Compliance data infrastructure
CBAM Shared Data Platform
A shared evidence workflow for carbon border compliance, built to reduce supplier friction and improve audit readiness.
Challenge
CBAM reporting creates a coordination problem across importers, suppliers, advisors, and auditors. Critical emissions evidence is often trapped in spreadsheets, email threads, and local supplier systems, which makes audit readiness difficult to prove.
Approach
Defined a shared operating layer for supplier submissions, evidence collection, emission factor governance, exception management, and validation states. The product model emphasizes traceability, progressive data quality, and clear ownership.
Impact
Created a platform path that helps organizations move from reactive compliance collection to a controlled evidence workflow, reducing ambiguity for suppliers and giving leadership a clearer view of exposure.
Evidence, emissions data, and validation status organized into one operating view.
A shared collection and review flow for importers, suppliers, and advisors.
Missing, weak, or unverified inputs surfaced early enough to act.
System diagram
CBAM Shared Data Platform as an operating flow.
Executive memo
The boardroom version: decision, operating model, impact.
How can importers move CBAM readiness from spreadsheet chase to governed evidence workflow?
A shared data platform with supplier submissions, evidence objects, validation states, exception queues, and leadership exposure views.
Improves audit readiness by surfacing missing, weak, or unverified evidence early enough for named owners to act.
A readiness view that shows which suppliers, products, and reporting periods are clean, blocked, or at risk.
Risks reduced
Business value
The commercial reason this work matters.
Buyer problem
What the market needed to understand.
Procurement teams need supplier data without creating endless email follow-up.
Sustainability and compliance teams need confidence in the evidence chain.
Executives need an exposure view before gaps become regulatory or commercial risk.
System Thesis
The hardest part of CBAM readiness is not only calculation. It is trust in the evidence chain. A useful platform must help each participant know what is required, what is missing, and what is ready to stand behind.
Design Moves
Created a modular data model for facilities, products, embedded emissions, supporting documents, reporting periods, and validation status.
Framed workflows around supplier confidence: guided collection, exception queues, review states, and clear evidence requirements.
What It Changed
The platform concept gives compliance, procurement, and sustainability leaders a shared operational view of readiness instead of a disconnected reporting scramble at deadline time.
My role
The direct contribution.
Artifacts produced
The work products that made the strategy usable.
Operating model
How the system moves from signal to action.
Guide suppliers through required facility, product, emissions, and document inputs.
Route incomplete or weak evidence into exception queues with named ownership.
Track validation status by reporting period and product family.
Give leadership a live view of readiness, risk, and unresolved supplier gaps.