Why should you make life difficult. A welder is a welder and an electrician is an electrician. Do not bother to allocate each person to a specific activity. This may be the a exception for specialized trade. Make resources groups in the Enterprise tab of P6 and allocate the number of resources, Say 20 welder, 25 electricians . This allows you to level resources as resource group for welders ,electricians etc. Recourse leveling on the names Achmed, John or Claus is useless.
Human Resources and time keeping systems are better for tracking man hours.
I am facing a similar problem, my schedule is about 9000 lines and i have about 500 resources. What i have done is I have devided my schedule into 6 sections, The hard work is on section 1 where i have to manually allocate all of these resources however from section 2 to section 6 i have just copied and pasted as it is a repitation. This means that the resources i used on section 1 will be exactly the same for section 2 to section 6, which makes sense. The problem with this is Resource levelling, that is the nightmare i am now facing.
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15 years 9 monthsHi VivtorWhy should you make
Hi Vivtor
Why should you make life difficult. A welder is a welder and an electrician is an electrician. Do not bother to allocate each person to a specific activity. This may be the a exception for specialized trade. Make resources groups in the Enterprise tab of P6 and allocate the number of resources, Say 20 welder, 25 electricians . This allows you to level resources as resource group for welders ,electricians etc. Recourse leveling on the names Achmed, John or Claus is useless.
Human Resources and time keeping systems are better for tracking man hours.
Johannes
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13 years 9 monthsHi Victor, I am facing a
Hi Victor,
I am facing a similar problem, my schedule is about 9000 lines and i have about 500 resources. What i have done is I have devided my schedule into 6 sections, The hard work is on section 1 where i have to manually allocate all of these resources however from section 2 to section 6 i have just copied and pasted as it is a repitation. This means that the resources i used on section 1 will be exactly the same for section 2 to section 6, which makes sense. The problem with this is Resource levelling, that is the nightmare i am now facing.
Hope it helps
Hlami Baloyi