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IDC MaturityScape: Supply-Driven Design 1.0

Publisher IDC
Published Oct 13, 2025
Length 15 Pages
SKU # IDC20481056

Description

This IDC study delves into emerging strategies for discrete manufacturing companies that are pursuing supply-driven design. This study details five maturity stages from a completely ad hoc approach, with disjointed manual processes, to optimized and autonomous experiences that maximize business agility and resilience. It aims to enhance manufacturers' ability to optimize profits in the face of disruption by guiding executive decisions around people, strategy, and technology by identifying key characteristics at each stage. This document provides a road map for achieving excellence in producing complex products that can be reliably produced and will inform CEOs and CIOs, as well as heads of engineering, manufacturing, and procurement. This document will be followed by a second document, IDC MaturityScape Benchmark for supply-driven design, which will provide a quantitative assessment of maturity levels based on end-user survey data."For manufacturers, reducing business risks associated with supply chain volatility is a priority. The procurement department has been largely alone in facing this challenge, but a supply-driven design approach allows engineering to help make their company more agile and resilient to supply chain disruptions," said John Snow, research director, Product Innovation Strategies at IDC. "Adding supply chain resilience as a product requirement, in the form of supply-driven design, optimizes the cost, time, and quality of product development and manufacturing."

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IDC MaturityScape Figure

Executive Summary

Elements of the Supply-Driven Design Maturity Framework

Stages of the Supply-Driven Design Maturity Framework

Ad Hoc

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Business Outcome

Opportunistic

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Business Outcome

Repeatable

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Business Outcome

Managed

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Business Outcome

Optimized

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Business Outcome

Dimensions of the Supply-Driven Design Maturity Framework

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