Costing & Business Case

Delivery Promise & Lead-Time Quoting Workbook

From a machine's current backlog and available hours, this workbook estimates the earliest realistic completion date for a new job so your order desk quotes a promise date the shop can actually work toward. Enter committed hours per machine on Current Backlog, then enter a prospective job on New Job Quote to read back an estimated completion date, its queue position behind committed work, and a buffer margin you set yourself. Every backlog figure, available-hours rate, and buffer percentage is your own input — the workbook carries no assumed lead time and no industry benchmark, and the date it returns is an estimate computed from what you enter, not a delivery guarantee.