How to Start a Scenario on a Specific Date in EDGEBIC

To start a scenario on a specific date in EDGEBIC, open the quote's Scenarios view, tick Custom Start Date in the Production Settings group, set the Start Date, then click Save Changes and Run Simulation. The scenario simulates the job beginning on that date instead of the quote's date. Nothing on the real schedule changes.

A scenario in EDGEBIC by User Solutions is a named what-if variant of a quote's simulation. Custom Start Date is the lever for testing "what if the job could not start until a certain day," most often because raw material or a purchased component arrives then. Setting the start date honestly is what keeps a quoted delivery date truthful when procurement, not capacity, gates the job.

Before You Start

• A quote exists and has been simulated once. Scenarios are children of a quote, and the base simulation is your comparison baseline. See how to create a what-if scenario.
• You know the real earliest start. Usually the material arrival date or a machine availability date.
• You remember scenarios run forward. They start at the scenario's start date and report the finish. A backward quote's framing does not carry into its scenarios.
• You keep a baseline scenario. A default-start Standard scenario is what you compare against.

Step 1: Open the Scenario View

On the Quote tab, select the quote and click Scenarios. The What-If Scenario Analysis view opens. Select an existing scenario or click Create New Scenario and name it after the lever, for example Start after steel arrives.

Step 2: Find the Production Settings Group

On the Scenario Parameters tab, locate the Production Settings group.

Step 3: Tick Custom Start Date and Set the Date

Tick Custom Start Date, then set Start Date:

Set Start Date to the true earliest start, for example the day raw material arrives.

Step 4: Save and Simulate

Click Save Changes, then Run Simulation. Read the Simulation Results: Estimated Start Date, Estimated End Date, Lead Time, Total Hours, and Estimated Cost. Each run overwrites this scenario's stored results, and nothing touches the shop plan.

What Changes When You Save

How to Check It Worked

1. Confirm Custom Start Date is ticked and Start Date shows the day you chose.
2. Click Run Simulation and confirm Estimated Start Date matches your date, not today.
3. Compare the Estimated End Date against the customer's wanted date by hand, since the scenario runs forward and will not right-align to a due date.
4. Open the Comparison Analysis tab, tick this scenario and a default-start baseline, and read the Lead Time chart.

Common Mistakes

Leaving a start date in the past. A past start lets the simulation consume elapsed capacity and finish unrealistically early. Set it to the true earliest start.

Forgetting scenarios run forward. For a finish-by promise, judge the scenario by its Estimated End Date against the customer date; it will not schedule backward.

Not ticking the checkbox. The Start Date only takes effect when Custom Start Date is ticked.

Forgetting to save before simulating. Save Changes stores the settings, and Run Simulation applies them.

Next Steps

Custom Start Date is one of several scenario production settings. To test more capacity, see how to boost a work center's capacity in a scenario, and to understand why scenarios run forward, read forward vs backward scheduling. Compare your what-ifs with how to compare two scenarios side by side. More single-task recipes live in the EDGEBIC how-to hub, and the platform overview is at /edgebic.