Answer the customer's delivery question from one timeline

What this module does

A customer calls Friday afternoon asking when their order will ship. Components Timeline lays the project's production and purchase rows on one week grid. The project manager reads the answer in the same minute, and can point at the component that is the constraint.

Key pages

Project shows a single project as a week-by-week timeline. Production rows span their planned dates, purchase rows span order to in-house dates, and progress follows what has actually been posted and received. The active bill of materials is chosen automatically, so the plan reflects the version that will be built. An operation still under way can be replanned in place by moving its anchor date; the change writes back to Business Central and the timeline redraws. Beside the timeline, an on-time delivery view tracks every open sales line as promised date against projected date, charting the ratio over time.

When a vendor pushes a date, the project manager sees it move on the timeline the same day, calls the customer before sales hears about it, and offers a new date that comes from the same source as the production order. Project sponsors and executives read the on-time ratio at the start of each week. Sales books the next quote against the dates the timeline shows. The Friday afternoon call ends in five minutes.