By specifying a single target date you can generate a timeline based on business rules.
Organisations will typically have a standard period between specific milestones. By understanding those periods, customisation can happen to allow the timeline generation to be inline with the rules of your organisation.
This is intended to be a high level indication of how the procurement progress is expected to be. To keep this flexible, the dates can also be manually adjusted.
The system has a tool for building template periods and can be configured by Admins and managed per type of procurement. This supports any number of dates if required.