This article is part of our CloudSuite Industrial Feature Focus series.

Each post highlights a specific feature within Infor CloudSuite Industrial (CSI). In this one, we’re focusing on Capable to Promise (CTP), a scheduling tool that helps manufacturers commit to ship dates based on real-time, capacity-aware planning.

Here’s what we’re focusing on today:

• Feature: Capable to Promise (CTP)
• Module: Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS)
• Product: Infor CloudSuite Industrial ERP

Capable to Promise Overview

Capable to Promise (CTP) in CloudSuite Industrial (CSI) enables manufacturers to evaluate whether an item can be produced and delivered on time, based on actual capacity and material constraints. Unlike ATP, which assumes infinite capacity, CTP works within your real schedule and considers whether the resources (machines, labor, materials) are truly available to meet the requested date.

CTP is available only when using CSI’s Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) engine in finite mode. This means it respects current resource loads and shift patterns. If a job cannot be completed by the requested date, CSI will provide the next feasible date based on your real-world capacity plan. This makes CTP ideal for companies that want tighter control and realism in their order commitments.

You can run CTP checks from several points in CSI:

• Customer Order Entry
• Estimate Entry
• Job Entry

Expert’s Take: Nick Mendolia on CTP

Nick Mendolia, Director of Client Solutions at Visual South, explains the key distinction:

“Capable to Promise is based on finite capacity in your schedule. It’s looking at a real material and capacity plan and basing availability on that.”

In other words, CTP won’t make promises your shop can’t keep. If there's no time available, CSI won’t just suggest a theoretical date—it will provide a schedule-aware answer.

Nick also points out that while ATP might say, “You can do this if you move something,” CTP is stricter: “It says you can’t do it if there’s no capacity to do it. Here's when you can.”

For manufacturers who want the system to take the lead in scheduling and job release timing, CTP is the better fit. It automates delivery date recommendations and gives realistic guidance during quoting and order entry.

Capable to Promise (CTP) Micro Demo

Want to see how CTP works in CloudSuite Industrial? Watch this short micro-demo, part of our 20-video demo series on CSI.

Related CloudSuite Industrial Resources

• Available to Promise (ATP)
• Infinite vs. Finite Scheduling
• Backward vs. Forward Scheduling
• What-if Planning

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