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After a number of years working in Project Controls, and several organisations, I can get my head around Planning and Resources but what i see constant in-fighting, division and confusion around is just how Actual Costs and how actual costs are aligned to the Schedule and with figures from Finance/Cost Control (and the age old Cost Control vs Earned Value/Schedule and Cost misalignment has happened in every organisation I've encountered). So my question to the good people of Planning Planet is this:
What is the one (or best working) way that you have encountered that Actuals should be interepreted and implemented in P6 or should it be outside of P6 and no Actual Costs and hours entered into P6??
I would love to hear the best working example of these as it has long confused me.
Thank you so much :)
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Unit Cost & Production Reporting in Construction Software
After so much effort to collect cost data if you do not include in your reports and schedule model the production data then it is mostly a waste of time and money.
Best regards,
Rafael
Sir Rafael,
Using the Cost Account in P6 for Cost Mapping is also helpful.
Mass Importing of Data from Excel to P6 for Actual Cost is easy to accomplish.
Regards,
Raymund,
Best Regards,
Rafael
Sir Rafael,
If I'm not mistaken, all standalone users are Admin Superuser, hence unrestricted access.
Thanks.
Raymund,
Do you mean that access right are not transferred to stand-alone jobs in P6? But even in stand-alone jobs different users might have different access rights. These access right shall always be transferred by your software within the job files.
Best Regards,
Rafael
Raymund, there are access rights and everybody sees what is permited. The Client has an access to contract costs only but Contractor can see both contract costs and expenses on the same activities in the same model or manage three different but linked models in parallel.
In Spider Project we enter both contract costs and expected expenses when plan our project.
Comparing both people decide if it is profitable to do the project.
Contractors usually have their internal plans that are not the same as contract schedule and budget and apply Earned Value analysis comparing expected (planned but not contractual) and actual costs.
Is it different for P6 users?
Sir Vlad,
In P6, When BUdgeted Units are Loaded with Unit Price, the resulting Amount is called the Planned Value as time distributed.
This Planned Value (it may be called a Baseline Cost) is being compared to the Earned Value while the Project Progresses.
The Actual Cost (Real Expenses) to be recorded Manually in P6, it will be compared to Earned Value and it maybe more or less than the Earned Value.
Hence, Actual Cost is not Planned but Managed in P6.
Thanks.
Raymund,
does it mean that actual costs are not planned and managed in P6?
Hi,
Actual Cost is the real expenses or real amount spent for buying materials, pay wages for labor and pay rental of equipment or amount of depreciated values for contractor's owned eqpt.
This is an internal data for a contractor that shall not be presented to consultant or client.
Hope this will clarify the issue.
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