Evidence your supply chain data can be AI-ready. AI-ready data begins here.

AI procurement agents, ERP automation and digital sourcing tools are only as reliable as the data they use.

ECCMA-certified ISO 25500 conformance is independent evidence that your company knows how to format its supply chain data to ISO 25500, the international standard for supply chain interoperability and integration.

Certification is the evidence. Standardized data delivers the benefits.

For suppliers, manufacturers and vendors whose data must be trusted by buyer systems, with or without AI.

Shows that your company is able to provide catalog, supplier profile and facility data that buyer systems and AI procurement agents can understand and trust.

ECCMA-certified ISO 25500 conformance - Type 1, AI-ready data
ECCMA-certified ISO 25500 conformance - Type 2, automation ready data

Shows that your systems are able to securely exchange and verify automated supply chain data with other systems, using the ISO 25500 API. This is how companies take part in the Industrial Internet.

Trusted, standardized, AI-ready data

Verified item/supplier identity, every system

Supplier onboarding: weeks to hours

Purchase order errors minimized

TWO CERTIFICATION TIERS, ONE STANDARD

ECCMA-certified ISO 25500 conformance is a data assessment. Successful certification entitles the organization to display the ECCMA-certified ISO 25500 conformance mark.

ECCMA-certified ISO 25500 conformance - Type 1, AI-ready data

TYPE 1 — SUPPLY CHAIN INTEROPERABILITY, AI-READY DATA

$500

Scope: data format and structure conformance

What Type 1 shows

Your company knows how to format its supply chain data to ISO 25500. Data in this format is data that buyer systems and AI procurement agents can understand and trust. This includes your catalog, your supplier profile and your compliance records.

What changes with Type 1 certification and standardized data

  • Wrong-part errors minimized: buyers check item specifications with you before they order.
  • Clear supplier and facility identity across buyers’ ERP systems, business units and borders.
  • Catalog data loads into buyer systems in a standard format, with less cleaning and reformatting.
  • Clearer, audit-ready data that supports ESG, trade compliance and due diligence reporting.

Type I certification requires submission of sample data via our guided application. All you need is a product or service part number and item specification, your company’s legal identity, facility location information and a payment method.

ECCMA-certified ISO 25500 conformance - Type 2, automation ready data

TYPE 2 — SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION – AUTOMATION-READY

$1,000

Scope: all Type I requirements plus live API data exchange

What Type 2 shows

Your systems are able to exchange and verify supply chain data with other systems, using the ISO 25500 API. This API is a central part of the Industrial Internet.

The Industrial Internet lets companies verify supplier identity, item specifications and other data with the source that owns it, at any step of their automated business process.

What changes with Type 2 certification and active use of the Industrial Internet

  • AI procurement agents and ERP automation work with valid, verified, standardized data. This means better decisions and fewer errors.
  • Faster supplier onboarding, based on verified supplier identity and item data.
  • Sourcing and supplier qualification based on verified data from the source.

Type II certification additionally requires an active Industrial Internet subscription with registered API endpoints (for example via VDSAI), and a demonstration that your systems can submit Search, Resolve, and Verify requests using the ISO 25500 API.

Certification is the evidence of AI-ready data. Standardized supply chain data delivers the benefits. The supply chain results described on this page come from using ISO 25500 standardized data. Certification is independent evidence that your company knows how to provide this data.

ISO 25500 is an international standard published by ISO. ECCMA is an independent certification body assessing and certifying conformance to it.

What is ISO 25500? ⇒

THE MARK FOR INTEROPERABLE AND AUTOMATION-READY DATA

The ECCMA-certified ISO 25500 conformance mark shows that your company knows how to format its supply chain data to ISO 25500. It tells buyers, procurement platforms and trading partners that your data is ready for automated and AI-supported systems.

  • Certificates are valid for an unlimited period.
  • Anyone can check a certificate in the ECCMA Certificate Directory.

One of the most widely recognized and entrenched problems in the supply chain today is the challenge of exchanging data without losing meaning.

