Assessment
The Digital Transformation for Manufacturers Assessment will examine digital practices and performances for eight categories of small- and medium-sized manufacturing operations:
- BUSINESS — Leadership, strategy deployment, and technologies for digitization.
- PRODUCTION — Best practices to drive digitization within production and manufacturing KPIs.
- WAREHOUSE/DISTRIBUTION — Best practices to drive digitization within warehouses and warehouse KPIs.
- SUPPLY CHAIN — Best practices to drive digitization of suppliers and supplier-management KPIs.
- LOGISTICS/TRANSPORTATION — Best practices to drive digitization with logistics partners and transportation KPIs.
- CUSTOMER — Best practices to support digitization with customers and customer-centric KPIs.
- SUPPORT FUNCTIONS— Practices of support functions to support digitization.
- SMART PRODUCTS — Development of smart products.
Questions in the categories will help to define the level of digital maturity:
- LEVEL 0 — Missing
- LEVEL 1 — Awareness and applicability
- LEVEL 2 — Early application
- LEVEL 3 — Monitoring
- LEVEL 4 — Managing
- LEVEL 5 — Leveraging
When completing the assessment, teams also submit profile information about their organizations; identify constraints that prevent digital improvement in the categories; and record comments that will help them proceed with improvement planning.
The following assessment materials also are available:
DTM Assessment Handout
Assessment tool as an MS-Word printable document. Share copies with team members and/or project the online assessment questionnaire onto a screen.
(MS WORD)
DTM Assessment Poster
Assessment tool reformatted as a three-page PDF. Upload each page to your internal or external print center to create large-scale (e.g., 3’ x 4’) posters.
DTM ASSESSMENT DEMO
Review and trial the online DTM Assessment and the DTM Data Visualization at a demo site prior to submitting your company’s data to the live DTM Assessment site. The Demo site will acquaint you and your team with DTM categories and questions.