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Configuration for capex planning: what makes a scheme fall into one category rather than another, and why the money is being spent.

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Category value bands

A scheme is categorised as Clubbed, Specified, Flexible or Project by its value, against a ladder of bands you set — a minimum (inclusive) and a maximum (exclusive), either end open. Bands can be set per division; a band naming a division beats one that doesn’t, most-specific-wins, one category at a time, so two divisions can run entirely different ladders.
A category with no band configured is a category nothing checks — a plan can carry a line in that category and no value-band exception is ever raised against it. And a ladder has to actually be a ladder: two bands that overlap put one value in two categories at once, and a gap between them leaves a value in none. This screen checks the effective ladder — the one a plan is actually measured against, after divisional overrides are applied — rather than the rows as typed.

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Natures of investment

Why the money is being spent — capacity gearing, cost reduction, statutory compliance, and whatever else a division tracks separately. A consolidated plan’s figures are reported under this list, so it’s what those numbers are sliced by. A nature can be scoped to one division or offered to all of them; retiring one leaves the schemes already recorded against it untouched.