Digital Product Passport readiness
DPP readiness is the extent to which an organisation can identify the products it is responsible for documenting, and produce sufficiently reliable, traceable product information — including supplier evidence — before a passport is published.
Written by SOURCE Research. Published 18 August 2026. Last reviewed 18 August 2026. Not legal advice.
What is DPP readiness?
DPP readiness is not a published QR code. It is whether you can name the product, know which operator you are, see which required information already exists, judge whether the evidence is good enough to stand behind, list what is missing, and know which supplier or internal team must close the gap.
Why publication is not the first problem
Typical DPP tools start at “add product, fill fields, generate passport”. That works for a handful of SKUs. It fails when the catalogue already lives in ERP and the missing 20% of fields sit at 80 suppliers. Readiness is a portfolio problem.
A readiness assessment looks at
- Product identity — is this the same article across systems?
- Operator hypothesis — manufacturer, importer, private label, distributor.
- Required information — from an adopted measure or a dataset you choose to work toward.
- Existing evidence — documents, claims, permissions, expiry.
- Confidence — declared is not verified.
- Missing data — grouped by supplier, not by email thread.
- Auditability — who changed what, and which document supports the value.
The detailed measurement model is on How SOURCE assesses evidence and coverage.