Planned Percent Complete (PPC)

This dialog presents the basic LPS® PPC metrics as well as other advanced production planning vPlanner metrics that are important for steering production towards targets, namely: Commitment Level (CL), and Percent Required Complete or OnTrack (PRCO).

Reference Material

For a comprehensive review of the metrics available in vPlanner please check the following papers:

IGLC 2016 "Aligning Near Term and Long Term Planning for LPS Implementations, A Review of Existing and New Metrics" by Samir Emdanat and Marcelo Azambuja (https://www.iglc.net/Papers/Details/1253)
LCI Journal 2020: The New LPS® Metrics 2.0: What They Are, Why They Are Needed and Where they are Used by Digby Christian and Mauricio Pereira (https://www.leanconstruction.org/uploads/wp/media/docs/lcj/2020/LCJ_20_008.pdf)

Setting the Date Range

You can use the settings here to configure the visible range (by-date) of the PPC report. The custom option will let you select a specific date range with a start/finish date.

Filters

By default, the graph will show the average PPC for the entire project. You can filter the PPC by Team, Company, or Team Member. Click the reset button towards the bottom to go back to the default filter.

Chart Options

vPlanner provides standard Last Planner System Percent Planned Complete (PPC) metric tracking as well as additional unique metrics to balance near-term and long term planning. To learn more about those metric, please refer to this IGLC paper. We are also pleased to see our metrics included in the upcoming update to the Last Planner System 2.0 by LCI and introduced at the 2019 Congress by Glenn Ballard.

http://www.iglc.net/Papers/Details/1253

Definitions:

Commitment Level (CL): Commitment Level is an advanced LPS® metric that measures a team's ability to start of finish the required tasks for the duration of the work plan. If CL is less than 100% then the team is unable to work on the required tasks and should consider re-planning. The CL metric was recently recognized as a new LPS® in the P2SL 2020 Benchmark. Your goal is to make sure CL = 100%

CL = Committed Required / SHOULD (at the time the workplan is created).

PRC or Ongoing (PRCO): This metric measure if the team completes the appropriate number of required tasks when finalizing the workplan. If PRC is less than 100% then the team must consider re-planning to reduce the late paths.
PRCO = Required DID / SHOULD (at the time the workplan is finalized)

Team PPC: is the standard Percent Planned Complete (PPC) which is the number of completed commitments divided by the total number of commitments. True to how PPC is defined in the literature, this metric does not distinguish between required or backlog activities. In other words, all commitments are treated equal. PPC is a reliability metric. Taken in isolation, it cannot not be used to conclude that the team is meeting their targets. The PPC metric ignores Ongoing tasks.

PPC = DID / (WILL - ONGOING)

Initial PPC (IPPC) This is a vPlanner metric that is identical to PPC at the time workplans are finalized. However, in the period between closing a workplan and starting the next workplan, the status of tasks may change due to user changes. PPC will reflect a realtime-PPC. IPPC remains the same as PPC was at the time the workplan was finalized for comparison reasons. You can think of IPPC as baseline PPC.

PPC or Ongoing (PPCO): This is a vPlanner metrics that includes OnGoing activities in the PPC. You can consider this optimistic PPC, meaning that we project that all ongoning activities will be completed as promised on a future workplan.
PPCO = (Completed + Ongoing) / Committed.

Detailed Reports

The tabs here for Workplan and PPC table provides a view of the detailed data that is used to calculate the metrics in the chart. You may copy and paste from the detailed view into Excel to create your own detailed charts.