Re: Equipment rental
- From: "Trevor Rabey" <trabey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:03:37 +0900
You say that you don't want the machine to "produce" or "consume" "work".
Why not?
There is no real difference between a biological resource and a
non-biological one.
In your project, they both cost by the hour or the day and depend on the
Task Duration.
Ok, the total Hours and the rolled up Hours will be a mix of people hours
and machine hours, but so what?
If you want your totals and reports for work to exclude the machine hours,
you can always filter out the non-biological resources.
On the flip side, sometimes it is convenient to class a sub-contractor who
supplies labour and materials in one fixed price contract as a Material type
Resource rather than a Work Type, to exclude their Work Hours from totals
and reports.
But again, an alternative would be to make him a Work type resource at
$0/hour, put the cost into the fixed cost for the task, then filter him out
for the reports and totals for the direct hours of the bio-resources.
Sometimes alternatives are equivalent and other times one is right and some
are just wrong.
"Ruy Mendonca" <RuyMendonca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:30715EDE-5EEE-4691-86D2-FBA6113B2821@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi, Jim:
Thanks for your tip. But I can't make it a "material", because the
equipment
has a variable use cost, lets say US$50.00 a day, for instance.
And as I said befor, it´s not a labour cost either, since it will not
produce work...
I've bypassed this in tree steps: first placing only the "normal"
resources
(labour and/or material) and leting the Project calculate the duration of
the
activitie. After that, I place the equipment as a labour cost, and
finally, I
have to correct the duration...
I think it must have a easier way to do that...
Thanks for any help.
--
Ruy Mendonca
Sao Paulo - Brazil
"Jim Aksel" escreveu:
Make it of type "material" You can accure it at the start, finish, or
prorated. You can also make it a cost/use independent of duration
"Ruy Mendonca" wrote:
How can I deal with the costs of equipment that will be used in several
tasks
with different durations ?
It is not "labor cost" (it will not produce work), but will be charged
on a
per-day basis.
--
Ruy Mendonca
Sao Paulo - Brazil
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