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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

Chapter 9. The Only Constant Is Change

Changes to a project are inevitable. This chapter is all about managing changes against your contracts. Understanding the risk and what phase you are on during the change process is imperative. As multiple people are responsible for various parts of the change, you need a secure system in place where the users in all roles on your project can perform their jobs and give management a succinct understanding of their position on each change. Change can incorporate money and/or time and can either increase or decrease the contract value. The change documents in PCM are the only method that should be used to change your contract value. All contract types in PCM have the ability to be changed through the change process. The change process works hand in hand with contracts and the Cost Worksheet. In the previous chapter, you learned about the various columns on the Cost Worksheet. Many of those columns relate to various change documents processed in PCM through...