A planning period is an interval in which requests and approvals are targeted at. An example would be a month or a quarter. Requests and approvals are made prior in anticipation for the period prior to it’s commencement.
For most of our clients, the planning period is anchored to their planning cadence such as their quarterly business review cycle (QBR). In doing so this allows us to configure Planner in such a way that demand leads have a specified amount of time to put in their requests before it is locked from them and supply leads will have their specified amount of time to go into Planner to review and approve the requests so that any outstanding requests / competing priorities can be surfaced at the client’s QBR marketplace.
However there are situations where clients do not prefer this locking mechanism and would prefer Planner to be turned on 24/7 and this is what we call ‘continuous planning’. Whilst this is possible, there are implications to how we do reporting and baseline calculations.
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