Resourcing issue in P5
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Yusuke KamuiMember for 18 years 5 months
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Hi, we are suing P5 and I have a big issue:
Please PLEASE help me out… I’m now going to put/assigning resources/roles to my project. The overall project has an agreed/contracted total amount of WORK of 236,000 hours having a milestone finished date for every main tasks.
- The project is a construction type having a FIFO (fly-in / fly-out) rosters for all the resources.
- Each resource have different FIFO rosters having a 3-weeks ON and 1-week OFF. So it means each resources has its own work calendar.
- Current total resources to be assigned are 50 electricians and 10 boilermakers.
- A task will have an assigned number of electricians or boilermaker working or only an electrician or only a boilermaker. For example a task has an assignment of 3 electricians and 1 boilermaker, but these 3 electrician and 1 boilermaker can be anybody (from the pool of 50 electricians and 10 boilermaker). The reason for this is that the supervisor can call an electrician or boilermaker assigned originally to Task A then transfer him to help on Task B. How complicated!!
- At the end of the day each electrician or boilermaker will enter into their timesheet (paper only) and put in the actual hours they worked and in what particular area or task was that.
1. Problem is how to assign a resource or a role in those specific tasks???
2. Should it be assigned by role or assigned by specific names of electricians/boilermakers! How can it be done?
3. How to review the resources? If we want to forecast how many more electricians or boilermakers to hire in the next few months to meet the milestone deadline, how can it be done?
So please help me out. Thanks.
Please PLEASE help me out… I’m now going to put/assigning resources/roles to my project. The overall project has an agreed/contracted total amount of WORK of 236,000 hours having a milestone finished date for every main tasks.
- The project is a construction type having a FIFO (fly-in / fly-out) rosters for all the resources.
- Each resource have different FIFO rosters having a 3-weeks ON and 1-week OFF. So it means each resources has its own work calendar.
- Current total resources to be assigned are 50 electricians and 10 boilermakers.
- A task will have an assigned number of electricians or boilermaker working or only an electrician or only a boilermaker. For example a task has an assignment of 3 electricians and 1 boilermaker, but these 3 electrician and 1 boilermaker can be anybody (from the pool of 50 electricians and 10 boilermaker). The reason for this is that the supervisor can call an electrician or boilermaker assigned originally to Task A then transfer him to help on Task B. How complicated!!
- At the end of the day each electrician or boilermaker will enter into their timesheet (paper only) and put in the actual hours they worked and in what particular area or task was that.
1. Problem is how to assign a resource or a role in those specific tasks???
2. Should it be assigned by role or assigned by specific names of electricians/boilermakers! How can it be done?
3. How to review the resources? If we want to forecast how many more electricians or boilermakers to hire in the next few months to meet the milestone deadline, how can it be done?
So please help me out. Thanks.
4 replies
Oldest first- 0Alex Wong ·Hi
Suggestion is
Use - Individual Named resource with two role Electricians and Boilermaer
Assign all your activities according to the contract milestone with breakdown to details
Assign individual resource with its own calendar
Assign the resource to the role in a 4 weeks lookahead using myPrimavera
Update the timesheet individually, either use a clerk or ask the individual doing it in Primavera Timesheet.
Good Luck
Alex
- 0Vladimir Liberzon ·Alex,
maybe I don’t know P5 well enough but I did not understand your proposal.
You suggested to assign individual resource. Please clarify - assign where?
I don’t understand what do you mean by assigning the resource to the role. Shall role be assigned?
I hope that you remember that this task can be easily solved in Spider Project and I am interested to learn how to do this in P5/P6 if it is possible. - 0Yusuke Kamui ·Thanks Alex for the reply, just need some further clarificaiton:
1. I need to specifically assign each specific person in every task?? But the problem is in reality these person rotate so a generic role (Electrician or Boilermaker) is actually doing the said task. At the end of the day a role of electrician or boilermaker actualy did that task.
2. Where to locate "myPrimavera"?
- 0Alex Wong ·1. You don’t assign named resource, you assign the activity with Electrician or Boilermarker
2. Then the supervisor assign the availiable named resource - of course your capacity line (availiability) should within the rostered staff.
3. myPrimavera - is the web platform which is very useful in this situation, because the supervisor can find the availiable resource and assigning them to the activities. In addition, the supervisor can also see whether the resource is on/off with their FIFO schedule
Good Luck
Alex
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