Transparent procurement calculator
Calculate planning scenarios
Enter your own operating data. Required public inputs intentionally begin blank; the visible assumptions are editable. No input is stored or sent.
Your planning results appear here
Complete the required inputs and choose Calculate scenarios. Empty values are never treated as zero.
Coordination time, loaded labor value, and approval-delay exposure
Conservative, expected, and high-opportunity time views
Equivalent workdays, assumptions, and planning boundaries
Your assumptions remain editable. Results are neutral planning scenarios, never guaranteed outcomes.
This estimator provides planning scenarios from your inputs and editable assumptions. It is not a quote, commitment, forecast, or guarantee. Actual scope, adoption, cost, timing, and outcomes depend on the customer environment and implementation.
Methodology
- The model counts active follow-up and exception work. It does not treat elapsed approval delay as labor.
- Every scenario rate is editable and represents activity the user believes could be reduced, redirected, or standardized.
- Labor value is not the same as budget reduction; it may represent capacity, faster response, reduced rework, or lower external cost.
- Revenue, cost of delay, avoided risk, and procurement savings are outside this model.
Formula inventory (12)
annual_follow_up_hoursannual_exception_requestsannual_exception_hoursestimated_coordination_hoursestimated_coordination_labor_costapproval_delay_exposurescenario_avoidable_follow_up_hoursscenario_avoidable_exception_hoursscenario_total_avoidable_hoursscenario_labor_valuescenario_remaining_coordination_hoursscenario_equivalent_workdays