Products are described differently from one system to the next, and one company to the next. Even if the data you have is well structured, it isn’t always obvious where to verify it as correct and current. The terms used for items’ attributes and values may not have the same meaning to the parties exchanging data, and that scenario magnifies across AI-supported or automated systems. Suppliers use legal names, trade names, various types of identifiers that makes it complex to know who you are, in fact, doing business with – and that they are who they say they are. Identifying exactly which facility a product is manufactured in and shipped from is  especially challenging with new company expectations and government regulations related to tariffs, sanctions and other measures. Even knowing when a transaction happened is complex, when businesses in some countries format their date as DD-MM-YYYY, others as YYYY-MM-DD, and some as MM-DD-YYYY.

Using these simple standardized formats, you can solve all of these problems: data becomes unambiguous, portable, interoperable, and inherently designed to be shared, compared, and trusted across organizations, sectors, and borders.

Only 36% of CPOs are very confident in their ability to redesign for AI (Gartner, 2026). The gap isn’t ambition – it is data that was built to survive a human checking it, not a machine acting on it alone.

When a person reviews data, small inconsistencies can get caught and fixed without anyone noticing: a facility address confirmed by phone, a mismatched supplier ID reconciled across two ERP instances, an ambiguous item spec sheet double-checked before the order goes out.

Remove that person – hand the same data to an AI agent or an automated system – and no-one catches the ambiguity. It becomes a wrong order, an unverified supplier approved without proper checks, or an inaccurate compliance record, executed automatically and at scale.

The risk to suppliers isn’t reputational – it is operational. Data that is not structured to a common standard means slower onboarding, more rejected orders, and a growing chance of being filtered out of automated RFQ and sourcing pipelines before a person ever sees the bid.

If your procurement, ERP, or sourcing systems are automating supplier intake and vendor qualification, you need a scalable way to know a supplier’s data can be trusted – without a person manually vetting each one.

The ECCMA-certified ISO 25500 conformance mark is that signal. A certified supplier is independently evidenced to be able to provide structured, unambiguous, and machine-readable data that your systems can read, interpret, and act on. Achieving the conformance mark is a step toward exchanging data with your trading partners using the Industrial Internet which can support you to…

  • Screen for certification status in supplier onboarding and RFQ evaluation, the same way you already screen for insurance or financial standing
  • Reduce manual reconciliation work — verified identity, credentials, and item data cut reconciliation effort
  • Build your own audit trail for ESG, trade compliance, and regulatory due diligence
  • Reduce risk in your AI procurement deployment — certified suppliers are a trusted source your AI agents and automation can act on first

If you are a consultant, application provider or system integrator, speak with ECCMA about how you can help your clients get ready for ECCMA-certified ISO 25500 conformance, ISO 25500 implementation and supply chain data standardization.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

It is an independent certificate from ECCMA. It shows that a company knows how to format its supply chain data to ISO 25500, the international standard for supply chain interoperability and integration.

Type 1 (AI-ready data) shows that your company knows how to format its supply chain data to ISO 25500. Data in this format is data that AI agents and buyer systems can understand and trust.

Type 2 (automation-ready) includes all Type 1 requirements. It shows that your systems are able to exchange and verify supply chain data with other systems, using the ISO 25500 API.

No. Certification shows that your company knows how to format data to ISO 25500 based on a sample of your data. To get the full benefits, you need to standardize your supply chain data to ISO 25500. Many companies find that certification is a good first step toward this and helps them develop their understanding and capability for data standardization.

Type 1 Certification costs $500. Type 2 Certification costs $1,000 and includes all Type 1 requirements. ECCMA checks the data you submit before it issues the certificate. Certificates are valid for an unlimited period.

Not directly. Certification shows that your company knows how to format its supply chain data to ISO 25500. It does not check local content, domestic sourcing or country of origin. It does not by itself meet the requirements of local content or supplier qualification programs. But data that is standardized to ISO 25500 gives you a verified, audit-ready base. This makes it faster and easier to document compliance with these programs.

Yes. Companies of any size can apply. ISO 25500 standardized data helps smaller suppliers be found and trusted by large buyers and automated systems, in the same way as large companies.

You can check any certificate in the ECCMA Certificate Registry. Search by company name or certificate number.

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