Help · What-if scenarios
If this shipment is late, what happens?
The What-if screen takes a shipment that has not arrived and a number of days, and runs the Control Tower's own stockout and coverage arithmetic twice — once as things stand, once with the arrival pushed out. The difference is the answer. Nothing is changed by asking.
Reading the result
The change is the decision, not the level.
Each material on the shipment is shown with its stockout risk now and if late, the change in points, and the day the stock runs out under each. A material already at 90% that the delay moves to 91% is not the one to expedite; the one at 12% that goes to 61% is. Below the materials are the production orders and customer orders that depend on them, the customers behind those orders, the revenue at risk, and — where every figure needed is present — an expected impact weighted by the worst material's post-delay risk.
Hover a figure for the formula that produced it. Every one is the formula the Control Tower prints beside the same number.
What it will not size
Said rather than skipped.
A shipment with no purchase order lines has no materials to model. A material with no stock position has no risk to change. A shipment already delivered cannot be delayed. Each of these is stated on the result, in a sentence, with what to load to make it computable. The screen offers only shipments that have not arrived, because the question has no answer for one that has.