Manufacturing lacks a clear, structured way to represent and exchange contracts that enables privacy preserving insights into how obligations depend on one another, and how failures in one area affect overall supply chain resilience. The panel will explore the requirements for a Contract Definition Language (CDL) that could solve this problem. The CDL will provide a high-level representation of contractual terms that are both human-interpretable and amenable to formal analysis. CDL will combine clear conceptual definitions, legal ontologies, and domain-specific vocabularies to reduce ambiguity and improve consistency across contexts. The goal of the panel is to bring together stakeholders interested in shaping the design of the CDL and eventually leveraging it in the context of their business.