cut quality. The cost blocks and ranges on this page, however, are real.
Rarely. For most mid-sized companies, data work and integration dominate: consolidating material data, obtaining supply-chain evidence, building interfaces. The software is replaceable – your data foundation is not.
Partly. Data maintenance and supplier communication belong to you anyway. External support pays off where specialist knowledge is needed (legal landscape per product group, EN standards, the software market) or where work is one-off (data model, integration). Defining that split is part of the readiness check – and saves budget in itself.
Directly DPP-specific programmes are rare, but national and regional digitalisation and consulting grants can apply depending on company size. We raise this in the first call if your project looks eligible – though we naturally cannot promise funding.
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