Lead time chart

The lead time chart provides you with a graphic display and planning of project activities in a "Gantt chart". The lead time chart displays the phases and activities of the projects as horizontal bars along a time axis.

The lead time chart displays a project together with its sub-projects, if any. At the bottom of the chart you also see linked manufacturing orders, customer order, and purchase orders, if any, if you wish to display these.

You can replan project and visually move it in time along the time axis by dragging and dropping the bar for a phase or an activity. It is also possible to extend or shorten the time of an activity by getting a hold of one end of the bar (the start or the finish time) and drag it with the pointer.

It is possible to decide that phases or activities must be performed in a specific order. This is done by linking the phases/activities to each other. By using different dependency types you can create dependencies between two or more activities and decide which type of dependency that should exist between them. Dependencies can be added when the Show dependencies button is active. Please note! There is a limitation which makes it possible for a project to either have dependencies between activities or dependencies between phases. Read more about dependency types here.

Using the navigation buttons on the rows, you can in a quick and easy way go to a bar which is outside the visual section of the time axis.

View

Here you select if the lead time chart should be displayed as an Overview or as a Status view.

Scale

Here you can select the scale of the lead time chart. You can choose to display per Day, Week, Month or Quarter. The lead time chart saves the most recently used scale to be used the next time the user opens the procedure.

Show

With this setting you decide which levels will be shown in the chart. It also determines if different types of orders/order rows should be shown in the chart.

Under the tab called Phases/Activities it is also possible to use the button Show lead time chart to open a separate window for the lead time chart. Also, the phases/activities in the list are interconnected with the chart. This means the changes you make in the list will update the chart in real time, and the other way around. As you add activities in the list, you see how the bars are affected in the chart. The advantage of having the Lead time chart in a separate window is that you can e.g. show it on a different screen/monitor.

There is support to show up to three levels for the manufacturing order, just like projects. For customer order and purchase order, two levels are shown.