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About the Schedule Manager

The Schedule Manager helps you manage project or shell and program schedules. You can create a Project/Shell Schedule Sheet that is customized to the project's or shell’s needs. Once these sheets are created, you can then use them to create project/shell activities and tasks, assign resources to tasks, create relationships between activities, track schedule progress and variables, and calculate the schedule’s critical path.

In Primavera Unifier, you can also import project schedule records from Primavera Project Planner^® or Microsoft^® Project. These external project schedules can provide additional detail or supporting schedule information; for example, resource information, or subcontractor or vendor schedules. Imported schedules are editable within Primavera Unifier, and the data can be used in reports.

The Schedule Manager presents schedule activities as interactive Gantt charts, where you can:

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Zoom in to see tasks at the day, week, or month level

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Move activities and add dependency relationships, and automatically update the dates on the schedule

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Create critical path calculations that will flag activities that, if delayed, can cause the schedule to go beyond the planned project end date

Using Primavera Unifier’s snapshot feature, you can take a “picture” of the schedule sheet at any point in time. Using the Schedule Manager’s baseline function, you can measure progress and determine payments against original estimates; and with the tracking Gantt feature, you can compare schedule dates, such as baseline estimates against the actual schedule.

If you copy activities from one schedule to another, Primavera Unifier will immediately notify you if the change will create a schedule conflict so that you can make corrections as you work. Each change in the Schedule Manager creates a record in Primavera Unifier, which is useful for auditing purposes. An audit report of these records shows detailed information on dates, events, actions, and old values versus new values, along with the user or proxy user who performed the action.

Each project/shell can have multiple schedule sheets, and one master schedule sheet. This master sheet drives project start and end dates, tracks the project’s progress, and serves as the interface between the Schedule Manager and other Primavera Unifier modules. In particular, the master schedule updates resource assignment information in the Resource Manager, which affects timesheets and resource utilization figures; and it integrates cost items on the schedule with the Cost Manager. Primavera Unifier users can refresh resource rates on the schedule sheet and post the new rates to the Cost Manager, update the cost sheet with assignment costs, and refresh costs on the sheet to recalculate labor costs and post them to the cost sheet.

Features include the following:

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Fully configurable activity attributes form

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Activities and Gantt chart on the same schedule sheet

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Interactive Gantt chart with ability to drag activity end dates and link activities

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Tracking Gantt chart

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Filters for activities

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Baselines for schedule sheets and activity sheets

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Activity update

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Ability to create one or multiple interactive schedule sheets for the same project or shell

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Integration of Schedule Manager with the Resource Manager, enabling resource loading of schedule activities

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Multiple WBS codes for each activity to capture activity costs, such as labor, non-labor, and fixed costs. If designed in Primavera uDesigner, you can add a column to the schedule sheet to display the WBS codes associated with each activity.

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View the cost distribution information by WBS codes from a schedule sheet

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Cut and paste and copy and paste of rows in a sheet

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Update of schedule sheets from linked templates

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Critical path calculation and display

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Streamlined and enhanced integration and interaction between Primavera Unifier’s Schedule Manager and Primavera and Microsoft Project

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Activity progress tracking and percentage of work completed per assigned resource