NIV WORK / PLANNING

Planning & Rehearsal

Plan the next 8–12 weeks. Preview a fictional launch, compare disruptions and review changes before anyone approves work.

Your company

Choose the organization to view and create plans.

Choose organization

Create a plan

Set up a new plan with your goals, timeline, and key details.

Plan name

Start date

What are we trying to achieve?Length

Saved plans

Choose an organization to see plans.

Edit plan

Name

Status

Goal

Generate a first draft

Start with a manufacturing launch template. Review the proposed dates before creating tasks. Nothing is automatically approved.

Add work item

Task

Responsible department

Start

Finish

Estimated effort (hours)

Employee capacity and availability

Enter or review weekly hours. This does not book calendars or make staffing decisions.

Team member

Week starting Monday

Skill

Available hours this week

Already committed hours

Rehearse a disruption

Explore a supplier delay or employee absence without changing your plan. These are simple estimates, not full dependency forecasts.

Scenario name

Supplier delay (days)

Affected supplier team

Unavailable employee (optional)

Absence start

Absence end

Compare scenarios

Choose two scenarios to compare delays and warnings side by side.

Scenario A

Scenario B

Team discussion

Leave a note for your team about the plan or a specific task.

Related task (optional)Comment

Department approvals

Owner submits the draft. The assigned Owner, Engineering and Quality approvers must each approve. Changes requested return the plan to draft.

Approval or change request note

Publish approved plan to NIV Work

Only approved plans can be published. Choose an existing Work project; publishing again will not create duplicates.

Work project

Publication requires a formally approved plan. NIV creates linked issues in your selected NIV Work project and prevents duplicate publication. Later changes in NIV Work are not yet synchronized back automatically.

Connected business records

Link an existing Supplier, PLM, Quality or Finance record by ID. Records must belong to this company. Linking does not modify those records.

Record typeExisting record IDHow does this record affect the plan?

PLM ↗Quality ↗Suppliers ↗Finance ↗

Delay alerts and recovery suggestions

Check overdue tasks and estimated delays. Suggestions do not change your approved plan or notify colleagues.

12-week timeline

Dates are entered by your team. Automatic conflict checks are not active yet.