Find what is missing
- Confirm the project and date in Earned Value.
- If the WO says To qualify, open Work Orders → Edit. Existing WOs need an explicit decision about the current budget; an estimate or approval does not fill it automatically. Follow the qualification steps, save and refresh EVM.
- If it says Not applied, check approval and status. Only WOs approved on or before the current business date, with status In progress or Completed, contribute. Open or Deferred WOs remain outside the calculation; Canceled WOs are excluded.
- If all approved WOs are qualified but the projection remains blank, check the financial-data warnings and ask your project controller to review the missing source. Do not replace an unavailable amount with zero or alter costs merely to remove the warning.
PO to prepare is a purchasing follow-up, not a missing forecast decision. A qualified, approved WO can contribute without a linked PO. See PO follow-up.
An approved WO with an unreviewed impact, or incomplete financial data, leaves the project EAC and remaining cost unavailable. Historical WO forecasts require a saved snapshot; today’s decisions are not applied retroactively.