Projected Date

The projected date is the date the planning or scheduling functions estimate a job, customer order, or other demand can be completed, based on other demands and your current capacity. It can be generated for various types of demands by the Scheduler or the APS system. The projected date is the date that the APS Planning engine has determined the resource will be available for use on the project. The Late Alert indicator logic compares the Due Date field to the Projected date field to determine whether the resource is late or projected to be late.

The Scheduler may calculate the projected date of a job order or estimate job order.

• If a firm job has been scheduled (if the Scheduled check box is selected), the job's projected date represents the date the Scheduler scheduled the job to be complete.
• If the firm job has not been scheduled, the projected date represents the date APS projected the job to be complete.

APS planning calculates the projected date differently depending on whether the item has a routing and whether you are using APS:

• If the item has no routing, the date is calculated from the item's lead time. If you use Get ATP to calculate the projected date, the system ignores any expedited lead times (although it does use expedited lead time if you use Get CTP).

  See Defining Lead Time for APS Planning

• If the item has a routing and you are using APS, the date is calculated by pull planning through the routing, considering the finite availability of your resources.

The system attempts to plan the order or line item as close to the original input date (such as the due date for a customer order line) as possible. Therefore, the displayed projected date may change based on the date you enter before selecting the Get ATP/CTP button. If the projected date is calculated to fall outside the defined plan horizon, the message, "[Get CTP] was not successful. The order cannot be made in the current horizon" displays and the Projected date field remains unchanged.

See About ATP/CTP Input Dates.

This date also may change every time you run APS Planning. For example, if another order is canceled, some capacity may be available that changes the projected date for this order or item. Or, if the resource that produces an item is off-shift or allocated to a higher-priority order, the projected date for the item changes.