Using resources instead of expenses to track payments

Hello eveyone,

I need help figuring out how to set up a resource to track an expense that is paid out in installments.

Currently I have to create four different activities in a WBS and assign the corresponding expense for that timeline. I want to be able to assign a resource to a single activity and split how the payments are actually made to the vendor as these are large dollar amounts and we want a better way to track the cash flow.

I've tried to set this up but when I run the schedule, the dollar figures get changed and they grow exponentially.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Mark

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Mark Jelenski 👤 Member for 14 years 11 months

I'm trying to make four payments of 20%, 20%, 20% and 40% of the total spread out over 15 months.

As for the erroneous dollar figures, I realized it was due to how I set up the maximum units per time and I made adjustments. The issue is when I run the schedule after I split up the units to what I want them to be and where I want to see them, Primavera changes my resource usage and divides up my units again.

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Gary Whitehead 👤 Member for 17 years 2 months

What is the payments system you are trying to model? Are we talking X% on delivery, Y% on install, etc? Or $X per month for Y months? Or some other arrangement?

and please describe the procedure you've used which is erronously giving you exponential growth in $

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