Riaan Kleynhans

Industry Scan

Supplier Resilience Scan

For manufacturers: which critical suppliers could stop production, who watches them, and what happens after a warning sign. Facts in, the register and the priced Scan out.

Fictional demo: Muster Antriebswerk — a fictional automotive plant. Every name and figure is invented.

Playbook: fictional demo

Why now · the market, sourced

Catena-X moves the data. The apps closest to a line stop are the thinnest.

Active participants, Sep 2026
1,085
Report, p. 6
Uptime, last 90 days
99.994 %
Report, p. 15
Days to onboard: first 100 → latest 100
175 → 15
Report, p. 15
New entities joining through a company already connected
~3 / 4
Report, p. 12

Accredited app providers per use case

As listed in the report, p. 14. Providers may serve more than one use case.

  1. Digital Twin Registry · technical enabler20
  2. EDC Connector · technical enabler18
  3. Product Carbon Footprint13
  4. Company Certificate Management8
  5. Digital Product Passport6
  6. Traceability4
  7. Demand and Capacity Management3
  8. Quality Management2
  9. Short Term Supply Management (PURIS)2
  10. Business Partner Data Management1

The three use cases nearest a production stop: demand and capacity, quality, short-term supply.

Catena-X moves the data. The Scan makes sure someone sees the warning, decides in time, and can prove it.

Source: as of 2026-09-07. The report's economic figures (up to 7 % EBIT uplift, p. 16) are modelled, not realized, as the report itself states. Catena-X — State of the Network 2026

Frameworks that apply

Stage 1 · Discover → Stage 2 · Diagnose

Then how ready and how exposed you are, scored against what is recorded.

Diagnose