Cost loading in P6

Hi All,
We are planning to put cost in our schedule.My project manager want that..we should put cost/budget for equipments which will be purchased during the project.Also should put the committed dates during which payment will be made to vendors. In the end we want toforecast cash flow using P6.
Can we do it using P6?
Can we assigned committed/planned cost distribution to activities??
Can we say for 6 month activities, 70% of amount will be paid after 5 month of fabrication or assigned any particular date for payment distribution??
Any thouhts??
Thanking all of you

You should be able to get the results you need using Resource Curves.
Another option would be to use Expenses for the activities that represent equipment purchase, and set the Accrual Type to End of Activity. That should model your requirement of committed dates when payment is made to vendors.
Hope this helps!

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Hi rashid,
Pls follow the link :
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/d5/2285347860ea35e10000009b38f83b/frameset.htm
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SR/IR A/C----Dr
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I am seeking some ideas about Resource Loading and Cost Loading schedules in P6.
My Resources are the subcontractors on the project. Each Subcontractor is the Resource for series of activities. The Resource Type is "Labor" and we plug Labor Units for each activity to run the "Activity Usage Profile". The unit price is $1 to avoid the warnings in the "Project Integrity Report" but not to track cost.
I need to load the schedule with "Labor" cost and "Material" cost. I assigned two more resources to every activity:
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Hi,
We've recently inherited a job that another company was doing, so we've had our hand slightly forced on the kit and overall topology involved, however that's all fine and we can make it work.
This is a collapsed core topology with core and access switches, split over 3 blocks (fibre connections between), one core switch/stack is in block B and the other in block C, with access switches throughout.
They require all access switches to be connected to the Core in B and the Core in C, and then obviously cross connects between the two cores.
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"Core switches shall be linked with 2x 1Gbps links bonded into a standard compliant Etherchannel"
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As the others have noted, the 3850s, to stack, are restricted to the length of the longest stack cables.
As you have noted, VSS physical units would allow the "logical" unit to be far apart.
For a "small" VSS core, the 4500-X might be an idea unit. (Other than cost, the 4500 would be a better choice for a core device.)
Something to watch for, or understand, when running VSS, Etherchannel doesn't load balance as it does on a single chassis or stack. VSS will avoid using the VSL cross link unless it must.
As many access switches, today, support basic L3 routing, you might also determine whether a L3 edge would be a suitable alternative choice. It would allow retention of the 3850s and can offer some advantages even over VSS. (Where VSS is very nice [as too the Nexus] supporting servers with Etherchannels.)

How to deal with unknown costs & load on the material

Hi,
I have asked similar question a many times but so far not have got any satisfying suggestion to this.Here I am putting it again.
This is a Intercompany scenario.
ICT PO is raised and subsequently Delivery/picking-pgi done.
Then Billing is done and goods are sent to the receiving location of another company code.
This transfer of goods involve some 2-3 types of delivery costs which are not known till the goods are received by the receiving location .
Many a times what happens is that goods are dispatched to the receiving location by clubbing the number of POs.It could be possible that user clubs some 20-30 POs and send the goods against them in one container.
The problem which the receiving location faces is how to book these additional delivery costs on the material at the time of GR as they(users) only know these costs when they receive invoices from the local vendors for the resepective expenses.
Even if they decide to change PO before they do GR it is not possible or becomes very difficult for the user to split the total additional delivery costs and distribute in all the 30 POs(assume he is receiving goods against all 30 POs in one container).
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I am sure this is a typical requirement & it must be happening in most of the industries.
Even for a single PO, how the additional cost can be distributed based on PO value.
All these additional costs should be loaded on to material while GR.
Please suggest
Thanks in advance
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hi arjman!
1) You do MIGO for all the purchase order in one document
enter the PO no and execute
*again without saving the document enter the next PO no and execute
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*now post the docu - only one material document is created.
2) * Now you post the invoice in MIRO by entering the first PO and execute.
Without saving go to the arrow symbol next to the place where you enter the PO no.
There u enter all other PO no's and execute.
Now all the PO's cleared in migo will get in the same invoice document. Still dont save the document.
3) Now the you have to map the cost which have incurred during GR. These costs are called as UNPLANNED COSTS.
These upc are entered collectively in the header data in the Detail field of the MIRO document.
You can set how you can post this unplanned costs -- whether to post in Material account or in separate GL a/c. For this you do settings in IMG>MATERIAL MANAGEMENT>LOGISTIC INVOICE VERIFICATION>INCOMING INVOICE>CONFIGURE HOW UPDC IS POSTED.
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check your pricing procedure again and do the correction.
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I am stock transferring a material from plant to plant;
I am using two modes of transport. I want to load transportation cost of both to the material at receiving plant.
how shall I configure shipment type for sucha case?
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We have a pricing procedure for stock transports.
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hi gurus,
              I have created a po.how to check whether the freight cost is loaded on material...
Accordingly the MAP has to change during goods receipt...correct
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hi pavan,
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Dear Friends,
As per I know local BGP process may implement equal-cost load-balancing to the paths that:
Have the same set of path attributes up to the MED (weight, Local Preference, Origin, MED)
Are of the same type (both learned via iBGP or eBGP)
Have the same IGP cost to reach their NEXT_HOP IP address
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R1:
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BGP table version is 4, local router ID is 40.1.1.1
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - internal,
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R       20.1.1.0 [120/1] via 10.1.1.2, 00:00:03, FastEthernet0/0
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Type escape sequence to abort.
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1 10.1.1.2 88 msec 60 msec 28 msec
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Dear Jon,
Thank you so much.
When I changed the configuration BGP is now loadbalancing. But in configuartion Max-path showing as 1 instead of 2.
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Routing Protocol is "bgp 100"
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Raju,
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ip route x.x.x.x "secondary router"
ip route y.y.y.y "WAN-interface"
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etc.
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The other choice would be to use EIGRP over the WAN, and make sure the two routers become EIGRP neighbors. Then you can use the "variance" command to achieve unequal cost load-balancing between the two routers. Let me know if you need more information about this, but i think static routes will be sufficient in your situation.
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Hi,
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2) multiple access links to a single CE or site
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The VRF routing table will have BGP entries for the routes learned from the remote PE usually with next hop addresses being the remote PE loopback IP used for PE-to-PE BGP peering.
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Thus the load balancing accross the MPLS core in a first step is decided by the IGP, which has to insert several equal cost pathes into the global routing table for the BGP next hop networks (PE loopbacks).
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