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Remaining Total Cost Distribution

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Hello everyone,I have an activitiy (not started) which is scheduled to start in 29 March 2017 and finish in 08 May 2017. However, when i chect the remaining total cost layout, it shows the total cost only in May 2017. It does not distribute the cost ...

Mar 8, 2017

Bulk Distribution Schedule and Logistics

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I am creating a sample schedule for the Management of Bulk Deliveries. The model shall look for optimal re-assignment of all future deliveries when missed deliveries happen. The re-assignment shall consider all constraints and shall not depend on man...

Mar 8, 2017

Previous Month Status File Shows Incorrect Actuals

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HiI have a P6 Master Forecast File. I have attached the Baseline File (BL) and Last Month Status File (BL1).When I compare dates shown in Last month P6 file the dates do not tie to the actual dates for activities concerned. I am stumped as to why I s...

Mar 9, 2017

Bridging The Gap - Planning Practical Solutions

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I called it Planning Practical Solutions. I invented this name or maybe some other person already used it before, that I am not aware of. I am creating spreadsheet VBA programs as tools that will help us planners to efficiently cope up with our workl...

Mar 9, 2017

Setting up MS Project for an Engineering company

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Hi all,I am about to start a role at work where I will be required to set up a planning department using MS Project, specifically Project Online Professional.My previous planning roles have been using P6 so I'm still getting up to speed with how MS P...

Mar 9, 2017

Primavera P6 Professional Resource Lag Quick Tip

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What if you want to delay the start of one resource working on an activity? Yes, it is possible in Primavera P6 Professional to add lag on a resource. Here's how http://ow.ly/nzwu309MjEl

Mar 10, 2017

Link Appearance on Bar Chart

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Hello,I was hoping someone can help. I have had to add a substantial number activities to my programme due to client variations and I have now linked all of the activities. The trouble is my programme now looks like a spiders web due to the large num...

Mar 10, 2017

Sharing Links

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At times simple copy-paste links do not work as expected.  I avoid unexpected results by simple copy-paste links into MS Word, then insert a space after the copied link and then copy the link using Paste from Word. 

Mar 11, 2017

P6 & Critical Chain

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Hi, Does anyone know of any tools on the market that interface with Primavera P6 to support multi project critical chain implementation? Thanks

Mar 11, 2017

Primavera P6

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I've been using Primavera P6 for a few months now and I notice that the time of finish for different ativities turns out to be different even when I check them all off as complete at the same time. Is there some setting with respect to time that I'm ...

Mar 11, 2017

Benefits for Selecting Appropriate Delay Analysis Techniques

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Hi All,Can anyone provide me some benefits or better outcome for the performance of the project if an appropriate delay analysis technique is selected for certain types of building construction? I need your help on this matter for my thesis.

Mar 12, 2017

Automatic resource assigning based on activity operation

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HiWhether automatic resource assignment based on activity operation is possible in Primavera to get better result.Since we are consuming time while preparing the manufacturing shedule which will consists of many similar operations.Any suggest / help....

Mar 14, 2017

Capacity planning by task priority

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Hello all,I am rather new to project management and MS project with only a few months experience in an assisiting role. My company is using MS project 2013 and after some intro and self-learning a found myself challenged when trying to introduce a dy...

Mar 14, 2017

How to revise budget unit without changing the current duration???

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Hi, I have a question, please help me. I revised durations in a schedule at P6 regardless of remaining units and remaining duration and submitted to HOD. The original budget available and duration type already defined by previous planner is fixed dur...

Mar 15, 2017

Consumable/Permanent resource allocation ASTA PowerProject

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I am trying to allocate the use of 800 ton of 6N material to several tasks to allow me to assess the total daily demand.Consumable resources cannot be levelled is there a way around this by perhaps using permanent resources?I am struggling to ensure ...

Mar 15, 2017