Operations / Manufacturing
Schedule Attainment vs Adherence
Attainment asks whether you made the planned quantity; adherence asks whether you made exactly what was scheduled, in the right mix and sequence.
The fork, why two teams get different numbers
Attainment is quantity against plan (did the total come out?).
In the Metric Library
- The full fork, both definitions worked all the way through
- The trap that makes the number lie, on a real export
- Every formula variant, spelled out
- The reconciliation anchor, what to tie it to and when to refuse
Reference: APICS/ASCM master-scheduling convention ยท Lean production-linearity practice