MS Project Resource question

Hello,
In MS Project i'd like to add resources to tasks, but this results in some problems
For example i have 1 person (Daan) scheduled on a task for 5%.
But i the resourcesheet MS project has scheduled him 40 hours a week for the first task.
Why does MS project schedule him for 40 hours in stead of the 2 hours a week (5%) i filled in?
With kind regards,
Erwin

Hi,
Which version of MS Project are you using? Is it connected to Project Server or standalone? Can you detail the exact sequence to reproduce the issue? Or screenshots?
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MCP, MCTS |

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Project Resource Calendars for onshore and offshore (different working hours)

Advice please.
As with many companies we use Project 2010 with onshore and offshore resources.
Facts are as follows:
Onshore resource – 09:00 – 17:00 – 35 hour week
Offshore resource – 08:00 – 18:00 – 40 hour week
These resources are in different time zones; however that element is not an issue.
The problem seems to be with resource calendars. Resource calendars are setup as per above and assigned to appropriate resources in EPM/Project Server 2010 - however could be local for same issue.
The problem is that work is reflected correctly in hours or days but not both.
So looking at Task usage table.
For example:
Typing in hours for Onshore and Offshore resources on any task is correct.
So 7 for onshore and 9 for offshore. However when you can the work view in options so that work is entered in days, its incorrect for offshore.
Same hours for both but incorrect days. Basically the resource calendar does not seem to have an impact.
The Plan default working times can be set to either schedule but either way one or the other type of resource is out.
For instance : Offshore resource 9 hours should equate to 1day. However it equates to 1.29 days.
Which would be correct if that resource was on an onshore cal.
My assumption is as follows:
Set the Project default hours to 08:00 – 18:00 – 9 hour days, 40 hour week.
This allows offshore to work there hours as the project plan is effectively open for business.
Onshore resources should then be restricted to their resource calendar meaning that they only work 7 hours per day regardless of the plan indicating 9 hour days.
Hope that makes sense...
Any thoughts would be much appreciated…..
-CL.

Hi,
Everything you write is right, and your confusion only stems from the misunderstanding of how Project defined the "day" as a time unit.
Matter of fact, Project uses for its calculations only ONE time unit which is the MINUTE.
Of course, that implies the HOUR is a usable unit as well - an hour being 60 minutes isn't questioned by anyone.
OTOH, your post illustrateds tha a definition for day is not so obvious; Project's definition is that a day is always equal to an hour times the parameter "hours per day" in the options. So what a day is, is totally independent from any calendar, Project,
Resource or Task calendar. Within that definition the values you see are "right".
But the good news is that your other assumption,quote:
Onshore resources should then be restricted to their resource calendar meaning that they only work 7 hours per day regardless of the plan indicating 9 hour days.
That is true. Work is planned according to available working time in the appropriate calendar.
My advice is to not use the day as planning unit in any view: the hour will better allow to understand how Project is planning the tasks.
Greetings,

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I need an expert advice on setting up timelines for establishing an Oracle Apps Production environment. We are implementing Oracle HR & Payroll at an organization.
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Hi Dina,
We are implementing Oracle projects for one of our customers. The customer does not want to implement Project Resource Management module. Is it possible to assign resources to a project or create a new requirement using the Resources tab in Project screen (HTML page) without implementing the Project Resource Management module. Pls let us know.
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I have couple of Project billing questions. Hope you can help
1)A wrong customer was attached to project billing agreement, funding and base line also completed for the customer.
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Hi
On your first question you said the agreement was created for wrong customer. Since you already baselined the funding, I assume you have that customer linked to the project.
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If the project has been set with a single customer you better close the project and start a new one.
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Thanks in advance for your help,
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However, there are training programs conducted by SAP for cProjects and xRPM. You may get the details regarding these from the marketplace. Please refer https://websmp101.sap-ag.de/partnerportal/apj/home
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or
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You would need to configure both projects to have the same "HTML Root" directory in their project settings.
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we're using EPM 2010 and soon 2013 to manage our clients' projects.
we are using a centralised resource pool and people will enter Timesheet for project tracking.
one particularity is that every project is having a specific agreement on a rate for resources.
I know that we have 5 rate tables in EPM but I see this as a limitation because someone in his life will surely be assigned to more than 5 project and starting to play with talbles AND effective dates leads to management nightmares.
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http://www.eversight.co.uk/#!dataimport/cuqb
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Hi All,
I have a project with resources in different locations (Australia and the Middle East) who have different work weeks.
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RyanBaker --
This is a really excellent question, by the way, because it gets at the heart of how Microsoft Project really works. Remember that Microsoft Project is a scheduling tool. You give it the correctly scheduling information and it will figure out
the correct schedule for every task in the project.
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Sunday - Thursday. On your Standard calendar, leave the schedule set to Monday - Friday.
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will ensure that Microsoft Project schedules tasks correct when you assign resources to them.
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CUA Project Propsal Questions

