Hello,
I am moving to a new company that plans to use the P6 schedule different than I am used to. The company is an Mass Grading/Sitework contractor, and plans to utilize P6 heavily for resource planning (something I don't have a huge amount of experience in). The goal is to track individual Pieces of Equipment and crews (possibly even individuals one day), earthwork quantities per activity, cost, etc. I see in the resource setup that the units/time for non-labor resources seem to be setup to use hours per day, even though we will be more interested in the quantity output (cy/hour, cy/day). Does anyone have experience with a setup like this? I would like to be able to put a fixed material quantity on an activity, with a baseline plan for the personnel/equipment required to accomplish the task, then be able to crash the activity by adding additional resources if the activity gets behind. Can anyone provide guidance on methodology, and any tricks/issues they have encountered? I realize this is a broad question, but I'm more interested in your general approach, rather than the minutiae. I've been through Primavera Resource Training before, but did not have this work scenario in mind when I took the course, as I was working for a different type of company.
Any responses are appreciated.
Best Regards,
Ryan
