Capacity planning · The demand plan · Element
The horizon check
Whether the plan reaches far enough ahead to act on.
The part
What it is
Comparing the planning horizon with capacity lead time is a one-line check that most organisations have never performed.
Where the horizon is shorter, the capacity decision is being made by default, and saying so is more useful than extending the forecast artificially.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.