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Oracle® Fusion Applications Project Management Implementation Guide
11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0)
Part Number E20384-01
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25 Project Foundation Configuration: Define Nonlabor Costing Schedules and Rules

This chapter contains the following:

Nonlabor Cost Rates: How They Are Determined

Turning Equipment into Nonlabor Resources: Example

FAQs for Define Nonlabor Costing Schedules and Rules

Nonlabor Cost Rates: How They Are Determined

Oracle Fusion Projects uses cost rates to calculate the raw cost for transactions. For example, for cost transactions, the application determines a cost rate for each transaction and calculates the raw cost during transaction costing, unless you import the raw cost for transactions.

How Nonlabor Cost Rates Are Determined

Oracle Fusion Projects applies the following rules to determine the cost rate for each transaction.

  1. The application uses an organization costing rule to determine the nonlabor cost rate schedule, using the following logic. At each level, the application searches for a rule with a date range that includes the transaction date.

    1. Organization costing rule for the expenditure organization.

      The application searches for an active costing rule assigned to the organization of the transaction on the date of the transaction.

    2. Organization costing rule for the parent expenditure organization.

      If an organization costing rule for the expenditure organization is not found, the application searches for a rule assigned to the parent organization of the expenditure organization, and continues up the project expenditure organization hierarchy until a rule is found.

      You specify the project expenditure organization hierarchy for the business unit during implementation. If an organization has multiple parent organizations, and a rule is assigned to more than one parent, the application uses the rule assigned to the lowest level parent organization.

    3. Organization costing rule for the business unit.

      If no costing rule is found for the expenditure organization and parent organization, the application uses the costing rule assigned to the business unit for the transaction.

  2. The application uses the nonlabor rate schedule and then applies the cost rate that is associated with the unique combination of expenditure type, nonlabor resource, and nonlabor resource organization.

  3. If a cost rate does not exist for the combination of expenditure type, nonlabor resource, and nonlabor resource organization, then the application uses the cost rate for the expenditure type and nonlabor resource combination that is applicable to all nonlabor resource organizations to which the nonlabor resource belongs.

    Note

    This rule applies to cost transactions only. For billing and planning transactions, you can either not use a nonlabor resource organization, or map the nonlabor resource organization to the organization that maintains the rate schedule.

  4. If a cost rate does not exist for the combination of expenditure type and nonlabor resource, then the application uses then the applications uses the cost rate defined for the expenditure type.

If a rate is not found at any of these levels, then an error is generated for the transaction.

Turning Equipment into Nonlabor Resources: Example

This example illustrates setting up assets as nonlabor resources.

Scenario

You are asked to set up nonlabor resources and assign them to the appropriate organizations for the InFusion Corporation.

Defining Nonlabor Resources

InFusion Corporation wants to capture costs for computer equipment, vehicles, survey equipment, and other assets.

In this example, assume that expenditure types and organizations are already set up, which are prerequisites of defining nonlabor resources.

The Other Assets expenditure type is assigned to all divisions. This nonlabor resource captures miscellaneous items.

Analysis

To define a nonlabor resource, you specify a name and description of each asset, such as a piece of equipment or pool of assets, and a date range during which the resource can be used.

For each nonlabor resource, you must choose an expenditure type with the Usage expenditure type class. Every usage item that you charge to a project must specify the nonlabor resource utilized and the nonlabor resource organization that owns the resource. You can select organizations that are classified as project and task owning organizations or project expenditure organizations.

A nonlabor resource may be a piece of equipment with capacity that is consumed, such as a training room, or equipment with physical output that is consumed, such as a copier. Enable the Equipment resource class to plan and report nonlabor resources as equipment with capacity that is consumed.

Nonlabor Resource Details

The following table shows the nonlabor resources for InFusion Corporation.


Resource Name

Description

Expenditure Type

Equipment Resource Class

From Date

Organizations

Laptop

Laptop on the Headquarters Network

Computer Services

Not enabled

January 1, 2011

Data Systems

Finance

Information Services

Risk Analysis

HQ SPARC T3-1 Server

Headquarters Sparc Enterprise Server

Computer Services

Not enabled

January 1, 2011

Information Services

Oracle Exadata Storage Server

Data Systems Oracle Storage Server

Computer Services

Not enabled

January 1, 2011

Data Systems

Oracle Solaris Studio

Engineering and Services Oracle Development Platform

Computer Services

Not enabled

January 1, 2011

InFusion Engineering

InFusion Services

Survey

Standard Surveying Equipment

Field Equipment

Enabled

May 1, 2011

InFusion Engineering

Van

Heavy Duty Van

Vehicle

Not enabled

January 1, 2011

InFusion Construction

West

Midwest

East

South

International

Minivan

Site Visit Minivan

Vehicle

Not enabled

August 1, 2011

InFusion Construction

West

Midwest

East

South

International

Pickup Truck

Heavy Duty Pickup Truck

Vehicle

Not enabled

January 1, 2011

West

Midwest

East

Other Asset

Other Asset

Other Assets

Not enabled

January 1, 2011

Administration

InFusion Construction

InFusion Engineering

InFusion Services

FAQs for Define Nonlabor Costing Schedules and Rules

What's a nonlabor resource?

An asset or a pool of assets. For example, a nonlabor resource may be a piece of equipment with capacity that is consumed, such as a training room, or equipment with physical output that is consumed, such as a copier.

Note

What's a nonlabor resource organization?

The organization to which a nonlabor resource is assigned. For example, a nonlabor resource named Survey may represent a piece of survey equipment that is assigned to the Engineering organization, and a nonlabor resource named PC may represent a pool of personal computers that are assigned to the Information Services, Finance, and Engineering organizations.

Note