The Circle — Ecochain Roundtable Sessions
The data you don’t own: working with suppliers on product footprinting
A small-group conversation for practitioners whose footprint mostly sits in someone else’s factory.
Most of your product’s impact happens long before the material reaches your door. Which means most of your LCA rests on data you can’t generate yourself, and you have to ask for it.
Requests go unanswered. Spreadsheets come back half-filled, or filled with numbers nobody can trace back to a source. Some suppliers treat process data as commercially sensitive. Others genuinely don’t have it. And if you’re not a major account, you don’t have much leverage to push with.
Meanwhile the requirements keep tightening. PCF requests from customers, EPDs for tenders, digital product passports on the horizon, all of them landing on the same fragile foundation of supplier data.
This session is about what actually works.
What you might bring to the table
The Circle runs on the questions people show up with. A few that would land well in this one:
- „How do I actually ask?“ — the templates, formats and framings that get a usable response and how much hand-holding suppliers really need
- „What do I do when the data doesn’t come back?“ — working with proxies, regional datasets, worst-case assumptions or a distribution across suppliers, and being honest about it in the model
- „How do I get taken seriously as a small account?“ — when your suppliers are large, your volumes aren’t, and product footprint questions go to the bottom of their pile
- „How do I stop starting from scratch every time?“ — building something continuous rather than a fresh data hunt for every LCA, and what PACT, CPR and the DPP framework will and won’t solve for you
- „How do I know what I get is any good?“ — quality, traceability and verification, when there’s no mandate forcing anyone to be precise
- „How do I model this without over-engineering it?“ — structuring your model so multiple suppliers, changing sourcing and different transport routes are parameters, not rebuilds
Bring the one you’re stuck on. That’s the session.
How it works
The Circle is Ecochain’s peer roundtable series: small, focused, and off the record. Every session is co-hosted by Ecochain, navigating real customer challenges. No slide marathon, no recording — just practitioners comparing notes on what’s actually working.
🗓 Tuesday 22 September 2026 · 12:00–13:00 CEST · Google Meet · Max 20 seats
Seats are limited to keep the conversation genuinely interactive. Once it’s full, it’s full.
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