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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

It starts with the Cost Worksheet


In PCM, the Cost Worksheet is the common element for all the monetary modules. The Cost Worksheet is a spreadsheet-like module with rows and columns. The following screenshot shows a small part of a typical Cost Worksheet register:

The columns are set by PCM but the rows are determined by the organization. The rows are the Cost Codes . This is your cost breakdown structure. This is the lowest level of detail with which money will be tracked in PCM. It can also be called Cost Accounts . All money entered into the documents in any of the monetary modules in PCM will be allocated to a Cost Code on the Cost Worksheet. Even if you do not specifically allocate to a Cost Code, the system will allocate to a system generated Cost Code called NOT COSTED. The NOT COSTED Cost Code is important so no money slips through the cracks. If you forget to assign money to your Cost Codes on the project it will assign the money to this code. When reviewing the Cost Worksheet...