T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG, is working with the BMW Group to connect suppliers worldwide to the Catena-X data ecosystem. The company acts as a certified implementation partner and helps suppliers join Catena-X regardless of their size or digital capabilities. T-Systems provides support from initial consultation through to successful data exchange.
Catena-X is designed to improve collaboration within the automotive industry by offering standardized and interoperable solutions for supply chains. The platform aims to make supply chains more resilient, transparent, and sustainable while reducing costs. It also streamlines quality processes by centralizing master data and certificate management, which helps avoid duplication of effort.
Oliver Ganser, Vice President Digitalization of the Purchasing and Supplier Network at the BMW Group, said: “Through Catena-X’s radically new approach to collaboration, we, the BMW Group and our partners, will optimize our value creation processes in terms of sustainability, security of supply, and quality – while also saving costs.”
Ferri Abolhassan, CEO of T-Systems and member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG, added: “Catena-X is an important building block for secure data exchange for companies. As a founding member of Catena-X, we have always believed in collaborative data infrastructures and have been involved from the very beginning. Only control over their own data guarantees companies’ security, data protection, and economic independence.”
The technology behind Catena-X relies on a federated data space architecture. This means that partners maintain full control over their own information by granting specific access rights without storing it centrally in the cloud. Instead, a cloud-based instance mediates exchanges while actual transfers occur directly between participants in a peer-to-peer process.
T-Systems will showcase its solutions related to this initiative at the IAA event in Munich.
