Onboarding
You can participate in the Catena-X data ecosystem in various roles. Become acquainted with the foundational building blocks of Catena-X and how all participants collaborate within a global ecosystem by reading the Whitepaper describing the Catena-X operating model.
Actors willing to use the Catena-X DCM standard, and start a collaboration with other supply chain partners enabled by an interoperable solution, can prepare asking the IT colleagues to check the following End-to-End Adopter Journey.
Roles
Within DCM customer and supplier both act as data provider and data consumer. In order to execute the DCM process they utilize an application from the Catena-X marketplace, provided by a business application provider or they use their own custom in-house solution.
Data Providers and Data Consumers
Onboarding
| # | Requirement | Further details |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subscribe to Catena-X | General Onboarding One Pager |
| 2 | Subscribe to an operating company | Cofinity-X Onboarding |
| 3 | Deploy a Catena-X certified dataspace connector | Depending on your adoption strategy you will be provided one or you might have to deploy one yourself |
| 4 | Deploy a Catena-X certified business application | See adoption strategy |
| 5 | Get certified and sign framework agreements | The kind of certification depends on your adoption strategy |
| 6 | Deploy an SSI wallet for the credentials from the certification and framework agreement process | Depending on your adoption strategy you will be provided one or you might have to deploy one yourself |
Adoption Strategy
If you are interested in utilizing DCM within the Catena-X dataspace you can follow one of the following three approaches.
| # | Approach | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COTS | Purchase a certified Commercial Off The Shelf solution via the Catena-X marketplace, accessible through your operating company (e.g. Cofinity-X Marketplace) |
| 2 | FOSS | Adopt, customize and deploy an existing Free and Open Source Software Solution |
| 3 | CUSTOM | Adopt and integrate the business logic, aspect models and APIs, as described in the DCM standard, yourself |
Business Application Providers
Onboarding
Business Application Providers that want to enable their commercial software for Catena-X DCM need to register for the Catena-X Ecosystem following the specific information described in Offering a Catena-X Solution (including next steps & contacts).
Please refer to the Catena-X Library for the newest version of the DCM as well as other standards.
Software Developers
https://catena-x.net/en/tractus-x-1
https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/
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