SMEs are under growing pressure: requirements are increasing, processes are often not standardised, and information has to be provided multiple times across different platforms. This increases administrative effort – and therefore costs.
This is where Catena-X comes in. As a data ecosystem for the automotive value chain, it enables standardised and controlled data exchange. Information can be structured, shared securely and reused multiple times.
Silver Atena actively contributes the experience of an SME. The aim is to simplify and standardise sustainability and compliance requirements. This is an important contribution to increasing efficiency and competitiveness.
A key element is the risk-based assessment: the scope of checks and documentation is based on factors such as company size, country risk and type of activity – rather than generic requirements. This reduces effort and creates clearer processes.
At Zukunftstag Mittelstand 2026, Josef Mitterhuber, Managing Director of Silver Atena, and Hanno Focken, Managing Director of Catena-X, demonstrated how standardisation and data control can reduce complexity and create greater legal certainty. The result: effort and costs can be significantly reduced.
In the masterclass, Hanno Focken from Catena-X, Thomas Rösch from Cofinity-X, Dr Piotr Warmbier from BMW and Dr Irene Schönreiter from Silver Atena discussed how SMEs can get started in practice.
For Silver Atena, solutions only create value if they work in day-to-day business. Through our involvement in Catena-X, we help translate regulatory requirements into practical processes and reduce the associated effort.