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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

Following a change


We can now Follow along a typical change and use the Change Management module and process defined previously. To fully utilize the change process in PCM we need to understand the Issues module.

Issues

The Issues module is used for many different reasons in PCM; one of them is managing changes. The Issues module is a very simple and yet underutilized module in PCM. The name can be misleading and many times the name of the Issues module is changed to "File Index" as it can replace the company's F:\ drive that stores all project related documents. This method is very prevalent in organizations but can be very unwieldy and potentially insecure.. This module acts like an electronic file cabinet. The following screenshot shows an example of an Issues register:

It is the only module in PCM where you can link records (documents) from every other module in PCM. It is then a collection or folder of all documents related to a topic in one place.

Seasoned managers in PCM will live in...