Vendors and systems integrators paint a compelling vision of manufacturing operations management (MOM). But rather than buying a MOM solution off the shelf, each manufacturer must navigate to a MOM destination uniquely defined by the combination of its value proposition and legacy applications portfolio. To gauge their progress on the journey to MOM, technology leaders at manufacturing firms should use our MOM Readiness Assessment to prioritize tasks and activities that align the governance of MOM portfolio apps like PLM, ERP, and MES and synchronize the data and processes that they share to drive competitively differentiating customer service from manufacturing capacity.