21 Oracle Project Management

Oracle Project Management provides project managers the visibility and control they need to deliver their projects successfully, improve profitability, and operate more efficiently. Oracle Project Management empowers project managers to plan the work, assign resources, forecast to completion, and communicate to stakeholders, while streamlining the collaborative execution of project work.

This chapter describes the following test flows in Oracle Project Management:

  • Project Template Creation

Prerequisites

None.

Profile Options

Not applicable.

Predefined Data

Not applicable.

Setup Data

Not applicable.

21.1 Project Template Creation

The project template creation covers the creation of a planning resource list with resource formats and planning resources. A project template is created and structures are enabled, and team members and customer details are added to the template. Work plan setups are performed by assigning the planning resource list. Work breakdown structure is created in the project template and resources are assigned to the tasks.

Prerequisites

Rate schedule RC_Cost1 with resource class having all four resource classes as per the table below.

Table 21-1 Prerequisites for Project Template Creation Flow

Resource class Rate

People

10

Equipment

20

Material items

1

Financial Element

1


Profile Options

Not applicable.

Predefined Data

Not applicable.

Setup Data

Table 21-2 Setup Data for Project Template Creation Flow

Page Name Field Name Field Value Comments

Planning Resource List

Job Group

Vision Corporation

Human Resource Job Group should be created

 

Expenditure Type

Airfare

Expenditure type Air Fare with UOM = Currency, Rate Required = No, Expenditure Type Class = Expense Reports, Supplier Invoices

 

Organization

Services - East

Organization type for the Organization should be Department and the classifications to be attached are Project Expenditure or Event Organization and Project Task Owning Organization

Project Template

Project Type

Cost Plus

Project Type should have below details

Name - Cost Plus

Operating Unit - Vision Services

Class - Contract

Service Type- Consulting

Work Type- Commercial Customer-billable

Project Template

Organization

Vision Services

Organization type for the Organization should be Division and the classifications to be attached are Operating Unit and Project Task Owning Organization

Project Template or Key Members

Employee

Marlin, Ms. Amy

Employee in Human Resources and with active assignment

 

Role

Project Manager

Project Manager role with role based security enabled and corresponding project manager functions menu attached

Project Template or Customer and contacts

Customer Name

Hilman and Associates

Customer should be created in Accounts Receivables module

Task Type

Name

DSN-PE-EFFORT, DSN-PE-COST