Manage PPWR supplier data and evidence in a structured way
Capture and review supplier data and evidence for PPWR processes in a structured way, and assign them to packaging, components, and materials.
Some of the information companies need for packaging documentation does not originate in-house.
Material data, specifications, and other documents often come from suppliers.
The PPWR addresses exactly this information flow. Under Article 16, suppliers must provide the manufacturer with the information and documentation needed to demonstrate conformity of the packaging and packaging materials. This includes technical documentation where required under the applicable rules. Information may be provided on paper or electronically.
For companies, this creates a practical task: How do supplier data reach the right packaging, the right component, and the related evidence?
PakPruvo integrates supplier data and evidence into the existing packaging process.
Not legal advice and no automatic conformity determination. Content review and approval remain with the responsible company.
Why are supplier data important for the PPWR process?
Not all packaging details can be generated internally.
Information on materials, compositions, or other properties often comes from the supplier of the packaging or packaging material.
This also includes documents that record or evidence those details.
The PPWR expressly requires suppliers of packaging or packaging materials to provide the information and documentation needed to demonstrate conformity.
Supplier data therefore become part of the data basis on which further processes build.
Supplier → packaging data → evidence → technical documentation → Declaration of Conformity
How can supplier data be captured in PakPruvo?
PakPruvo makes it possible to request the required packaging information from the supplier and then take it into your own packaging data record.
Supplier data can be reviewed before they enter the downstream process.
Details do not have to be gathered again for every case from emails, spreadsheets, or individual files.
The information stays linked to the relevant packaging data.
Which supplier data can be relevant for packaging?
Which details are needed depends on the packaging and the requirements that apply to it.
PakPruvo can structure packaging at component level and manage material information such as:
- Material
- Weight
- Material composition
- Material shares
- Recyclate share
- multi-layer composite structure
Supply-chain information can therefore be placed where it belongs: with the relevant packaging or packaging component.
How is evidence managed in PakPruvo?
Supplier data and evidence are not the same thing.
A data value describes, for example, a material or a property. A related document can record the origin or basis of that information.
PakPruvo therefore supports structured management of evidence.
This can include, for example:
- test reports
- specifications
- certificates
- declarations
- other relevant documents
Evidence can be captured in PakPruvo and assigned in a subject-matter way.
Assignment can refer to product, packaging, component, material, or supplier.
It remains clear which part of the packaging data record a document belongs to.
Why is a plain document archive not enough?
A PDF in a folder is initially just a file.
For the ongoing packaging process, further questions matter:
Which packaging does the document belong to?
Which component does it concern?
Which supplier did it come from?
Which material detail is it assigned to?
Is the document still current?
The larger the assortment and the more suppliers involved, the harder it becomes to track these relationships through folder structures and file names alone.
PakPruvo therefore links documents to their subject-matter context.
What happens when a supplier changes?
Packaging data do not stay unchanged forever.
A supplier may change. Materials may be adjusted. A packaging component may be altered, or new evidence may replace a previous version.
Saving only the latest file is then not enough.
It must remain clear which data state belongs to which packaging version.
PakPruvo therefore connects packaging data, evidence, and versions within the same process.
Changes can be traced without simply overwriting earlier document states.
How do supplier data and technical documentation relate?
Technical documentation is the basis for assessing packaging conformity.
Annex VII of the PPWR describes the requirements for this documentation. Article 16 also makes clear that suppliers must provide the manufacturer with the information and documents needed to demonstrate conformity.
In practice, two data worlds meet: internal packaging data and information and documents from the supply chain.
PakPruvo brings these together in one shared process.
From supplier information to the Declaration of Conformity
One possible data flow looks like this:
Supplier → supplier data → packaging and component → material data → evidence → technical documentation → review and approval → Declaration of Conformity
The PPWR process therefore does not begin only when a document is created.
The data and documents that document is based on are already linked in a structured way beforehand.
Can PakPruvo automatically assess the information legally?
No.
PakPruvo structures data, evidence, documents, and versions and makes them available for downstream processes.
The software does not replace subject-matter or legal review and does not automatically determine whether packaging meets all PPWR requirements that apply to it.
Content, review, and approval remain with the responsible company.
Why not manage supplier data separately from packaging data?
Supplier data are not a separate side process.
They belong to the packaging they relate to.
That is why PakPruvo connects:
Packaging data record → components → materials → supplier data → evidence → documentation → Declaration of Conformity → version
The link between information, source, packaging, and document is preserved.