MA.Preface:3 - A model that changes the next decision

In MA.1’s constructed test-order case, 100 accepted units require 26–29 rig-hours. The supplied arrangement has 20 usable hours and one additional ten-hour block costing 240. Materials and supplier use add 300. The model therefore supplies 540 of additional payments, rather than the report’s 1,500 assigned cost.

OPS.14 uses those quantities and the stated absence of displacement to compare the 1,200 receipt with 540, giving 660. Its funding question uses the whole timed cash position. Under the example’s explicit baseline-cash premise, 440 is paid now, 100 is due on day 7 and the receipt arrives on day 28; a 40 day-7 funding gap remains. The favorable comparison and the unresolved funding are both useful results.

Other entries change different actions. MA.4 explains how inventory and receivables connect profit to cash. MA.6 preserves an expectation of 100, ambition of 120, request for provision covering 130 and authorization covering 110. MA.8 distinguishes the recovery of past acquisition or development payments from a new continuation choice. MA-E4 joins two cohorts before testing the common capacity and payment dates. A reader does not have to reconstruct the order model to use these methods.