Scenarios

A Scenario lets you experiment with different timelines for your capital projects and equipment replacements without changing anything in your live plan.

What you can change in a scenario

Within a scenario, you can override:

• Capital Project start and end dates
• Planned equipment replacement dates

These overrides only exist inside that scenario — your actual projects and replacement plans are untouched until you decide to apply changes for real.

Comparing scenarios

You can view multiple scenarios side by side using a cost heatmap and fiscal-year cost breakdowns, which makes it easier to see how shifting a project's timeline changes which fiscal years absorb the cost. Costs can be shown with or without inflation adjustment applied.

A worked example

Say you have three large projects estimated to land in the same fiscal year, creating a budget spike. You create a scenario that pushes one project's start date out by a year, then compare the heatmap against your original plan — the spike flattens out, spreading the cost across two fiscal years instead of one. If that timeline looks better, you'd go update the real project's dates directly — the scenario itself is for comparison, not a live plan.