Mandatory prerequisites:
Before sharing certificates, ensure that the following prerequisites are completed:
Cofinity-X Portal Onboarding
You must be successfully onboarded to the Cofinity-X Portal and have selected Dataspace OS as your certificate management solution.Data Governance Credentials
Request your Data Governance Credentials by following the instructions provided in the guide.BPNA Retrieval
Retrieve the BPNA for each individual location to which a certificate will apply.Please note: This process may take up to 2 working days.
Follow the step-by-step guide.
Access to Dataspace OS
Ensure that you can successfully sign in to Dataspace OS before proceeding, by following these steps.
Supported Certificate Types:
Only the following certificates are supported by BMW.
Note: The following certificate types are not supported for sharing with BMW via Certificate Management:
ISO 14001
ISO 45001 / OHSAS 18001
ISO 50001
TISAX
Please your BMW Purchasing contact for how to share these certificates.
Certificate sharing:
Once all prerequisites are fulfilled and BPNAs have been issued for all relevant locations, you can proceed with certificate sharing.
BMW uses a PUSH method, meaning that you must actively upload and provide the certificate to BMW’s cloud storage. Follow the guidelines below step-by-step:
Share the Certificate via Dataspace OS PUSH. Ensure you choose as the partner Bayerische Motoren Werke from the drop-down partner list.
Monitor the feedback of BMW about the certificate. It may take a while until the system receives the feedback notification.
Troubleshooting and support request template:
In case of any issues during the certificate exchange with BMW, please ensure you follow the next steps:
If something doesn’t work, check the following:
All prerequisites are completed
BPNA is correct for each location
Certificate type is supported
Partner “Bayerische Motoren Werke” was selected
PUSH method was used
If the issue continues:
Submit a support request to [email protected] using the provided template:
BPNL of your company
Certificate type
Screenshot of the sharing screen and/or the error message