PPWR 2026: 4 software solutions to navigate your supply chain compliance
Last update: November 20, 2025
Key Takeaways:
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PPWR is not just a compliance challenge, but a data challenge.
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The optimal solution must solve the complex challenge of managing non-compliant packaging data to ensure compliance.
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The PPWR requires companies to take more ownership for their packaging, with Extended Producer Responsibility requirements.
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For PPWR, companies need to choose wisely between tools built for packaging & supply chain data management versus those focused on packaging materials and design optimisation.
What is PPWR? And the realities of compliance.
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) is a new EU regulation designed to reshape how packaging is designed, used, and recovered across the single market.
Coming into force in August 2026, it introduces progressively stricter requirements through 2030 to reduce waste, increase recyclability, and promote circular packaging systems.
The PPWR obligations range from recyclability targets, to PFAS bans, and even deal in how packaging for transported goods is created. For many organisations, the PPWR is not just a compliance challenge, it’s a data challenge, demanding end-to-end visibility into packaging materials, suppliers, and product life cycles.
What to assess in PPWR solutions?
Choosing the right PPWR solution starts with understanding what problem you’re actually solving. Are you looking for a compliance platform to manage data, automate Declarations of Conformity, and prove adherence to recyclability targets and plastic content thresholds, or a design tool to help you re-engineer packaging toward those targets? The difference matters.
A compliance-focused platform, like Agriplace, helps you collect and structure supplier, product, and packaging data down to the material-layer granularity required by PPWR. It connects that data to the right fields, automates reporting, and ensures traceability across your supply chain. A design-oriented solution, such as Packa or 4Pack, is built for teams who already have clean data and want to optimise packaging design — changing materials, formats, or recyclability percentages to meet targets.
A compliance solution should:
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offer granular level control over your packaging and product data
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enable sending and sharing Declarations of Conformity
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automate data collection
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handle packaging specification data e.g. plastic composition percentages, presence of PFAS & recyclability targets
A design solution should:
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stimulate design changes
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model recyclability design options
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suggest alternative methods/materials
Comparison by industry scope (generalist vs specialist) & solution type (compliance vs packaging)
This positioning matrix compares leading PPWR compliance solutions by industry scope and solution depth. “Industry scope” refers to how broadly a solution can be applied across different sectors. ''Solution type'' describes what direction the platform takes in addressing the compliance process.
Agriplace stands out as a broad, end-to-end compliance platform, while Packa and 4Pack focus on specialized packaging data, and Osapiens offers a generalist, cross-industry approach.
1. Agriplace
Agriplace is uniquely positioned to bridge product and packaging compliance. Its biggest advantage is enabling companies to get packaging and product data in the first place, not just analyse what they already have.
Agriplace allows you to automate supplier data collection across complex supply chains and turn unstructured supplier documents into digestible, actionable insights.
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Solution type: End to end solution on packaging and compliance
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Scope: Broad scope of solution from collecting and managing documents to checking compliance against specific metadata fields. Particularly focused in the Food & Bev/Grocery Retail sectors.
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Strength: guides you from collecting data to complying with certifications. An all-in-one solution that integrates with your ERP & has a direct connection to food & Bev certification bodies like GLOBALG.A.P., BRC and more.
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Weakness: Less specialised in sectors outside of food and beverage/grocery retail. Built for supply chain management. Not a specific packaging lifecycle management platform.
For: Companies who want a solution that scales and can fulfil all your compliance needs.
2. Packa
Packa specialises in packaging data. It is not a compliance solution but a packaging management software. It is a good option for companies who only want to manage their packaging.
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Solution Type: Specialized packaging compliance platform.
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Scope: Narrow scope focused on packaging data, specification management, and regulatory checks.
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Industry Fit: Ideal for packaging manufacturers and teams working directly with packaging specifications in consumer goods.
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Strength: Excellent at packaging-specific workflows.
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Weakness: Limited to packaging data only; not a full product compliance system.
For: Packaging producers and consumer-goods brands that already have supplier data and need an easy way to control, version, and verify their packaging specifications.
3. osapiens
osapiens is a regulatory automation and transparency platform that helps companies comply with evolving EU regulations across multiple industries.
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Solution Type: Cross-industry compliance & transparency platform (osapiens HUB).
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Scope: Broad scope supporting EU regulations (PPWR, EUDR) across industries.
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Strength: Offers a PPWR hub as part of separate solution, it is industry agnostic making it a good solution for companies who work in many different industries.
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Weakness: Less specialised in supply chain collaboration and supplier data collection. Osapiens is not an end-to-end platform for packaging collection and analysis. Its strength is also a weakness, Osapiens is not a leader in any particular industry meaning it is not a strong solution for companies operating in a particular industry.
For: Large multinationals needing a single compliance automation layer across multiple EU regulations rather than deep packaging-data functionality.
4. 4Pack
4Pack is a product and packaging lifecycle management platform designed for FMCG and retail brands. It brings together packaging data, artwork, and labeling processes to streamline product development and ensure consistency across global markets.
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Solution Type: Product & Packaging Lifecycle Data Management Platform.
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Scope: Vertical scope, it integrates packaging, artwork, and product data; mainly for FMCG and retail.
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Strength: Combines multiple packaging lifecycle functions, excellent for artwork management.
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Weakness: Incapable of full multi-regulation compliance. It is solely a solution for consumer packaged goods.
For: FMCG marketing and packaging development teams that need to coordinate packaging creation, artwork, and product launches across markets.
Europe’s compliance transformation (PPWR, DPP, EUDR) is creating a massive data challenge, not just a regulatory one.
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Osapiens automates documentation for those who already have structured data.
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Packa and 4Pack help manage packaging data — but assume it’s available and structured.
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Agriplace goes one level deeper: enabling companies to collect, extract, and standardize supplier and packaging data to build the foundation those other systems depend on.
That makes Agriplace the “front-end enabler” of compliance intelligence — the layer that ensures data completeness and trustworthiness before regulatory automation begins.