The EU DPP Data-Readiness Checklist

Summary

The EU Digital Product Passport turns product data into compliance infrastructure. Teams preparing for DPP need more than marketing copy or a PIM export: they need reliable identifiers, materials, supplier evidence, SVHC and REACH status, documentation links, repairability data, provenance, and update workflows that can survive audits and regulation changes. This checklist helps manufacturers, distributors, and product-data teams assess whether their current catalog, ERP, PLM, PIM, supplier files, and compliance repositories can support a future passport. It is written for the messy middle where product records exist, but the evidence is spread across spreadsheets, PDFs, SDS files, supplier emails, and disconnected systems. The gated PDF contains the readiness scorecard and field-by-field audit; this page summarizes the problem and the deliverables without publishing the full checklist.

What's inside

• The identifier, material, supplier, compliance, repairability, and provenance fields to inventory before DPP implementation.
• A readiness scorecard for SVHC, SCIP, REACH, Annex XVII, batch, component, and documentation data.
• The ownership map across ERP, PIM, PLM, supplier portals, SDS repositories, and certification files.
• The gap patterns that make DPP projects stall even when product pages look complete.
• A remediation sequence for turning scattered compliance evidence into a traceable product record.