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Contract kickoff plan

Turns an order or contract you have just won into a plan with dates, owners, long-lead items and the things most likely to make it late.

Updated September 16, 2026 · Operations · In the $399 library

What you get

A phased plan with milestones, owners, long-lead items, customer dependencies, risks and a kickoff agenda.

What you need to hand

• What you have agreed to deliver and by when: the purchase order, contract or accepted quote
• The capacity you have: people, machine hours, trucks, subcontractors
• What you need from the customer and when: drawing approval, first-article sign-off, forecasts, dock access
• Payment terms and what has gone wrong on jobs like this before

How you might ask

We won a $180k order: 6,000 machined brackets, first article in three weeks, deliveries weekly from November 14. Tooling is 5 weeks out and the customer has not approved the drawing revision. Plan it.