How the gate works
This tool grades a shop's on-time-delivery rate against what it first promised, not what it re-promised. It scores 1 weighted controls into a 0–100 number — then a gate that can only make the verdict worse.
The 1 weighted controls
A key-account order re-promised 2 or more times forces PROMISE INFLATION regardless of the OTD score - repeated re-promising on the accounts that matter most is exactly what a clean-looking rate can hide.
Why: Nine of twelve orders shipped by the date first promised - a 75% OTD that would read QUIETLY SLIDING on its own. But key-account order ORD-7141 has been re-promised 3 times, so the tripwire fires and forces PROMISE INFLATION regardless of the rate. Measured against the current, re-promised dates the same book reads a deceptively clean 92%.
A high score didn’t save it. The score is context; the gate is the answer — and it names the one thing to fix first. Grades delivery dates against your own records, never people. Runs offline in the workbook and engine.