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Multiple Overtime Factors

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Mon, 2016-08-08 14:33
Harry Angell
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Hi,

We are looking at cost loading our schedules, but we have hit a snag in that our operatives are paid an overtime factor of x1.5 on Saturday mornings, and a factor of 2.0 on Saturday Afternoon->Sunday .

Is there a way of specifying different rates for Weekday/Saturday Mornings/Saturday afternoons - Sunday?

 

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Mon, 2016-08-08 18:28
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Vladimir Liberzon
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If this shall be done for each resource then it takes a lot of time in projects with multiple resources.

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Mon, 2016-08-08 16:53
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David Kelly
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I have just counted 10 keystrokes per resource per price change.

SO,

one resource, changing price every Saturday and every Sunday is 1000 keystrokes per year.  This is a terrible job that has "Graduate Trainee" written all over it, but will only take half an hour to an hour. 

You will spend more time arguing about if a job SHOULD be done at the week-end than setting P6 up to charge extra to do it then.

 

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Mon, 2016-08-08 15:52
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Harry Angell
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The other issue I have is that not only is the overtime factor dependant on what day it is, normal pay is different depending on what day it is. Can I safely assume that P6 is not suitable for this pay setup?

How do large companies who run P6 cope with these missing features?

 

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Mon, 2016-08-08 15:19
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Harry Angell
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Ouch I had a feeling there was no easy way, seems like a feature that would prove quite popular judging by the number of posts I have seen with people all proposing different ways around this. Maybe I'll have to convince management that this is too much effort to justify going ahead with. 

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Mon, 2016-08-08 15:16
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David Kelly
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There is no quick way to do this. You need to add a record to the Units and prices tab in the Resource Dictionary for each resource for every price change.  If you have an SDK enabled database, one of the Primavera Spreadsheets, Dictionaryx.xls will update directly from a spreadsheet and save you hours....

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