Supplier and payroll payment planning

Methods and settings

Choose what the payment profile distributes

Linked model preserves the existing supplier/AP cash baseline. When applying a supplier Timing Profile, Source mapping determines the economic amounts being moved: purchases, COGS excluding payroll or Model AP cash payments. The same percentage offsets then apply to each weekly source cohort. Review opening inventory/AP when choosing the basis; moving purchases is not always equivalent to moving already-derived AP cash.

Separate linked Payroll once

Payroll uses active Personnel sources in detailed operating groups. Personnel included in COGS is excluded from supplier cohorts and shown separately, avoiding duplicate classification. Linked Payroll follows the Model’s headcount/compensation economics; a Timing Profile changes when those costs are paid. The other operating cash rows preserve the remaining reconciliation, so they should be inspected when the source structure changes.

Payroll without a Personnel model

Payroll can instead use Manual Weekly, Fixed / Recurring or Dated Payments without a Personnel source. Enter independent expected amounts, payment dates and comments in the plan. For example, a fixed monthly payroll can be entered as an amount per payment with monthly cadence and a pay day from 1 to 28. This does not create staff, salary expense or headcount in Model.

Review existing operating payments

If the Model already includes aggregate payroll inside SG&A or other operating payments, adding an independent Payroll line may duplicate that cash unless the overlapping operational line is adjusted. The absence of a Personnel source does not prove payroll is absent from aggregate costs. Compare the linked Model baseline and total disbursements before and after the change, and document the operational reclassification with comments.

Taxes, capex and debt service

Taxes and Capex start from linked payments but can use the independent/timing options actually offered for each row. Debt interest, contractual repayments and facility movements remain locked financing sources. Change loan terms in Financing, not by adding an offsetting payroll or supplier payment. All operational changes remain in the plan and do not automatically change the Model’s expense, tax or asset schedules.