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title: "Software Supply Chain Strategy at Deutsche Bahn"
date: 2026-01-31
categories:
  - english
  - presentation
tags:
  - OSPO
  - SupplyChain
  - Security
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  name: FOSDEM 2026
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Deutsche Bahn, with its 230,000 employees and hundreds of subsidiaries, is far from an average organization. Yet it faces the same challenges under the CRA as many others. In this session, I showed how we connected the concrete requirements of CRA compliance with our broader effort to bring transparency to our software supply chains. This forms the basis for security and license compliance processes, as well as for proactively shaping the ecosystems we depend on.

In the presentation, I outlined our strategy for addressing the expectations tied to the different roles we take on -- customer, manufacturer, and indirectly even steward -- from both organizational and technical angles. Given the diversity and scale of Deutsche Bahn, we rely on modular FOSS tools that offer the flexibility to adapt to varying stakeholder needs and evolving regulation. This flexibility is a core element of our approach. This session showed how we align strategy and technology to make this work.
