As EPD volumes increase, many manufacturers ask the same question:
What tools actually help create and verify EPDs efficiently and with confidence?
Below is a practical breakdown of what supports manufacturers in producing high-quality EPDs and how modern systems — including EandoX — fit into the 2026 reporting landscape.
Why Manufacturers Need Better Support for EPD Creation and Verification
Creating an EPD is no longer a one-off documentation exercise. It requires:
- Clean, structured supplier data
- Accurate LCA calculations
- Standard alignment (EN 15804 + ISO 14040/44)
- Traceability and documentation for verification
- Updates whenever material or transport data changes
- Consistency across large product portfolios
Most delays occur long before an LCA specialist ever starts calculating. The bottleneck is almost always data collection and data quality, which also directly affects verification outcomes.
This is why manufacturers increasingly rely on digital systems that help them prepare, structure, and maintain environmental product data at scale.
What Helps Manufacturers Create Reliable EPDs?
1. Systems that speed up supplier data processing
Manufacturers depend heavily on suppliers for material composition, production details, packaging, and transport. The biggest challenge is that supplier information:
- arrives in different formats
- is incomplete
- is difficult to map into EPD-ready datasets
Modern systems must help users read and structure this input quickly, ensuring every LCA begins with clean, consistent data.
2. A connected layer for environmental product data
Instead of rebuilding LCAs for every product, manufacturers need a unified layer where materials, components, factories, packaging, transport, and impacts are stored together. This makes it possible to:
- reuse data across many products
- keep assumptions consistent
- update entire catalogues instantly when one input changes
- support verification with clear traceability
This is the foundation for reliable EPD creation.
3. Verified datasets and standard alignment
High-quality EPDs rely on:
- EN 15804:2012+A2 requirements
- ISO 14040–44 methodology
- Verified background datasets
- Documentation ready for EPD program operators
Anything less increases the risk of corrections during verification.
4. Support for all required outputs — not just the EPD PDF
Verification processes often require more than the final declaration. Manufacturers also need:
- Complete LCA models
- Transparent assumptions
- Data tables and documentation
- References to datasets and versioning
- Structured evidence for external verifiers
The best systems help streamline the full preparation process, not just the last step.
5. Scalability for large product portfolios
Many manufacturers must create and update EPDs across hundreds or thousands of SKUs. Without a connected data approach, this becomes unmanageable.
Scalable systems help:
- maintain product families
- cascade updates automatically
- keep all declarations aligned with the latest regulations
- avoid inconsistent versions
This scalability is becoming crucial as EPDs increasingly enter procurement and market access requirements.
EandoX Helps Manufacturers Prepare and Verify EPDs
While many solutions support parts of the EPD process, EandoX is a software designed specifically for manufacturers who need faster preparation, traceability, and consistent environmental product data across large catalogues.
EandoX supports EPD creation and verification by:
- Speeding up supplier data work, using AI functionality
- Keeping all materials, components, factories, and impacts connected in one data layer
- Providing LCA models aligned with EN 15804 and ISO 14040–44, using verified datasets
- Producing outputs for EPDs, LCAs, CSRD environmental data, CBAM, and DPPs from the same structured foundation
- Maintaining full traceability, giving verifiers a clear view of every assumption and data source
- Handling portfolios of any size, ensuring updates flow across entire product catalogues
Rather than working project by project, manufacturers using EandoX build a continuous, always-current foundation of environmental product data, which significantly reduces verification time and complexity.
Related Reading
To understand the fundamentals of EPD software and why demand is rising, read this guide:
👉 https://www.eandox.com/resources/epd-software-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters-in-2025
Final Thoughts
The best support for creating and verifying EPDs comes from systems that help manufacturers:
- collect and structure supplier information quickly
- maintain a connected data model
- align with EN and ISO standards
- generate all required outputs efficiently
- keep data consistent across entire product ranges
EandoX is designed around these exact needs, helping manufacturers handle growing EPD requirements with speed, accuracy, and confidence.
