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Operational Readiness Review (ORR)

Structured operational readiness review template for the transition from project to operations: readiness dimensions (SOPs, training, materials, maintenance and calibration, live quality system), a weighted scorecard, an open-gap register, and a documented go/no-go recommendation.

What a template is not

A template is a document baseline to adapt inside your own quality system. SPEQ does not approve, validate, or take responsibility for what you issue from it, and using one is not evidence of compliance.

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REGULATIONS MAPPED
ICH Q1021 CFR Part 211EU GMP Annex 15
DOCUMENT TYPE
Record
LAST UPDATED
August 2026
PURPOSE

A structured, evidence-based review answering one question before start-up: is the operating organisation — people, procedures, materials, maintenance and the live quality system — ready to run the facility, not merely the equipment ready to be run? Qualified equipment in an unready organisation is the failure this review exists to catch, and which gaps block start-up is the organisation’s own call.

What's Inside

Readiness dimension checklists covering SOPs, training, materials, maintenance and calibration, and the quality system
Personnel qualification and training-completion evidence, held as records rather than as a manager’s assurance
Materials and supply-chain readiness including approved-supplier status for everything the first batch needs
Verification that deviation, CAPA and change-control workflows are live, staffed and already exercised
Weighted readiness scorecard with rating criteria defined before anyone scores against them
Open-gap register with owners, actions, due dates, and which gaps explicitly block start-up
Documented go/no-go recommendation with a sign-off block naming who accepted the residual gaps

How to Use It

1Schedule the review far enough ahead of start-up that the gaps it finds can actually be closed before then.
2Assign a dimension owner for each readiness area and require objective evidence rather than an assertion of readiness.
3Score each dimension against the defined criteria and record the evidence reference behind every rating given.
4Test that the quality system is genuinely live — a deviation workflow with no deviations logged has not been exercised.
5Log every gap with an owner, action and due date, and classify explicitly which gaps block start-up.
6Issue the go/no-go recommendation, obtain sign-off, and re-review blocking gaps before release to operations rather than after.
DOCUMENT CONTENTS

The full section structure of this template — every section and sub-section, so you can use it as a baseline for your own site document.

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Document InformationApproval SignaturesRevision HistoryDistribution List
1Purpose and Scope
2Readiness Dimensions Checklist
Procedures (SOPs)Training and Personnel QualificationMaterials and Supply ChainMaintenance and CalibrationQuality System Live
3Readiness Scorecard
4Open-Gap Register
5Go / No-Go Recommendation
6Sign-Off
REGULATORY CONTEXT

ICH Q10 makes management responsible for resources, training and a functioning quality system before commercial operation; 21 CFR Part 211 requires qualified personnel, approved procedures and controlled materials from the first batch; and EU GMP Annex 15 frames qualification and validation as a prerequisite to routine use. None of them sets your readiness criteria or decides which open gap is tolerable at start-up — that judgement is the organisation’s. The readiness-dimension structure and scorecard are SPEQ practitioner synthesis.

MAPPED STANDARDS
ICH Q1021 CFR Part 211EU GMP Annex 15
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