Digital Product Passports in Fashion
With the EU’s ESPR and EPR regulations looming large, fashion brands are being driven to provide clear, auditable trails for every aspect of their products.
Generating a record that describes the product is one thing, but ensuring the information behind it accurately captures what was manufactured, shipped, received and sold is a different challenge altogether.
Everyone in fashion knows that products don’t always follow the original plan. Whether suppliers change, materials get substituted, or deliveries arrive under different conditions is almost irrelevant – what truly matters is capturing those deviations as part of the product’s history.
Yet, many Digital Product Passports (DPPs) are built around product information defined earlier in the lifecycle, often before the goods have been shipped and received.
As transparency and reporting expectations intensify, businesses need to know that their product records are faithful to not just what was intended, but also what happened.
The K3 Digital Product Passport addresses this by generating passports at goods receipt, when transport, sourcing, and delivery have taken place and can be accurately preserved as part of a versioned product history.
Generate versioned DPPs based on the actual product lifecycle
Any DPP worth its salt depends on data pulled directly from your product development and supply chain processes. Not every DPP waits until goods have been shipped and received before creating those records, though.
The same SKU could arrive via air and sea, or a supplier could subtitute a material to meet demand on time. These are normal occurrences but they do have implications.
When those changes are averaged, overwritten, lost, or not preserved as part of the product’s history, proving exactly what happened for reporting purposes becomes significantly harder.
Our approach fixes that.
Rather than creating a single static record, our DPPs are generated when goods are received into inventory, allowing the product record to detail what took place in the supply chain.
Every receipt creates its own versioned record to preserve historical information and maintain a clear audit trail over time. This allows you to:
- Preserve individual delivery histories
- Capture product, supplier and sustainability information tied to specific deliveries
- Maintain versioned records for audits and compliance activities
- Track provenance without overwriting historical data
- Surface DPPs internally and externally through QR codes and URLs
Equipped with complete and traceable product histories, you can be sure that the information you share with customers, partners, and regulators is backed up by the data.
Built for fashion. Native to Dynamics 365
Our DPP is built inside Dynamics 365 and K3 Fashion to pull information directly from your operational processes like purchase orders, production orders, and goods receipt – meaning you don’t have to introduce another platform that’s disconnected from your tech stack.
Each passport created is versioned complete with material compositions, origins, supplier information, compliance documentation and sustainability attributes readily available.