Oracle Projects WBS and Construction Industry Projects

Hi, I would like to hear from anyone who can share example Work Breakdown Structures for Construction projects (e.g. high-rise commercial buildings, etc).
We currently have a process where we manipulate a Bill of Quantities in a spreadsheet and upload that in a summarized format (as a series of Trade Packages,etc) to Oracle. There is then a process to create the WBS and the Budget.
My query is around whether anyone has an alternative WBS-style for projects in a construction-oriented company. Because our WBS is based on Trades, it can get extremely long and unwiedly. Example below:
0.TP0430 Concrete Supply & Place
0.TP0431 Precast Concrete
0.TP0610 Reo Supply
0.TP0620 Reo Fixing
etc, etc.
thanks,
Mike.

Hi
When your invoice method is WORK (Time & Materials) you must run the process GDR (PRC: Generate Draft Revenue) before you run the process GDI (PRC: Generate Draft Invoice). That is because only the GDR process is calculating the billing amount and creates the RDL (Revenue Expenditure Line) for the Expenditure Items. Later on the GDI process select all un-invoiced RDLs and group them into the invoice lines.
When your invoice method is based on Events then GDI picks all un-invoiced events. It is not required that events will be included already in a draft revenue. Therefore, in that case the order you run the GDI & GDR processes does not matter.
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