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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

Drilling down to the detail


The beauty of the Cost Worksheet is the ability to quickly review what documents have had an effect on which column on the worksheet. Look at the Cost Worksheet as a ten-thousand foot view of the money on your project. There is a lot of information that can be gleaned from this high-level review especially if you are using layouts properly. If you see some numbers that need further review, then drilling down to the detail directly from the Cost Worksheet is quite simple.

To drill down to the detail, click on the Cost Code. This will bring up a new page with tabs for the different categories. Click on the tab you wish to review and the grid shows all the documents where some or all the money has been posted to this Cost Code.

This page shows all columns affected by the selected category, with the rows representing each document and the corresponding value from that document that affects the selected Cost Code on the Cost Worksheet.

From this page you can click on...