Methodology
Quote Win Capacity Planner methodology
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Update policy: Reviewed when formulas or official dependencies change.
Scope: Market-neutral small-business planning using your own assumptions.
1. Formulas and units
deliverableWins = min(expected wins, capacity-supported wins)Where
- deliverableWins
- Deliverable Wins (count)Source: Calculated output
- expectedWins
- Expected Wins (count)Source: Calculated output
- capacitySupportedWins
- Capacity Supported Wins (count)Source: Calculated output
expectedWins = quotes ร expected win rateWhere
- expectedWinRate
- Expected win rate (proportion of submitted quotes won)Source: User assumption
- expectedWins
- Expected Wins (count)Source: Calculated output
requiredDeliveryHours = expected wins ร delivery hours per winWhere
- deliveryHoursPerWin
- Delivery hours per win (hours/win)Source: User assumption
- expectedWins
- Expected Wins (count)Source: Calculated output
- requiredDeliveryHours
- Required Delivery Hours (hours/period)Source: Calculated output
capacitySupportedWins = floor(available hours รท delivery hours per win)Where
- deliveryHoursPerWin
- Delivery hours per win (hours/win)Source: User assumption
- availableDeliveryHours
- Available delivery hours (hours/period)Source: User assumption
- capacitySupportedWins
- Capacity Supported Wins (count)Source: Calculated output
capacityGapHours = available hours โ required hoursWhere
- capacityGapHours
- Capacity Gap Hours (hours/period)Source: Calculated output
deliverableContribution = deliverable wins ร contribution per winWhere
- contributionPerWin
- Contribution per win (currency units/win)Source: User assumption
- deliverableWins
- Deliverable Wins (count)Source: Calculated output
- deliverableContribution
- Deliverable Contribution (currency units/period)Source: Calculated output
Money inputs and outputs use the currency selected in the scenario without changing the canonical methodology. Rates, margins, utilisation and buffers are entered as percentages and converted to decimal values for calculation.
2. Worked example
Input assumptions
The worked rows are rendered from the registered engine and visible default fixture.
- Quotes per period
- 20 quotes/period
- Expected win rate
- 0.5 proportion of submitted quotes won
- Delivery hours per win
- 30 hours/win
- Available delivery hours
- 240 hours/period
- Contribution per win
- 1,000 currency units/win
Calculation and outputs
deliverableWins
deliverableWins = min(expected wins, capacity-supported wins)- Expected win rate
- 0.5 proportion of submitted quotes won
- expectedWins
- 10 declared output unit
- capacitySupportedWins
- 8 declared output unit
- capacityGapHours
- -60 declared output unit
Engine result: 8
expectedWins
expectedWins = quotes ร expected win rate- Quotes per period
- 20 quotes/period
- Expected win rate
- 0.5 proportion of submitted quotes won
- Delivery hours per win
- 30 hours/win
- Contribution per win
- 1,000 currency units/win
Engine result: 10
requiredDeliveryHours
requiredDeliveryHours = expected wins ร delivery hours per win- Expected win rate
- 0.5 proportion of submitted quotes won
- Delivery hours per win
- 30 hours/win
- Available delivery hours
- 240 hours/period
- Contribution per win
- 1,000 currency units/win
- deliverableWins
- 8 declared output unit
- expectedWins
- 10 declared output unit
- capacitySupportedWins
- 8 declared output unit
- capacityGapHours
- -60 declared output unit
Engine result: 300
capacitySupportedWins
capacitySupportedWins = floor(available hours รท delivery hours per win)- Expected win rate
- 0.5 proportion of submitted quotes won
- Delivery hours per win
- 30 hours/win
- Available delivery hours
- 240 hours/period
- Contribution per win
- 1,000 currency units/win
- requiredDeliveryHours
- 300 declared output unit
- capacityGapHours
- -60 declared output unit
Engine result: 8
capacityGapHours
capacityGapHours = available hours โ required hours- Delivery hours per win
- 30 hours/win
- Available delivery hours
- 240 hours/period
- requiredDeliveryHours
- 300 declared output unit
Engine result: -60
deliverableContribution
deliverableContribution = deliverable wins ร contribution per win- Expected win rate
- 0.5 proportion of submitted quotes won
- Delivery hours per win
- 30 hours/win
- Contribution per win
- 1,000 currency units/win
- deliverableWins
- 8 declared output unit
- expectedWins
- 10 declared output unit
- capacitySupportedWins
- 8 declared output unit
Engine result: 8,000
Example
The worked rows are rendered from the registered engine and visible default fixture.
- Expected Wins
- 10
- Required Delivery Hours
- 300 hours/period
- Capacity Supported Wins
- 8
- Deliverable Wins
- 8
- Capacity Gap Hours
- -60 hours/period
- Deliverable Contribution
- 8,000 currency units/period
The exact engine-derived outputs are shown in the labelled rows below.
Interpretation
The quote win capacity result uses only the entered commercial assumptions.
3. Validation and boundary checks
- Inputs must be finite and remain within the visible boundaries.
- Rates are decimal values and all monetary inputs use one consistent currency and period.
- Whole operational capacity is rounded only where the engine explicitly applies floor or ceiling.
- Quotes per period minimum
quotesPerPeriod โฅ 0 quotes/periodโ A lower value is rejected before calculation.- Quotes per period maximum
quotesPerPeriod โค 10,000,000 quotes/periodโ A higher value is rejected before calculation.- Expected win rate minimum
expectedWinRate โฅ 0 proportion of submitted quotes wonโ A lower value is rejected before calculation.- Expected win rate maximum
expectedWinRate โค 0.99 proportion of submitted quotes wonโ A higher value is rejected before calculation.- Delivery hours per win minimum
deliveryHoursPerWin โฅ 0 hours/winโ A lower value is rejected before calculation.- Delivery hours per win maximum
deliveryHoursPerWin โค 10,000,000 hours/winโ A higher value is rejected before calculation.- Available delivery hours minimum
availableDeliveryHours โฅ 0 hours/periodโ A lower value is rejected before calculation.- Available delivery hours maximum
availableDeliveryHours โค 10,000,000 hours/periodโ A higher value is rejected before calculation.- Contribution per win minimum
contributionPerWin โฅ 0 currency units/winโ A lower value is rejected before calculation.- Contribution per win maximum
contributionPerWin โค 10,000,000 currency units/winโ A higher value is rejected before calculation.
4. Assumptions and source classification
- All costs, prices, hours, probabilities and volumes are user-supplied; no market benchmark is inferred.
- Tax is outside these neutral commercial comparisons.
- The engine retains full precision; formatting never feeds back into calculation.
This planner has no current policy-data dependency. Its commercial assumptions are user supplied. Registered family-level regression suites exercise the shared business-logic engine and worked-result reconciliation.
5. Limitations
- The model does not predict demand, delivery performance, contract enforceability or customer behaviour.
- It does not replace accounting, tax, legal or financial advice.
This is educational decision support, not tax, accounting, legal or financial advice. Check the treatment of your actual transactions under the rules that apply to your business and seek qualified advice where appropriate.
6. Update and evidence policy
Registered family-level suites test formula invariants and example reconciliation; the release ledger records that coverage without claiming a separate oracle for every line of public copy. There is no official threshold or benchmark to refresh for this planner. Commercial inputs remain user-supplied because they vary by business and contract.
Change history
- : Initial public release of the planner and methodology after pre-launch calculation, content, source and interaction review.
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