Cost Profile in Primavera
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Jatinder KUMARMember for 16 years 7 months
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Hi All,
We are planning to put cost in our schedule.My project manager want that..we should put cost/budget for equipments which will be purchased during the project.Also should put the committed dates during which payment will be made to vendors. In the end we want toforecast cash flow using P6.
Can we do it using P6?
Can we assigned committed/planned cost distribution to activities??
Can we say for 6 month activities, 70% of amount will be paid after 5 month of fabrication or assigned any particular date for payment distribution??
Any thouhts??
Thanking all of you
Jatinder Kumar
We are planning to put cost in our schedule.My project manager want that..we should put cost/budget for equipments which will be purchased during the project.Also should put the committed dates during which payment will be made to vendors. In the end we want toforecast cash flow using P6.
Can we do it using P6?
Can we assigned committed/planned cost distribution to activities??
Can we say for 6 month activities, 70% of amount will be paid after 5 month of fabrication or assigned any particular date for payment distribution??
Any thouhts??
Thanking all of you
Jatinder Kumar
2 replies
Oldest first- 0Niles Luo ·hi,
Yes, P6 can deal with it.
We can use expense of activity to do it. Expense only has 3 distribution(start of activity, end of activity, uniform), so sometimes we may not express some special request just like any particular date.
The other way is use resource. In this case,we should create a resource named ’cost’ and set the price=$1. Then we allocate the ’cost’ to the activities and set the quantities (cost=price*quantity=1*quantity). At the same time ,we adjust the ’cost’ distribution use resource curve, direct revise the value in the table and/or assign a special date.
Best Regards. - 0Jatinder KUMAR ·Hi Niles,
I tried your responses to implement in Primavera,
1)I tried using expenses.I described accural type expenses at " At Finish".It distributed planned cost by baseline finish or original finish instead of only Finish.So it put the planned cost in wrong month.How can i do it only "Finish"???
2)For 2nd step..I tried but was partial successful.
Do you have any references material which I can read to complete the second way of doing?
Thanking you
Jatinder K Singla
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