Services
What actually threatens completion?
Review procurement events against programme dependencies, available float, and downstream activities to assess which delays may be absorbed — and which may affect completion.
PROCUREMENT EVENT
DEPENDENCY
FLOAT
CASCADE
COMPLETION
The problem
A delay is not the same thing as programme impact.
Two suppliers can report similar delays while creating completely different consequences. The difference is where each event sits in the programme, how much float remains, and what downstream work depends on it.
DELAY A
Facade panels
AVAILABLE FLOAT
6 weeks
PROGRAMME EXPOSURE
Low
DELAY B
Structural steel
AVAILABLE FLOAT
0 days
PROGRAMME EXPOSURE
High
The number of days lost is not enough to understand the risk. The question is where those days sit in the programme.
The programme ripple
Follow one procurement event through the work it can affect.
A supplier event becomes useful information when it is connected to the activities downstream.
PROCUREMENT EVENT
Switchgear delivery
Supplier reports a 7-day movement.
EVENT MOVEMENT
+7 days
Electrical installation
SUCCESSOR ACTIVITY
Testing & commissioning
SUCCESSOR ACTIVITY
Services completion
SUCCESSOR ACTIVITY
Practical completion
SUCCESSOR ACTIVITY
What MorrnIx evaluates
Four questions before a procurement issue becomes a programme problem.
DEPENDENCY
What depends on it?
Connect the procurement event to the construction activity or milestone it affects.
FLOAT
How much flexibility remains?
Separate a delay that can be absorbed from one consuming the programme's available float.
CASCADE
What moves next?
Trace affected successor activities instead of treating every supplier delay in isolation.
CONSEQUENCE
Does completion move?
Surface whether the event creates meaningful programme exposure and needs attention.
Programme exposure
Not every delay deserves the same response.
ABSORBABLE
No current programme impact
NEAR-CRITICAL
Programme exposure emerging
CRITICAL
Immediate attention required
How it works
Map the programme. Correlate the procurement. Test the consequence.
Map
Establish the relevant programme activities, milestones, dependencies and procurement dates.
Correlate
Connect supplier commitments and emerging procurement issues to the activities they affect.
Test
Assess float, successor relationships and the potential downstream effect of the event.
Prioritise
Surface procurement issues based on actual programme exposure, not generic urgency.
In practice
A supplier delay becomes useful information when it is put against the programme.
Illustrative example based on the workflow we are validating — not a specific named client engagement.
SUPPLIER EVENT
Switchgear delivery moves
The supplier reports a 7-day movement against the current commitment.
+7 days
PROGRAMME CORRELATION
The finding is not simply that the supplier is late. It is that the remaining programme flexibility may not absorb the movement.
Programmes change
The programme you analysed last week may not be the programme you are managing today.
When sequencing, acceleration, scope or other programme logic changes, exposure can move with it. Impact needs to be re-correlated against the current programme.
WEEK 12
Steel
Critical activity
WEEK 16
Facade
Critical activity
WEEK 20
Commissioning
Critical activity
Who this is for
Built for the people deciding what gets attention.
Project Manager
“Which procurement issue can actually move my completion date?”
Construction Manager
“Which delayed item affects the next workfront?”
Planner / Project Controls
“Where is float being consumed?”
Project Director
“Which risks can become programme problems?”
Today and tomorrow
Manual programme correlation today. Connected intelligence tomorrow.
Today
We receive the current programme and procurement information, then manually connect supplier events to relevant activities, float and programme exposure.
Tomorrow
A future connected platform could relate procurement commitments and programme changes to the latest schedule. Today, this service uses manual review to relate the supplied information to relevant activities, float, and potential exposure.
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