Hello All,
I want to apply a Fixed Price Cost to my activities. For example
Foundation
Original Duration = 10 days
Fixed Price Cost for this activity = $10000
QUESTION:
1) How do apply the fixed price cost to this activity?
2) When i progress the activity in future, say 20% completed, duration remaining = 8 days, the actual cost will automatically change to $2000 and the remaining cost will change to $8000
3) The problem is, I know there are ways to change the cost unit to say $1000/day so it will calculate the actual cost and remaining cost when i progress the activity but i want a fixed price cost for every different activity. For example if i set the cost unit to $1000/d then i have a different activity with 20d duration with the exactly same cost $10000, and the next activity is 30d duration with the exact same cost, this is why i cannot use the cost/unit formula.
4) From all the points above, is there a way for P6 to assign a fixed cost to activities and update the actual costs automatically when i assign progress in the future, either by duration remaining / physical % complete / duration % complete?
Thank you so much for your help, i have been struggleling to produce this assignment.
Many thanks
Mike
if it was nto set up like that initially it will not work unless you add the resource again.
the rules are in efect at the time that the resource was added
Hi Zoltan,
Thank you for the reply and i really appreciate this.
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1. if you want a fixed cost then make sure that calculate costs from units is NOT CHECKED. Then just add the resource and put in the fixed costs. You can also export the budgedt costs to excel and import the fixed costs. Yoy MUST have calculate costs from units NOT CHECKED.
if you want to change all of these you can go to tools global change
where resource name is not equal to (leave blank)
then calculate cost from units =no
then on the right select Apply changes
then on the bottom comitt changes
2. if you have units you can select calculate cost from units
for each type of resource you can set a Price/unit
lets say you set the price per a resource to $100 now if you have 10 units thats woul be $100 * 10= $1,000
3. is not a question
4. Go to Projects make sure you project is open click on the Calculations tab on the right under Resource Assignments
make aure that When updating Actual Units or Costs that
Subtract Actual from At Completion is checked and that
Recalculate Actual Unist and Costs when duration % complete changes is checked
also make sure that Link Actual and Actual This Period Units and Cost is checked.