Customer wise employee profile

Question

Hi,
The requirement is slightly peculiar and i don't have any clue if this is achievable.
We have 3 profiles in our organization lets say:
Profile1
Profile2
Profile3
All the employees in the organization have any one of these profiles (defined in HRMS). These profile needs to be associated with a customer for bill rate definition. For example for
Customer A - profile1 will be 30$, profile2 will be 40$ and profile3 will be 50$
Customer B - profile1 will be 20$, ,profile2 will be 25$ and profile3 will be 45$
Customer C - profile1 will be 15$, ,profile2 will be 25$ and profile3 will be 35$
When I create a project for Customer A, and allocate resource, the bill rate should be automatically picked up for each employee-profile as defined against Customer A. Similarly it should happen the way we create project and allocate resource for other customers too.
How is this achievable?
Thanks.
Anand

Answer 1

Hi
You may use the Labor billing extension.
This extension is called by the process GDR when the billing method is WORK. This extension will return the bill rate based on a custom logic you may code.
We are using a similar method.
You may set up bill rate schedules names for the various customers.
You may also setup jobs, even though they are not assigned to employees.
Populate the bill rates values on the bill rate schedule, per job (equivalent to profile).
Alternatively, we created a custom table with rate schedule name and bill rate per employee profile.
On the project billing options you can assign the bill rate schedule.
Then go and develop the extension logic, so for the employee on the expenditure item it will select the profile in HR, and for the project will gather the bill rate schedule name. Then find the bill rate of the employee's profile on that schedule. This bill rate is the output returned by the extension to the GDR process to multiply by the EI quantity of labor hours.
Dina