Deleting a Quote Scenario You No Longer Need in EDGEBIC

Deleting a scenario removes that scenario and the overrides stored on it, and nothing else. In EDGEBIC by User Solutions the parent quote, the product's routing, your work centers, and the live production schedule are all untouched by the delete. That makes pruning a quote's scenario list one of the safest housekeeping jobs in the product, and it is worth doing, because a quote carrying a dozen half-explored what-ifs is a quote nobody can read.

Before you start

Know two things before you remove anything.

Know which scenario you actually sent. Open the quote and read its estimated end date and cost, then match those figures against the scenario list. Applying a scenario copies its results onto the quote, so the numbers on the quote tell you which scenario won. That one is your decision record.

Know that a scenario cannot be rebuilt from memory. A scenario stores parameters and the results of its last run. Running it again days later works against a shop that has moved on, so the same overrides can return a different date. Deleting is not reversible by re-creating.

How to delete a scenario

1. On the Quote tab, select the quote and click Scenarios to open the What-If Scenario Analysis view.
2. In the scenario list on the left, select the scenario you want to remove.
3. Use Delete Scenario.
4. Repeat for each scenario you are pruning, then use Back to Quotes to return to the grid.

That is the whole procedure. There is no separate cleanup step, because a scenario owns nothing outside itself.

What survives the delete

This is the part worth internalizing, because planners hesitate here and leave clutter behind.

The reason the blast radius is this small is the same reason scenarios are useful in the first place. A scenario is a named set of altered conditions plus the stored output of running them. It never reserved capacity, never edited a machine, and never placed a job. Read the wider boundary in what a scenario can and cannot change in EDGEBIC.

How to check it worked

Three checks, in order.

1. The scenario list is shorter and the scenario you removed is gone from the left panel.
2. The quote still reads the same. Go back to the quote grid and confirm the estimated start, end, hours, and cost are exactly what they were. If you deleted a scenario you had applied, this is the check that proves applying wrote the numbers onto the quote permanently.
3. The comparison still draws. Open the Comparison Analysis tab and tick the scenarios you kept. The lead time, cost, and utilization charts should render one bar per ticked scenario, with the deleted one simply absent. Only simulated scenarios can be included, so if a survivor will not tick, run its simulation rather than assuming the delete broke something.

Common mistakes

Deleting the baseline. The no-override scenario is the least interesting to look at and the most important to keep. Without it a comparison has no zero point, and you lose the record of what doing nothing would have cost. Keep it until the quote is closed.

Deleting the applied scenario too early. The quote keeps the numbers, but it does not keep the reasoning. Six weeks on, when a customer asks why you promised that date, the scenario named after its lever is the answer. Delete probes freely; keep the winner until the quote converts or dies.

Treating delete as a fix for a stale result. If a scenario's numbers look wrong because you changed its parameters and did not re-run it, the fix is to run the simulation again, not to delete and rebuild. Applying an unsimulated or edited scenario is refused with a message telling you to simulate first, which is the system pointing at the real problem.

Letting the list grow instead of pruning as you go. Two to four scenarios per quote is the working range: a baseline plus one per lever you would genuinely execute. Beyond that the comparison charts get crowded and the names stop meaning anything. Delete a probe when it loses, not in a cleanup pass six weeks later. Naming each scenario after its lever rather than its number makes the pruning decision obvious.

Next steps

Once the list is down to a baseline and a winner, the remaining work is on the quote, not the scenarios. Confirm the winning numbers reached the quote by following how to apply a scenario to a quote, re-price if the cost moved, and remember that applying a scenario is not the same as making the change real on the floor. If you sold a second shift on the mill, someone still has to arrange it. For the shape of a clean comparison see how to compare two scenarios side by side, for the levers themselves see boosting a work center's capacity in a quote scenario, and for the traps that produce eleven-scenario quotes in the first place see scenario planning mistakes.

The takeaway

Delete a scenario the moment it stops earning its place. The operation removes that scenario and its overrides and touches nothing else, so there is no risk to the quote, the routing, the work centers, or the schedule. Keep the baseline, keep the scenario you sent, and delete the probes as they lose. See the full quoting flow in the EDGEBIC quoting guide, or bring a real enquiry to a walkthrough of EDGEBIC and we will build the comparison with you.