Update per Physical % complete. Go to Resource profile. Select all activities. Select All Resources. Drag the S Curve to fill window. Select any of many criteria for report (Labor, Non-Labor, Cost, To-date, Baseline, as Planned, Actual or Remaining values), set print up, get S Curve for selected criteria.

Or in same Reource profile, select a resource. Select All activities. Use the S Curve window. Fine tume the lines.

There is a lot of variation available in this report.

A completely different problem is are there enough resources to complete in the baseline duration? You have to define calculation for activities to calculate resource production based on % complete. This changes activity remaining duration for original resources. At calculation you will be asked to update resource usage and activity durations? Yes.

This will cut actual duration, costs and add availability of resources for efficiencies or add activity remaining duration, cost and resource availabilty for delays. Your critical path will reflect all impacts with resource usage. Your other subs will start counting delays for REA claims, which they will win, so just pay them and save on lawyers.

Efficiencies may not affect anything if the next resource starts as planned.

If the effiencies were a new production rate based on actual performance of the sub's B Team, the sub may bring in the C Team to match performance to schedule requirements. Costs do not change, plan is met, all is well.

If the resource is not meeting the plan and is the sub's B Team, bringing in the A Team will regain production and also not change costs. The plan is met.

You can mitigate Risks by adding temp resources at bottlenecks to regain your plan. Adding temp resources to an activity regains progress for short term issues like late material and crews that were standing around waiting. This impacts costs. An acceleration may be required to regain the plan by keeping the temps on for a week or two. Last Planner may make shared workspace available for successors to keep their schedules and eliminate REAs.

Hi Moe,

I understand that the excersie cannot be repeated again as you have already allocated resources :). And ya, as far as my understanding goes you can get progress curves from material resources. What kind of curves are you talking about for material resources.

Regards

Amit Parmar

P6 seems like a Primitive on a Tuxedo.

Machines as well as labor can produce work, come on no matter how bad it is, it shall do better.

Perhaps the US Congress and the US Supreme Court has declared Machines with the same status as humans, same as they did with Corporations 

Shareef and Moe,

In P6 there are ways of recalculating Budgeted Quantities, for the Remaining Duration when you have a fixed units/time...

It has been some time since we stopped using Primavera products, we used mostly SureTrak which was very limited and even had no cost accounts functionality, we had to mimic cost accounts with resources, a non leveling resource per cost account. I am not sure but believe some SureTrak settings for recalculating quantities were settings across the board and that was such a limitation that in many cases we had to abandon the idea. As you can see Spider provides for direct calculation of what moe is asking and perhaps there is still a similar way under P6, but this I do not know.

Within SureTrak I had no cost accounts and now with Spider Project I can assign a single resource multiple cost accounts each with a different unit price, this in combination to cost centers would segregate the costs for my reports but P6 is different. Here your help will be of great value.

Regards,

Rafael

Moe,

I believe you want to make man-hours or resource-hours to predict % complete if this is the case then maybe you can do the trick using cost accounts, but first you need a budget to determine your %.

I do not use P6 but believe there is a possibility the idea can be adapted as for cost represent units:

Budget Units >>>> Budget Cost

Actual Units   >>>> Actual Cost = resource hours x unit cost

Unit cost can be 1.00 for all resources if any resource hour has the same weight.

% complete = Actual/Budget (beware that if over budget "% complete" can be more than 100%)

About the % I do not know what are the options in P6 but understand too many as to make crazy anyone, therefore you shall have a predefined way to determine your percentages to make up for the lack of formulas that allow others to define their own % ratios. Here someone knowledgeable of P6 must take over.

Hope this helps,

Rafael

Hello Moe,

I have worked out an example with screen shots, which hopefully might be of some use to you. There are 11 Screen shots and as such I cannot paste it here.

Just pass me your email id through PP private mail.

I still feel your consultant wants an Apple-Banana-Orange Cocktail specifying not to use Bananas & Oranges.

Great to know you have worked here in Dubai :)

I have also considered relocating to a near by GCC country in a months time.

Best regards

Shareef A Azeez

Hi Rafael,

I feel Moe, has another situation at hand!!

He has already loaded all the resources with corresponding units pertime period (productivity), and might even have loaded cost for all the resources.

Now I guess he finds it difficult to update all the resources together. For eg:. Labour can easily be updated, but actual material usage , it requires a little more effort (an he wants the programme to update materials automatically).

The method you have mentioned is possible in P6.

He just has to use: % complete type as 'Units'.

Best Regards

Shareef A Azeez