Bordmittel® and ForSURE collaborate to simplify EPR reporting

As EPR reporting becomes more complex across countries and product categories, companies need more than manual spreadsheets and recurring reporting workarounds. Bordmittel® and ForSURE are collaborating to make EPR reporting more structured, automated, and audit-ready. Bordmittel® strengthens the data and process foundation, and ForSURE applies the regulatory logic needed for accurate multi-country reporting.

The problem with today’s EPR reporting

For many companies, Extended Producer Responsibility reporting has outgrown the processes used to manage it.

Packaging, product, material, sales, shipment, and country data often sit across different systems and spreadsheets. Finance may hold volume data, product teams may maintain material specifications, logistics may manage market flows, and sustainability or compliance teams may be responsible for final reporting. By the time EPR reports need to be submitted, the process often depends on manually combining these inputs, checking assumptions, and resolving inconsistencies under time pressure.

EPR reporting is where the symptoms become visible, but the root problem usually sits earlier: in fragmented ownership, unclear source systems, inconsistent definitions, and missing governance around product and packaging data. Different teams often work from different timelines and data structures. Many reporting challenges are therefore not caused by a lack of effort, but by unclear responsibilities and missing decision rights between teams.

This creates a recurring operational burden. Teams spend time reconciling files, chasing missing data, interpreting country-specific requirements, and validating calculations by hand. Excel remains the default tool in many organizations, but it is rarely designed to manage all of the required topics for EPR compliance like changing reporting rules, approval workflows, audit trails, or multi-country complexity at scale.

The result goes further than just inefficiency. Fragmented EPR reporting increases the risk of overreporting, underreporting, rework, and missed obligations. Without clear governance, companies also struggle to explain where reported figures came from, who approved them, which assumptions were used, and whether the process can be repeated reliably in the next reporting cycle.

Automation alone does not solve this. Automating EPR reporting without first addressing the misalignment in the data layer. As EPR obligations continue to expand, the challenge is about building a controlled operating model that connects internal company data, accountable teams, and external reporting requirements in a repeatable way, and not just about submitting the right report.

Why Bordmittel® and ForSURE are working together

Bordmittel® and ForSURE will work together to close the gap between internal company data and external EPR reporting obligations.

Reliable EPR reporting requires two layers to work in sync: a governed internal data foundation and accurate country-specific reporting logic. Bordmittel® focuses on the internal foundation required for reliable EPR reporting: structured EPR data, clear ownership, defined workflows, and governance across the teams and systems that contribute to the reporting process. This means helping companies define which data should be trusted, where it should live, who owns it, and how it should flow into downstream compliance processes.

ForSURE complements this by applying the EPR-specific reporting logic: country requirements, reporting categories, validation rules, plausibility checks, and repeatable workflows for multi-country compliance. This ensures that structured company data can be translated into accurate, reportable outputs.

The collaboration is designed to connect these two layers. Bordmittel® creates the operating model that makes EPR data reliable across the organization. ForSURE applies the reporting intelligence that turns that governed data into country-specific EPR outputs. Together, the collaboration helps companies toward a more integrated reporting model. Internal data becomes easier to manage, reporting logic becomes easier to apply, and the full process becomes more transparent, scalable, and audit-ready.

How Bordmittel® contributes

Bordmittel® helps companies turn EPR-relevant data into a governed operating model: clear source systems, defined data ownership, structured handovers, approval workflows, and traceable decision points.

This starts with system-of-record thinking and defining how those sources should be connected. Instead of relying on disconnected spreadsheets and informal workarounds, Bordmittel® supports the creation of a single, structured view of EPR-relevant data.

This is not only about collecting data for a report. It is about establishing which internal sources can be trusted, which teams are responsible for maintaining them, and how changes are controlled over time. Bordmittel® helps make responsibilities explicit across the teams involved in EPR reporting.

Bordmittel® also brings governance and workflow design into the reporting process. That means clarifying roles and responsibilities, defining approval steps, creating repeatable data flows, and making sure teams understand what information is needed, when it is needed, and who is accountable for it.

