Implementation Plans

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UNTP is a collection of specifications that work together to enhance traceability and transparency in global supply chains. But each stakeholder type plays a different role and so will implement different subsets of UNTP. This page provides more specific implementation guidance for each stakeholder type. The general steps of confirming business value, choosing solutions, registering intent, testing, and registering implementation apply to all and are not repeated here.

For Producers Manufacturers and Brands

Meet your supply chain due diligence obligations and provide evidence to your customers that allows them to meet their own obligations.

Step	Action	Outcome
1	Choose a relevant UNTP industry extension or lobby your member association to develop a new extension	Industry-wide consensus
2	Choose a UNTP compatible software solution or engage your ICT department to implement UNTP using our free reference implementation	Technology-ready
3	Push your suppliers to issue UNTP DPP, DFR with linked DCC credentials	Meet your supply chain due-diligence obligations
4	Issue a digital facility record for each facility you own/operate	Your customers can verify sustainability performance of your production facilities
5	Issue a digital product passport for each product (and optionally each export market) that you ship from your facilities	Your customers can verify sustainability performance of your products
6	Choose conformity assessment bodies that can issue digital conformity credentials that attest your conformance with relevant schemes and regulations.	Prove your product and facility conformity
7a	Issue digital traceability events to link your manufactured products to the input components or materials used	Your customers can verify your product origin/traceability
7b	Where traceability information is commercially sensitive, request a trusted third party (eg a conformity assessment body or your member association) to assess traceability data and issue an independent guarantee of origin conformity credential	Your customers can trust an independent assessment of origin
8	Request identity anchor credentials from your national business/trademark/land register and link them to your issuer decentralised identifier	Reduce counterfeiting risk and prove your identity

For Member Associations

Activate communities to participate in transparent and traceable value chains by governing the design and maintenance of UNTP industry extensions.

Step	Action	Outcome
1	Review the UNTP Community Activation Program to understand the business case for creating a community extension, the stakeholder roles, and scope of work	Case for extension is made
2	Establish an extension governance group that includes relevant representation from member organisations and other relevant stakeholders. Define the high level scope of your extension and register it as a proposed UNTP extension	New extension plan is registered
3	Following the extensions methodology and using existing registered extensions as examples, develop the extension specification draft as a public website and related testing and implementation support tools.	Extension draft available as public website
4	Complete pilot testing with early implementers of your extension specification. Update the extension specification with lessons learned from pilots and release a final version for widespread adoption.	Tested final version released
5	Scale up implementations across your community and track impact and value, reporting summary KPIs to UNTP according to the value assessment framework	Quantifiable value achieved

For Registry Operators

Empower your members with verifiable identity and identifiers as signposts to verifiable data.

Step	Action	Outcome
1	Implement the Identity Anchor specification	Registry members can prove that they are the genuine controller of the registered identity.
2	Implement the Identity Resolver specification	registered members can prove their identity and link discoverable credentials such as Product Passports, Facility Records to their product or facility identifiers.
3	Register the implementation	Verifiers can confirm not only the member identity but also that the register itself is legitimate

For Scheme Owners

Make compliance with your scheme digitally verifiable.

Step	Action	Outcome
1	Describe your existing schemes and criteria as a digital Sustainability Vocabulary Catalog	conformity criteria can be referenced by issuers of claims in Product Passports and assessments in Conformity Credentials
2	Provide sample Conformity Credentials that reference scheme criteria and represent what CABs are expected to issue.	Samples are available that simplify implementation for Conformity Assessment Bodies (CAB)

For Regulators

Make compliance with your regulations digitally verifiable.

Step	Action	Outcome
1	Publish your existing regulations and criteria as Sustainability Vocabulary Catalog	Conformity criteria can be referenced by issuers of regulatory compliance claims in Product Passports and assessments in Conformity Credentials
2	Issue regulatory permits, licenses, and certificates as Digital Conformity Credentials	Exporters can prove their compliance to customers and other authorities.
3	Establish digital verification framework for imports including Product Passports, Conformity Credentials and Identity Anchors	Automate border compliance and risk assessments with higher identity integrity and reduced piggybacking

For Conformity Assessment Bodies

Make your third party conformity assessments digitally verifiable.

Step	Action	Outcome
1	Issue Digital Conformity Credentials that attest conformity with schemes or regulations following examples published by scheme owners	Your customers can digitally prove conformity of their products or facilities.

For Software Vendors

Empower your customers to participate in sustainable value chains. For software vendors, the specific UNTP (or extension) implementation requirements will depend on your customer role and needs.

Software type	Action	Outcome
Verifiable credential / identity platforms	Support Verifiable Credentials Profile and Digital Identity Anchor	Your software libraries are easily integrated with business software systems to support UNTP implementations
Traceability platforms	Follow links to find and verify product passports, facility records, traceability events, and conformity credentials to construct transparency graphs representing n-tier traceable supply chain	your customers have the data to meet their due diligence and compliance reporting requirements.
Production Management Systems (PMS) or ERP systems	Issue facility records, product passports, and traceability events that describe the manufacturing facilities, manufactured products, and upstream materials.	Your customer can link high integrity sustainability information to their products and facilities.

For Consumers

Scan data carriers, view digital product passports, make purchase decisions.