Performance of Deliverables (KPA/KPI)

Hi,
In Oracle Projects R12, I wish to be able to track the performance of project deliverables (whether the deliverable has been shipped by the due date, or whether the deliverable has been billed by the due date).
Can anyone suggest a way to do this please?
Or perhaps if not possible using deliverables/actions, the second best way would be to do this would be to use shipping milestones in tasks. Is there a way to track just the performance (like KPA) for task milestones such as shipping dates?
Many thanks,
Matt

Hi
You may consider exceptions client extension.
Oracle allows you to develop custom KPIs / Measures.
You may code the logic so system will calculate the actual shipping date and actual invoice generation date and compare those to the deliverable due date.
You can setup threshold so system will show indicators (green, yellow, red) based on the difference between actual completion date vs. the due date.
Dina

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Hi Experts ,
We have a tabular model in which we started designing the KPI to show Actual metric value vs its Target comparison by an Status indicator to know how good the metric has performed. In the KPI calculation window of the tabular model , there are only
place holders to calculate Value , Status & Target but not for “Trend” . Even though we didn’t code anything specific for “Trend” calculation , Under the newly created KPI we see the “Trend” along with Value , Goal & Status . But the “Trend”
is behaving weirdly in the Tabular KPI, The trend indicator is being showed for every dimension attribute that is sliced with the KPI irrespective of whether it has Metric value or not. I searched many websites to understand how this “Trend” is
being calculated in a KPI , but none of them are able to throw some light on the “Trend” calculation. In this kind of scenario please suggest me a way to circumvent this issue.
How to hide the “Trend” indicator from the newly created KPI, as this I think we cannot define “Trend” calculation in tabular as in that of Multidimensional Cubes
Understand the reason why “Trend” is displayed in tabular models
Below is snapshot of our KPI when interfaced through Excel.
Can you guys please help on how to hide the “Trend” expression from tabular models. So that our users wouldn’t be confused by using unrequired metric in KPI.
Rajesh Nedunuri.

Hi NedunuriRajesh,
According to your description, since you haven't specified any expression for Trend calculation, you want to hide the Trend option. Right?
In Analysis Services Tabular, Value, Goal Status and Trend in KPI are based on the Base Value, Target Value and Status Threshold. No matter you specify a Trend Expression or not, the Trend box is always displayed in the KPI pane. And it will do the
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I recommend you
a feature request at https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer so
that we can try to modify and
expand the product features based on your needs.
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Hi everybody,
I would like to answers to one business requirements.
I create a cube that models the following event : a customer send a product from an agency to another customer who receives it in another agency.
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Is it a good model ? How to make it possible for the user to use the independent Date Dimension to perform analyzes of different KPI ?
Hi Meal,
According to your description, you want to know if is it possible for the user to use the independent Date Dimension to perform analyzes of different KPI, right?
As per my understanding, we cannot do this without relationship between dimension tables and the independent Date table. However, we can add the relationship between the added date table and the fact table Sending Date and Receiving Date column. Please refer
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175427.aspx
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Scorecards and Dashboards

Scorecards and Dashboards
According to Harvard Business Review, Balanced Scorecard concept is the most influential management idea in the past 75 years.
The performance of an organization is tracked against four key perspectives such as Finance, Customers, Internal Processes and finally Learning, Innovation and Growth. These perspectives are divided into multiple sets of Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) and grouped against these perspectives and further broken from top level to the employee level KPIs. World over companies are moving towards implementing enterprise wide organizational Balanced Scorecard.
Simplicity, personalization and empowerment are the keys while building Agent Dashboards. These goals are achieved through the application of Business Intelligence ( BI ) concepts. A contact center performance is an aggregation of every agent performance.
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Manager would like to see dashboards of aggregated scores of supervisors on weekly basis rather than daily basis. He can drill down till agents individual KPI level if he desires. A manager could also drill down against different channels and see the performance of different supervisors under different channels.
Call Center head would like to see the aggregated performance of his senior managers and across channels and will be interested to track performance against KPIs on monthly basis. He can drill down from manager level right up to the agent level and their individual KPIs to see where the actual pains are located.
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In all the performance metrics could be analyzed against multiple dimensions such as channels customers, type of services, location etc. Users down the line are empowered to analyze the data and able to get operational and strategic insights. Hundreds of variants of Dashboards and Reports could be created from a simple single user friendly interactive interface
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I was looking forward to Lightroom becoming the new gold standard and the app that I would spend days and nights in when I was not out shooting. As it is I have abandoned my trial with Lightroom after three days. I never got past the Library module (and since Ligthroom can't function without a library that sealed it's fate).
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Yours Extremely Frustrated,
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Lee,
With all due respect, I think that you're still missing my point and in doing so I believe you're making my case stronger! The disclaimer is that I don't apply any metadata to the image during importing (my camera already embedded my name in every raw file and keywording at this point doesn't make sense in my workflow).
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As for 'What's the point of importing your images into the LR database if this is the case?'. I never said I like it using a database but I appreciate the pros and cons of this approach. I would use Bridge instead but it has a different showstopper: the generated previews are too low quality to judge image sharpness (see BreezeBrowser in High Quality mode for what a preview should look like, I posted about this in the Bridge forum recently). The low quality previews are THE reason I am looking at Lightroom but of course it also promises to be 'so much more' than Bridge.
Of all the issues that I consider to be showstoppers in the library module of Lightroom 1.0 this is the least important and I will agree to disagree with you. If 1.1 fixes the stability issues, improves performance and delivers a usable interface for managing files and folders that keeps them consistent with the file system I'll be happy to give Lightroom another shot even if it means *.xmp files being generated for every image as it's imported.
Cezary

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Hi,
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Hi,
I am an IT manager, managing two solutions: "SCM" & "WMS (Warehouse Management System)", and there is a team for each solution.
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Just a comment that while your Subject says "DBA", the job responsibilities include many other things which are outside the definition of a DBA role, eg Application support, creating "reports" for "all" levels, troubleshooting "business" issues, etc
So what does "all" levels mean? Does that mean reports from the Application? or just the technical aspects of database administration like I/O, memory, latches etc. What does troubleshooting "business" issues mean? Does that mean identifying why the accounting books don't balance?
I understand that while the DBA role can be clearly defined in theory (Oracle Database Administrator's Guide - Task of a DBA), in practice many organizations, especially the smaller ones, are closer to what you have described. In such cases, the approach I'm familiar with has been to define as much as practicable the primary and secondary responsibilities of each position, and define the KPIs for the primary and make rather vague statements for the secondary role(s).
Thank you that was valuable,
So what does "all" levels mean?Answer: Application Reports go to all level of management, from department managers to senior mgmt and directors.
It includes,
- Productivity measurements.
- Identifying some of business requirements.
- Creating/Building estimates for any CR.
- Should be involved with warehouse expansions plans.
- Reporting critical operations & inventory activities.
- Building interactive reports.
- Cost allocation, ... etc.
Then the normal DBA comes which includes I/O, memory, DB performance, application & DB users ... etc.
You are right: I can take their primary responsibilities to define their KPIs and leave secondary responsibilities on vague statements for the secondary role(s), so, I can evaluate them according to the primary part and leave the secondary part for them to compete on it.
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