How can manufacturing supply chains become truly collaborative, digital, and circular?
The CIRCULOOS Supply Chain Orchestrator deliverables present the foundations and implementation of a key platform component designed to enable dynamic and sustainable manufacturing ecosystems. Together, Deliverables D3.1 and D3.2 describe how digital orchestration tools can support manufacturers in designing, executing, and monitoring collaborative supply chains built around circular economy principles.
The first stage introduces the concept of supply chain synthesis, in which manufacturing processes from different companies can be modelled and combined using Business Process Models (BPMs). By integrating the RAMP Marketplace with the Camunda workflow engine, companies can discover partners, evaluate suppliers, and establish new circular collaborations through structured processes such as the Vendor Onboarding Process, which assesses potential partners against risk and sustainability criteria before partnerships are formed.
Building on this foundation, the second deliverable presents the Process Orchestrator, a system that enables the execution and monitoring of collaborative manufacturing workflows using BPMN-based process modelling. The orchestrator coordinates tasks, data exchange, and decision-making across multiple actors while integrating with the CIRCULOOS Data Platform to capture lifecycle and sustainability data in real time. Demonstrations across the project’s wood, plastic, and leather pilots show how circular production processes, such as reuse, recycling, and remanufacturing, can be digitally orchestrated across supply chains.
Together, these developments illustrate how CIRCULOOS supports manufacturing SMEs in transitioning from isolated production environments to connected, data-driven, and circular supply chain ecosystems, enabling greater transparency, collaboration, and sustainability across industrial value chains.
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