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staff assignment and indirect costs in p6?

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Sidar CobanMember for 18 years 5 months
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hi guys, i am new in plannning i prepared a schedule and i am in need of some help...first of it about staff assignment such as engineer,formen and so on...i dont want to assign foremen or enginneeer activity by activity for instance is there a way to assign a formen or engineer directly to a WBS or normaly how staff personel is have to be assigned at p6? secondly, i dont know how will i calculate indirect costs in primavera...for instance my company is a foreign company in romania so for every labour we have indirect costs such as plane tickets,taxes,insurances nad of course our sites have indirect costs such as drinking water costs...and i dont know if i can add this kind of costs or not. if i can,how?
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    K D ·
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    Hi.
    I think you can use Expense for indirectly cost like plane tickets...
    If you wanna assign resource to WBS, create a WBS-summary activity and assign resource to it.
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    Alex Wong ·
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    Hi PPs

    From what I read, what you try to do is run an accounting system in a project management software

    I suggest you do not do that

    Good Luck

    Alex
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    Dieter Wambach ·
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    Sidar
    In addition to what Alex wrote. P6 is a project management software, i.e. supports the pm to manage, to control his/her project. Which action to be taken, if water consumption exceeded the budget by 20 Cent? None!
    Plan and collect those costs in detail which influence project’s success. All others - drinking water, ... - I would plan as a lump sum - "expense" - and attach it to a level-of-effort activity. If you can connect a certain trip with an activity - e.g. approval and the required travel of an approval engineer or the kick-off meeting and other project related meetings you can assign expenses.
    Pea/cent counting is a different job.
    Regards
    Dieter
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    Sidar Coban ·
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    thanks for your helps...i didnt know what the level of activity is...but now i think i understood...but can i ask you what is the difference between level of effort and wbs summary?
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    K D ·
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    Hi.
    Using LOE activity you can expand the scope to many WBS.
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    Dieter Wambach ·
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    Sidar
    LoE’s duration depends on other activities based on Start-Start and Finish-Finish relations independent from other structures, WBS summary is related to a WBS and has no relationships.
    Have a look into P6-Help: Activity Details --> Activity Type.
    Regards
    Dieter
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