Differing Costs

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Differing Costs

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by - delegate Emma [1 post] (2008 Jul 8 Tue, 15:04) Reply

I want a central resource pool of consultants, however, although they will work across multiple project at any one time their charge rate may differ. How can I show this without having to go through Tast Usage and manually changing each line with the resource info?

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RE: Differing Costs

by - trainer Dominic [10 posts] (2008 Jul 23 Wed, 12:33) Reply

Dear Emma,

The Resource Information dialogue box has 5 sub-tabs within the Costs Tab. You can set the different tabs to reflect different costs for the same resource.

If the resource is working for client 1 their charge rate might be as per cost rate tab A whereas if they work for client 2 the rate may be as per cost rate tab B - the resource is the same and will now have work in 2 different projects but their time will be charged at different rates.

Check the attached document for more detail on how to model this in MS Project.

Happy planning

Dominic

Attached files...

Variable Resource Charging.doc

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· Defining Phases and Tasks with Microsoft Project
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