Good question. Since I didn’t design AX, I can’t speak for the people that originally wrote the label. However, I DO know that this term has caused confusion in the past. In fact, I’ve heard for a couple of years that Microsoft was eventually going to come up with a new name for it. Well, our wishes have been granted. In the new Dynamics AX, futures messages have been renamed to calculated delays. You can see this in a couple of places. First, the new master planning workspace shows the “Delay (days)” very clearly to show how delayed a particular planned order will be.