This foundation is critical for automation. Without trusted data, clear ownership, and controlled workflows, automated reporting can simply reproduce existing inconsistencies faster. Bordmittel®’s contribution is to make the internal process structured enough for EPR reporting to become reliable, repeatable, and scalable.

The same governed data foundation can also support adjacent sustainability, packaging, and regulatory reporting needs over time. By creating a stronger internal data layer, companies are prepared for the next EPR reporting cycle and simultaneously building a more durable foundation for future compliance and business decisions.

How ForSURE contributes

ForSURE brings the regulatory and reporting logic required to turn structured company data into EPR-ready outputs.

EPR reporting requirements vary by country, material, product group, reporting body, and reporting period. Companies need to understand not only what data they have, but how that data should be classified, validated, calculated, and submitted in each market. ForSURE supports this layer with country-specific EPR logic, reporting structures, and validation workflows.

This also includes plausibility checks to identify missing, inconsistent, or unusual data before reports are submitted. It also includes repeatable reporting workflows that help companies manage recurring obligations across countries and reporting cycles.

By versioning and structuring EPR logic, ForSURE helps companies reduce dependence on manual interpretation and one-off reporting work. This makes it easier to scale reporting across additional countries, product groups, and regulatory schemes without rebuilding the process each time.

In this collaboration, ForSURE’s role is strongest once the company’s EPR-relevant data has been made usable, governed, and traceable. That structured foundation allows ForSURE’s regulatory logic and validation workflows to operate with greater reliability.

What this means for companies

For companies managing EPR obligations, the collaboration between Bordmittel® and ForSURE is designed to reduce operational friction and increase reporting confidence.

Instead of repeatedly assembling reports from fragmented data sources, teams can work from a clearer data foundation and a more structured reporting process. Manual effort is reduced, validation becomes more systematic, and reporting outputs become easier to explain and reproduce.

This also improves audit readiness. Companies gain better visibility into where data came from, how it was processed, which rules were applied, and who approved each step. That transparency matters for internal control and cost management.

Better EPR reporting can also support better business decisions. When companies understand how materials, products, countries, and reporting categories influence EPR fees, they can identify cost drivers more clearly and make more informed decisions about packaging, product design, and market expansion.

This is where the value goes beyond reporting efficiency. Once EPR data becomes structured and governed, companies can use it to understand internal metrics and make better decisions about packaging and market strategy.

The outcome is a more scalable approach to EPR reporting: less manual work, fewer errors, stronger governance, better control over costs, and a process that can grow with the company’s obligations.

How companies can start

Companies do not need to rebuild their entire EPR reporting process at once. A practical starting point is to assess the current reporting setup and identify where the biggest risks and inefficiencies exist.

This can begin with an initial EPR reporting check: which countries are in scope, which reports are required, which data sources are used, and where manual work or uncertainty currently enters the process. From there, bottlenecks can be identified such as missing material data, unclear ownership, inconsistent product classifications, or validation steps that depend on individual knowledge.

This first step should not only review the final reports. It should also examine the operating model behind them. This makes it easier to distinguish between reporting issues that can be solved with better logic and reporting issues that first require stronger governance.

The next step is to define a target model. This includes deciding which data sources should act as systems of record, which teams should own which inputs, how approvals should work, and which reporting workflows should be automated first. A focused pilot can then test the approach in a defined country, product group, or reporting cycle.

Once the model is proven, companies can scale continuously. Additional countries, reporting categories, product groups, and workflows can be added without returning to a fully manual process each time.

This step-by-step approach allows companies to move from fragmented EPR reporting toward a controlled, repeatable, and scalable operating model.

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Bordmittel® and ForSURE help companies strengthen the governance behind EPR reporting turning fragmented data, manual workflows, and unclear ownership into a more controlled, repeatable, and audit-ready process. Send us a message to explore where your EPR reporting governance can be improved.

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