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Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14

By : Stephen Kelly
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Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14

By: Stephen Kelly

Overview of this book

Oracle's Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition is a document management, job cost, and field controls solution that keeps construction projects on schedule and on budget through complete project control. "Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14" explains the concepts behind the core modules and how to use them."Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14" makes this complex application understandable. You will understand the concepts behind the core modules and how to use them. This book starts with some basic introduction to Contract management and then covers the advantages and disadvantages of using a spreadsheet in managing information on a project. The book then covers in detail the concepts involved with how it works from a 30,000 foot view and explains the concept of how Oracle Primavera Contract Management is diametrically opposed to a spreadsheet mentality. The book also covers the aspects of how Oracle Primavera Contract Management manages the money and contractual relationships on a project.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
There Is a Better Way
Index

Processing payments


Once the template is complete, it is time to generate your first Payment Requisition either to be paid or to pay your contractors. The payment process becomes simple after the template is created.

To create a monthly Payment Requisition, open the previous month (if this is the first month, open the template) and click on Generate Document from the Select an Action drop-down list. Answer the questions on the window that is displayed and a new requisition will be created with any money in the This Period column (E) moved to the Previous Periods column (D).

After the Requisition is created, you can get Change Orders relating to this Contract that have not yet been associated with a previous Requisition by clicking on Get Approved Changes from the More Commands drop-down list:

These changes will come into this Requisition as new Pay Items with a leading "C" character. These Pay Item Numbers can be changed/edited as needed.

The Requisition is created but each Pay Item needs to...