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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

What happens on the Cost Worksheet?


One of the features of the Change Management module is that the costs are automatically managed based on the workflow designed for the project. Since each category (Budget and Commitment) has four phases, there is the potential for having up to four individual documents under each phase with separate cost distribution information. The potential for doubling or tripling the monetary information on the Cost Worksheet would be high if not using the Change Management module. Using this module forces a workflow through the phases of the change. As a result, as each phase is added to the category, the previous phase is automatically closed and the money removed from the Cost Worksheet. There is no way to have two active documents populating the Cost Worksheet from one contract. The Budget category only allows a change to be associated with one Budget contract. The Commitment category allows unlimited commitment contracts to be associated with a change. Each...