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Quantity details in Primavera

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Anand DominicMember for 20 years 6 months
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Iam a planner responsible for E&I works. As a sample a portion of my plan has the following activites

Cable Tray Support Fabrication
Cable Tray Support Installation
Tray Installation

Till i date i have only entered manhours (Resource) required for each of these activites in Primavera Schedule (P3).

The actual & contractual quantities for these activities (tons & Meters) was monitored in a Spreadsheet.

Is there a method of monitoring these quantities (different unit of measurements tons, meters, Nos., cum etc) withing the P3 schedule itself.

Happy Planning..
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    A D ·
    #1
    Yup dominic,

    In the RESOURCE tab, you have BUDGETED QUANTITY (BQ) to put in the planned quantities, and in ACTUAL TO DATE, you can have actual quantities till date.

    You can use Global change to have this quantified resources for each activity.

    Hope I am clear!!

    Cheers,

    Raviraj
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    Anand Dominic ·
    #2
    Dear Sir,

    Does it mean, i have a

    1. Resource - "Manhour" were i enter Budgeted qty and completed to date
    2. Resource - "Tray" were i enter Tray Qty in Mtrs
    3. Resource - "Tray Support" were i enter Qty in Tons

    and assign the resource related to each activity.

    I will try.

    Thanks
    Anand Dominic
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    A D ·
    #3
    Yes Anand,

    Thats correct.
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    Dattatreya Padharthi ·
    #4
    Hi Anand,

    You can use multiple resources in P3, I normally prefer using resources (Manhours) in resources, while for quantities I use Custom data item. This gives flexibility as far as global changes & reports are concerned.

    Ravi,
    Any limitations/drawbacks on this set up.

    Regards

    Dattatreya
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    A D ·
    #5
    Thats correct actually,

    But i have never done that, may be bcoz i m used to BQ.

    Global changes can be used in either case, but the only thing is you can have limited eight custom data items for each activity.

    Cheers,

    Ravi
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    Brennan Westworth ·
    #6
    I like to keep my resource units as manhours whenever possible, otherwise it is difficult to display manhour data in columns and summarisation of % complete gets screwed up unless you use cost.
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