Material Resource - Applying an additional fixed cost

You are Welcome Sir Rafael.

With Spider Project we can apply as many cost codes we want either at fixed cost or at unit cost.  I expect you should be able to create similar models.  Within P6 having the option to apply different rates to the same cost code helps.

Rafael,

P6 is below average at this. Whether a resource’s costs are fixed or per unit time, is a function of the activity NOT the resource assignment. A classic example from my oil and gas world is drilling. The drilling rig is hired by the day, but the drill string is a material whose costs are fixed.
I recommend my clients to use the P6 facility “Expenses” to add material costs. Expenses are always fixed, even on activities where all the resource costs are per unit time.

Raymund thank you very much.

Sir Rafael,

For Clarity, 5 Rate Types are available and any of the Types can be assigned in Each Resources Assigned.

A Resource can be assigned 5 Times with different assigned Rate Types for each.

Hope this is clear for you.

Jesse,

I suggests to create UDF under Resource Assignment which contains the 6% x Budgeted units instead of the Price / Unit.

You can replace the Budgeted units with the UDF using the Global Change.

Prior to that create another UDF to store the original Budgeted Units so that you can easily revert back if needed.

Hope this will help.

I believe that Raf is correct you can have up to 5 rate types per resource 

glad I could help you Jesse

You are not finished yet, Jesse!

In addition to what you have done, you need to ensure that the "Calculate costs from units" flag is removed from each material resource assignment, and from the resource dictionary, or when you apply progress the change you have made will be undone.

To remove the flag at the resource assignment, another global change will do….

There are 5 Rate Type you can use for Each Resource.

NICE

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Jesse,

There are 5 Rate Type you can use for Each Resource. One of them can be used as the original rate x 6% then assign to affected Resources.

Use the Excel SDK to import the new Rate Type.

Hope this will help.

Vlad

He needs to add 6% to all of his material costs my advice is to run a global chnage to do this for him. 

Zoltan,

I don't understand your advice.

I understood that Jesse wants to change material unit costs (price / unit).

Activity cost includes the costs of required materials and depends on activity material consumption.

You suggest to change the costs of material assignments. But what happens if material consumption will become higher or lower for some reasons. Will material assignment cost be adjusted proportionally?

go to tools global change

on the right select new

up top under select subject area choose

Activity Resource Assignments

the the specification would be

where

resource type equals material

then

budgeted costs = budgeted costs  *   .06

then on the upper right select change

then on the bottom right select Comitt Changes

done

Putting to one side an important argument for using Expenses for materials, rather than Resources, I am not quite clear what you want. Is it:

For all materials on activities that have not started, add 6% to the cost?