The Order-to-Delivery Digital Readiness Framework: Eight Instruments for Assessing and Sequencing Digital Change in Upfitter Operations (Version 1.0)
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Version 1.0, published 10 November 2026. First public edition. Eight working instruments for assessing how ready a manufacturing operation really is to absorb digital change in its order-to-delivery process, and what to fix first. Most digital initiatives in this industry fail before anyone buys software. They fail because nobody measured what the operation actually does: where orders wait, which handoffs depend on one person, which rules live only in someone's head, which interfaces fail without an alert. The framework measures that in a form a plant manager can check. The eight instruments: (1) Digital and Operational Readiness Assessment, seven dimensions with anchored scoring; (2) Order-to-Delivery Process and Dependency Map, including a dependency record with detection and single point of failure; (3) Business Rules Register; (4) Application and Interface Inventory; (5) Data and Interface Ownership Matrix; (6) Risk Register with PFMEA structure; (7) Readiness Scorecard, seven dimensions in Layer A and five measured properties in Layer B; (8) Sequenced Roadmap derived by published rules with a published tie-break. A reference-case annex carries every figure in one place with the arithmetic in view. What is original here is not the idea of a readiness assessment. It is the dependency record with detection and single point of failure inside the process map; the locus enforced by: none as a control finding; a scorecard whose second layer is measured properties of the operation rather than opinions; and derivation rules with a published tie-break criterion. The framework cites its nearest neighbours — Zaodashi, SIRI, ASCM, DREAMY, Hackett — and states what it takes from each and what it does not. This edition was reviewed before publication. An independent technical review examined the draft and found substantive defects, including a worked example that did not add up and a scorecard that misapplied its own bands in three places. Both were corrected before anything was published. The review record is included in this deposit and states every defect and its correction. Limitations that remain are declared in the same document: a single reference operation, provisional thresholds, no inter-rater study and no predictive validation. The framework is also published in HTML at https://o2dreadiness.com/en/framework/ and, in Spanish, at https://o2dreadiness.com/es/framework/.
Author: Luis Jimenez, Victor Hugo
Language: English
Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225753771
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