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Setting up a Generic Cost Manager

You can define a Generic Cost Manager to capture cost-related activities for a Generic Shell. These include costs like:

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Rent

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Lease payments

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Landscape care

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Building maintenance and repair

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Remodel of building interiors

With this manager, you can capture and view cost transaction information based on a time scale, such as quarterly or yearly. Each shell can have one Generic Cost Manager.

The Generic Cost Manager uses specific Generic Cost business processes and business processes with the type Line Items with Multiple Codes as data sources.

Maintenance Management and the Generic Cost Manager

Maintenance Management material costs can be rolled up to the Generic Cost Sheet, using datasources that are provided specifically to facilitate this cost roll up. These datasources are:

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Actual Material Cost (Work Order)

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Planned Material Cost (Work Order)

See the Maintenance Management User Guide for details.

Before you begin. The Generic Cost Manager and the Generic Cost Manager Attribute form must first be designed in Primavera uDesigner.

Step 1: Set the permissions for importing the Generic Cost Manager

Step 2: Import the Generic Cost Manager

Step 3: Import the Generic Cost Manager Attribute form

Step 4: Set template permissions.

Step 5: Create the Generic Cost Sheet template at the company level.

Step 6: Create a Generic Cost Sheet.

Step 7: Work with Generic Cost BPs.

Step 8: Set up the Commitment Summary Template.

Note: The name of the Generic Cost Manager you will work with is determined by the name given to it in Primavera uDesigner. For documentation purposes, the manager is referred to as the Generic Cost Manager.

Setting Generic Cost Manager Permissions

Maintenance Management and the Generic Cost Manager

Import the Generic Cost Manager

Import the Generic Cost Manager Attribute form

Creating a Generic Manager Generic Cost Sheet Template

Setting Generic Cost Sheet Template Permissions

Creating a Generic Cost Sheet

Working with Generic Cost Business Processes

Setting up the Commitment Summary Template

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