Hi Experts,
I am doing research on CUA and have been asked to provide answers to the following questions. If you have been though a CUA Config/implementation recently, I would appreciate your feedback. We are a company of 10,000+ SAP Users (approx. 1500 dev/QA users we would be using for CUA)
Will Security save time by making Central Changes to user masters?
Cost savings? Other benefits?
How much time to configure each system?
How much Basis involvement?
Any other resources required?
Will users benefit from Single Sign On with CUA?
Will Basis have more work after system refreshes?
What is Virsa's role/how does it integrate with CUA?
Are there any known showstopper functionality deficits with CUA that would prevent us from using it
We will use ourSolution Manager server for this project and for eventual production usage. Any suggestions or feedback regarding this?
Hours the project would take?
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2.Security
3.Change Management
Will a Refresh schedule be changed because CUA is implemented?
Have you come across any issues with refreshes?
There are alot of questions and I will be more than happy even if only one question is answered. As always, thank you for your expertise and advise.
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> Will Security save time by making Central Changes to user masters?
Yes if you have a broad landscape - i.e. lots of clients and systems
> Cost savings? Other benefits?
User admin will be easier, CUA landscape monitoring will take additional overhead. Personally I would use say you could save 25% of time when administering users if your landscape is conducive to using CUA.
> How much time to configure each system?
Once you have done one, it should take no longer than an hour for each system (less once you get the hang of it)
> How much Basis involvement?
Not much - maybe get them to set up the RFC destinations (specific CUA ones are good, but watch out for people trying to use them for remote CATT execution etc). Basis may want to schedule the job which processes the userclone idocs in the target system. It depends how you do things in your place.
> Any other resources required?
No
> Will users benefit from Single Sign On with CUA?
I will defer to the far more knowledgable Mr Alsop on this one as I haven't a clue
> Will Basis have more work after system refreshes?
Usually limited to removing, re-adding in the CUA system. It may save them time as the users can be pushed out of the master again if required (though will need to reprocess loads of failed idocs when they get locked)
> What is Virsa's role/how does it integrate with CUA?
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> Are there any known showstopper functionality deficits with CUA that would prevent us from using it
It can be a bit flakey, though has improved over the years. It is not a magic pill which will solve all your problems. You will get frustrated with it. You have to do change reporting out of the CUA master otherwise you will only get change logs by the idoc processing batch user ID. You need to keep on top of the idocs and log monitoring. If you have a simple setup with few clients then might not be worth it.
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> Hours the project would take?
>   1.BASIS
>   2.Security
>   3.Change Management
Impossible to say without knowing all details of your landscape. Basically, you should be able to set up and test a reasonably complex CUA in less than a day.
> Will a Refresh schedule be changed because CUA is implemented?
I don't think so, though CUA should be taken into account as part of the activities
> Have you come across any issues with refreshes?
Yes, BASIS people messing up the CUA config or not doing the post refresh steps they were supposed to do.
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Hope that helps
Cheers
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Microsoft Project - Resource Pool Major Issues (continuation)

Hi All,
I have followed the the very helpful discussions in this forum under "Resource Pool Major Issues". I have read all the other related discussions as well.
I still have a question on the Resource Pool:- I am using a stand-alone version of Project Professional 2007
I create a Resource Pool; a Master Schedule and then insert several different Project Schedules into the Master.
I have gone through the motions of harmonizing the calenders and all the other good stuff recommended in the blog.
I then share the resources from the Pool.
When I open each activity to load the resources, I cannot see the shared resources except at the Project level (but not at the task level)
The only way I can pull the resources into the tasks is
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Even then, I get an irritating message pop-up saying that the calender does not exist.
Has anyone had this experience, is it the correct way to share the resources; and do you have any thoughts, suggestions on this matter?
Thanks
FK

Hard Core,
You indicate you have Project 2007 but you didn't tell us if you have SP3 installed. If not, do so.
Since you indicate that you have "read all related discussions" I will assume that you are aware of the tenuous nature of linked structures in Project and that they are prone to corruption.
Please clarify something. What exactly do you mean by "open each activity" and "I cannot see the shared resources except at the Project level"? Also, which links are you breaking?
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Confuesed about Project resources : Stock / PR / PO

Hi guys,
I use IDES to run an demo project, set collect WBS , and assign material A to 2 options:
option 1 needs A   5 pcs
option 2 needs AB   10 pcs
After running MRP, I have 2 PRs for the material A and both belongs to the same WBS Code .
PR1 , A 5pcs, special stock flag Q, WBS code: P-1
PR2, A 10pcs, special stock flag Q, WBS code: P-1
And then I convert PRs to POs,
PO1 , A 5pcs, special stock flag Q, WBS code: P-1
PO2, A 10pcs, special stock flag Q, WBS code: P-1 .
Now, I change the qty in the WBS to
option 1 needs A   10 pcs
option 2 needs B   5 pcs
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That confused me, if the special stock flag links with WBS code P-1 , why the resources can't share ? I mean the total qty of A for P-1 is 15, its enough. I test again after GR to stock , still generate PR3.
And then I found the material docs of GR shows the resources (stock) belong to WBS and NETWORK .
How to configure to share the resources under the same WBS code (special stock) ? I dont want another PR3 .Thanks all !
Wayne

Sorry, made some copy mistake .
The Question should be :
I use IDES to run an demo project, set collect WBS , and assign material A to 2 options:
avtivity 1 needs A 5 pcs
avtivity 2 needs A 10 pcs
After running MRP, I have 2 PRs for the material A and both belongs to the same WBS Code .
PR1 , A 5pcs, special stock flag Q, WBS code: P-1
PR2, A 10pcs, special stock flag Q, WBS code: P-1
And then I convert PRs to POs,
PO1 , A 5pcs, special stock flag Q, WBS code: P-1
PO2, A 10pcs, special stock flag Q, WBS code: P-1 .
Now, I change the qty in the WBS to
avtivity 1 needs A 10 pcs
avtivity 2 needs A 5 pcs
Run MRP again, I have a new PR
PR3 , A 5pcs, special stock flag Q, WBS code: P-1 .
That confused me, if the special stock flag links with WBS code P-1 , why the resources can't share ? I mean the total qty of A for P-1 is 15, its enough. I test again after GR to stock , still generate PR3.
And then I find the material docs of GR shows the resources (stock) belonging to WBS and NETWORK .
How to configure to share the resources under the same WBS code (special stock) ? I dont want another PR3 .Thanks all !

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