Two to four weeks,
and then you can decide.
Most DPP programmes stall before they start, because nobody can say what is actually required, what the data can support, or what it is worth. The assessment answers those three, in that order, and hands back a roadmap rather than a report.
What it covers
The same three dimensions the readiness scorecard scores in nine questions. The scorecard tells you which one is weakest; this is the work of fixing it.
Regulatory readiness
Which rules actually apply to what you make, on what timetable, and who inside the business owns the answer.
- Regulatory gap analysis across ESPR, the Battery Regulation and the sector-specific delegated acts
- DPP scope defined across your product categories and the markets you sell into
- Exposure mapped to dates, with an owner against each one
Data and infrastructure maturity
Whether your systems can answer for a single item — which is the question a passport asks and the one most product data was never built to survive.
- Current data landscape and system readiness across PLM, ERP, suppliers and the spreadsheets in between
- Product identity and data model design
- ESPR data attributes mapped against what your systems can actually produce today
- Where the vendor landscape fits, and which parts you should not buy
Value capture
What the passport is worth after the first sale, and who in the organisation is going to fund it.
- Lifecycle services and third-party access framework
- Resale, repair, authentication and clienteling assessed against your product identity
- Business case development and stakeholder alignment
What lands on the table
One document, written to be read by the people who approve the budget rather than by the people who will build it.
- A current-state baseline, written down rather than assumed
- A regulatory exposure map with dates and named owners
- A prioritised roadmap, phased, with what has to be true before each phase starts
- An architecture and vendor direction, including what to defer
- A business case in the form the people who sign it off already read
Where it sits
Three steps, and each one is a decision point rather than a commitment to the next.
Readiness scorecard
Scores a programme across the same three dimensions and answers immediately. No sign-up to see the result.
DPP Assessment
This page. The three dimensions done properly, ending in a roadmap a board can fund.
Follow-on advisory
Programme governance, pilot design and oversight, vendor and integration management, through to production launch. Taken up only if the roadmap says it is worth taking up.
Scoped per engagement. There is no rate card: the shape of the work depends on how many categories and markets are in scope and how much of the data landscape already has an owner, and establishing that is the first thing a conversation does.
Start with a conversation
Thirty minutes is usually enough to tell whether an assessment is the right next step, or whether you already know enough to skip it.