Afternoon, More and more contractors programmes submitted are expenses loaded as opposed to costs loaded. Could someone give me a summary of pros and cons for doing so from both a contractor and an employer perspective? Thanks a lot.
Dear Planners...a simple question. A site established Piping Fab shop has to do 300,000 ID in 12 months with peak of 40,000 ID per month. What amount of piping mateterial (in Inch Dia) should be available in peak month:30% above target40% above targe...
What i am needing to know how to do is create a report with the P6 report wizard that compares the early cost/early start versus late costs/Late finish directly from the P6 reports section. Can this be done? Im sorry, i am not the best person at exp...
First of all,thank you Vladimir, Rafael for your help with my material ref-book problem, I managed to create ref-books and corporate ref-books for activities, material and resource assignments - very useful. Unfortunately today I got stuck on somethi...
Hi there; my 1st ever post. I have a customer managing large project with multiple workstreams (or sub-projects) each with it's own manager. I'd normally recommend using Primavera P6 for this but the client wanted to use MS Project so that the manage...
I'm reviewing an MSP programme for a colleague. He is concerned that he can't see a critical path running through the project schedule. The "critical" filter shows the back end of the path, but not any activities upstream of a critical SS + lag relat...
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Dear all,possibility to use multiple links between the same 2 tasks is quoted as one of the Spider’s advantage. However the only application of this I could think of is to have SS and FF links from Activity 1 to Activity 2. In case Activity 2 is a ha...
What type of files can you import into P6 V 8.2 eg. Microsoft Project etc?
Hi thereThis is about baselines.If I don't assign any baseline and I use the current project as such, I have noticed that for the already finished and already started activities the program keeps the original baseline dates one day assigned to those....
Dear Planners,Can any one direct me to a good book with an example for Primavera enterprise?Regards,Moutaz
Dear All P6 Experts, I have my current schedule and I already assigned Basline to it. I try to export my current schedule as XER file and send it by e-mail but the person who import it to his computer he can't see my assigned baseline? Is there metho...
Hi everyone, I'm using P3 and have a 4500 activities schedule. The problem I'm facing is the following: The total float of the last activitiy of the project is -10 days, and I have within the program activities with -15 days of total float. I thought...
While putting a programme together, I often use "Effort & Modelling". This obviously enables me (or rather the programme) to calculate durations. So I model, get a duration and then save eveything as a baseline.However the quantities change, and so t...
is there a way to import a XER file from Primavera ver 8.2 toversion 6.2? OR is there a way to import mpp file primavera Regards/Rajesh
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Hi there Made a user defined field via "User Field Manager" called Frequency, all I want to type in there is "Monthly" or "2 yearly" or "Weekly" etc. I've added it to my chart, I type in the activity description as usual, I type in the "Frequency" co...