Link Procurement Tasks to deliver Just-In-Time without using up slack?

Brett, in addition to the reasons you mention for not ordering and getting stuff asap, such as limited space an the cost of storage, there is also consideration of insurance and warranty dates, and plain ol' cash flow. I've heard it all.

However, so what? You still want to start with a clean asap CPM network.

Of course, MSP does have ways to present what you say you want to display because it has custom fields, custom views, custom filters, custom groups, custom tables.

I would copy the Gantt chart view, call the copy "Intended Order Dates Gantt Chart. Then I would copy the entry table and call the copy "Intended Order Dates Table". Then I would insert a custom start column, say Start1, and rename it "Intended Order Date", which will probably be neither the earliest start or the latest start, but some date in between. Hide all the columns you don't need. You can type in the intended dates or perhaps, better, calculate them as a formula, such as earliest start + half of the total slack (float). Then, in the view, just a matter of formatting the bar styles. Delete all but one of the existing styles, give it a name and a from and to (Start1, Start1).

Any help?