Advanced Planning, Scheduling & APS worked example

Late Order Exposure at 50% schedule-attributable exposure: a worked example

Suppose schedule-attributable exposure falls to 50%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Estimate financial exposure from late production orders using late-order count, penalty or margin exposure, responsibility share, and customer recovery cost.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Late or at-risk orders: 12 orders (held at the documented default)
  • Exposure per late order: 850 $ / order (held at the documented default)
  • Schedule-attributable exposure: 50 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 70)
  • Customer recovery cost: 1,500 $ (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Schedule-attributable late exposure = late orders × exposure per late order × schedule-attributable exposure.
  • Late order exposure works out to 6,600 $ late exposure at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Exposure per late order works out to 550 $ / order at these inputs.
  • Schedule-attributable late exposure works out to 5,100 $ late exposure at these inputs.
  • Customer recovery cost works out to 1,500 $ at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where schedule-attributable exposure sits at 70% and the headline result is 8,640 $ late exposure, this scenario comes in 23.61% below the baseline at 6,600 $ late exposure.
  • It computes the total dollar exposure from late orders as schedule-attributable exposure (orders x exposure per order x attributable share) plus a fixed customer recovery cost. When the numbers land here, the stressed input is the lever to work; the walkthrough above shows exactly how much each output recovers as it climbs back toward the baseline.

Results at a glance

  • Late order exposure: 6,600 $ late exposure (headline result)
  • Exposure per late order: 550 $ / order
  • Schedule-attributable late exposure: 5,100 $ late exposure
  • Customer recovery cost: 1,500 $

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Late Order Exposure calculator, set schedule-attributable exposure to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.