- Choose Enterprise, Resources.
- Select the resource whose prices you want to enter.
- Click the Units & Prices tab.
- Repeat the following to assign dates with different price/units to the resource:
- Click Add.
- To change the price's effective date, double-click the Effective Date field, click
, then select a new date. - Type the maximum number of time units the resource can perform, followed by a forward slash (/) and the appropriate time duration.
For example, if the selected resource is one person, a reasonable value may be 8 hours (units) per day (duration). In this case, the Max Units/Time would be 8.00h/ d, or 8 hours of work per day. Similarly, if the selected resource is a department with 5 people, then the Max Units/Time may be 40.00h/ d. This means that 5 people can perform 40 hours of work per day, rather than 1 person performing 8 hours of work per day. - Double-click the Price/Unit field, then type the resource's monetary price. For labor resources, indicate the time unit with a forward slash (/) and the appropriate time unit abbreviation, such as $50.00/h (for 50 dollars per hour).
Right-click in the Units & Prices table and select Customize Resource Rate Columns to add or remove additional price/unit fields.
When P6 Professional is connected to a P6 Professional database, these fields display the name defined for the rate types in the Rate Types tab in the Admin Preferences dialog box.
When P6 Professional is connected to a P6 EPPM database, these fields display the name defined for the rate types from the Application Settings in P6.
Tips
- You can display the Max Units/Time data as a numeric value (8h/ d) or as a percentage of the resource's limits (100 percent). For example, if Robert is assigned a limit of eight hours/day and you assign him to a task at a maximum limit of two hours/day, you can display this information one of two ways: as 2h/ d or as 25 percent of his resource limit (since he is only assigned to this task for two of his allotted eight hours per day). Select either Show as a Percentage (50 percent) or Show as Units/Duration (4h/ d) in the Time Units tab of the User Preferences dialog box.
- To allow the selected resource to log overtime hours, click the Details tab and mark the Allow Overtime checkbox, then, in the Overtime Factor field, type the number by which the resource's standard price should be multiplied to determine the resource's overtime price
(standard price * overtime factor = overtime price).
Note
- The available time units are minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. Your system administrator sets the abbreviation for each time unit in the Admin Preferences dialog box when P6 Professional is connected to a P6 Professional database and from the P6, Application Settings when connected to a P6 EPPM database.