One packaging, many markets
You describe a carton, film and filling material once as packaging with components and material shares. You use the same packaging for products, load carriers and shipping without creating it as an item.
Features · Security & compliance
Packaging and PPWR
In Workspace, you maintain each packaging once: components, materials, masses and evidence. You assign market rules, such as the included profile for the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), per legal entity and market. When packing, Workspace records the basis on which a parcel left your premises.
Included in: Workspace
What Workspace organises for you
Observe rules first
A market rule initially runs in Observe mode and only reports what is still missing. Only when your team has completed the checks do you deliberately switch to Block.
Shipping with a memory
On packing completion, Workspace saves a fixed decision with the parcel structure, material version, roles and evidence. Even months later, you can see the basis on which a shipment was made.
Quantities for the report
Every package shipped books material and mass into a quantity journal. From this, you freeze a reporting period and export it as JSON or CSV.
From packaging to report
You create the packaging with components, materials and facts and store documents such as technical documentation and the declaration of conformity.
You approve the revision, facts and documents through the associated compliance checks.
You assign the eu.ppwr profile to a legal entity and a market, first in Observe mode, and after approval in Block mode.
The packing station records the packages, Workspace saves the shipping decision and books the quantities for your report.
What you can rely on
Approved revisions and facts remain unchanged. For a change, you create a new revision; earlier shipping decisions keep the version that applied at the time.
You assess who counts as producer or manufacturer for a packaging per market, sales channel and recipient. When packing, Workspace uses only the assessment that exactly matches the case.
With an overlay, you extend or tighten the included profile for your company. It cannot be relaxed.
For a permissible shipping decision, Workspace extends the retention of linked evidence to at least five years, and to ten years for reusable packaging.
You correct quantity errors with a reversing entry. A frozen report does not change as a result of later bookings.
You only link an environmental claim to a product if it has been checked and is based on valid facts.
Clearly defined scope
Workspace supplies eu.ppwr for the 27 EU member states as its first rule profile. Further markets require their own profiles. For Germany, Workspace creates a checked draft report from a frozen period; your team submits it in the responsible portal itself and then confirms the submission in Workspace.
Workspace documents data, checks and decisions. It does not transmit anything to national registers, does not calculate fees and does not manage authorised representatives. The legal assessment remains with your responsible staff and advisers.
Works together with
Shipping and returns
The packing station at which Workspace records the shipping decision.
View shippingCompliance and evidence
Checks, deadlines and evidence to which your packaging data is linked.
View evidenceProduct data
Products, variants and packaging levels to which you assign packaging.
View product dataFrequently asked questions
Which markets are rules available for?
The eu.ppwr profile for the 27 EU member states is included. It does not apply to other markets such as Switzerland or the United Kingdom; a separate profile would be needed for them.
Does Workspace make us PPWR-compliant?
Workspace records your packaging data, checks and shipping decisions traceably. Whether a packaging meets the requirements is assessed by your responsible staff and advisers, with all records to hand.
Does Workspace report our quantities to the register?
No. For Germany, Workspace creates a checked draft report for export. You submit it in the portal yourself and then record the report number and proof in Workspace.
What does it cost?
We give you the price in an offer, because it depends on the scope of your project.
Let’s organise your packaging together
Bring a typical shipment, from the product to the shipping carton. We show you how packaging, market rule and shipping decision come together in Workspace.