Assigning markups on base cost?

Question

Hello -
I am doing a schedule and I am needing to show what the base price is and then two markups on that price. Is there a good way to do this in P6? I have thought about assigning three resources per activity and cost loading it like that, but wasn't sure if someone may have a better insight.
Thank you!

Answer 1

assigning resources to activities with different price/units is the way to go especially if resources are needed (or at least useful) for other functionalities than project activity costing. the downside would be that there is no easy way to import resource price info (e.g. from MS Excel) and/ or calculate one price/unit from base price/unit using markups.
if cost loading your activities is all you need, I would use expenses. the easiest way would be to create one activity with one (or several) expense item(s) attached to it. copy that to the desired number of activities (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C,Ctrl+V). set expense price/unit (P/U) for each activity to desired base price. Budgeted Expense Cost (BC) is calculated as Budgeted Expense Units (BU) * Expense Price/Unit (P/U)
using BU of 1 you get the base cost. using BU of less/ more than 1 you apply discounts/ markups. you can use fill down in expense window and/or globalchanges to assign custom values or recalculate values for all parameters.
you cannot directly import expense P/U from MS Excel, but you can import BU.
using a P/U of 1 you get base cost (BC = BU*P/U)
you can transfer BU to P/U and reset BU to 1, using a global change such as this:
Then     Parameter     Is     Parameter/Value     Operator     Parameter/Value
     Price / Unit     =     Budgeted Units          
And     Budgeted Units     =     1.000          
you can increase or decrease with/by x either your P/U or your BU, using a global change such as this:
Then     Parameter     Is     Parameter/Value     Operator     Parameter/Value
     Price / Unit     =     Price / Unit     *     x
best of luck,