Hello everybody,
I have lost my oracle support access and so I quite lost when I'm in front of specific problem on PM that's why I'm here ;) expecting (or beging for) someone whose will have the kindness to answer me.
My issue is that I really have to make touchy leveling on a P6 plan, in order to optimize the result I also really need to consolidate some resource assignments on LOE, and finally I have to Level LOE activities with basic tasks dependent ones (with the same resource assigned of course).
And that's obvious that PM doesn't allowed that, but why? My resource is overallocated so it should just respect the priorities I had defined, right? Someone already met this issue?
I had been really disapointed to realize that PM doesn't consider LOE has "eligible" for leveling.
Does anyone has any idea of the parameters to select to fix this bug?
Thank in advance, enjoy your Week-end
There is no bug on P6 with regard to LOE activities not resource leveling, it is by design of how the resource leveling algorithm works. Keep the assignment of resources at the LOE activity to model cost resources when not leveling cost components and physical resources only as idle resources. In this way you will see true resource demand as well as when idle. You can even assign different resource cost when idle.
I very rarely level cost components, it is more of a limitation to developers in their planning of multiple jobs who must schedule considering financial restrictions. The idea of software allowing you to resource load LOE activities when non leveling is not a bad idea.
Each software has their tricks, just find out the tricks within P6, find out how to model idle resources within P6, maybe it is easier than what you imagine.
The following print screen is from another software but perhaps can give you an idea.