Material Costs

[John Cello]

Apparently the density of my skull bone impairs me from figuring this out, so
i beg for help.

Putting together a project plan for training courses. In these courses, I
will use tests, which I have entered as material resources with a per use
cost. The problem I am running into is that when I assign these resources to
a task, the cost isn't adding up.

For example, one test has a cost of $20. If I assign that resource to a
task, with 20 units, the cost should calculate to be $400, right? But it sits
at $20 (or whatever the cost per use of that particular resource is.)

Please let me know what I'm doing wrong here.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

John --

Enter the $20 in the Std. Rate column and that should solve your problem
nicely. Hope this helps.

 

[John Cello]

Dale:

Thank you so much. I was thinking it would use the cost per use field.

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

the "cost per use" is an amount over and above the resource rate that is
charged to your budget once for each task the resource is assigned to. Joe
has an hourly cost of $10 and a cost per use of $5. We assign him to 1
5-day task. The cost is $400 plus $5 for a total of $405. If instead we
assign him to 5 1-day tasks, the cost is $400 plus 5*$5 for a total of $425.
An interesting use of this - Joe installs windows on a piece rate, doesn't
get paid for his time at all but gets paid $25 per window. He needs to
install 10 windows. Set it up with a resource standard rate of zero, ot
rate of zero, and cost per use of $25. Create a summary task "install
windows" with 10 subtasks, win1, win 2, etc. Assign Joe to all the
subtasks. Total cost of the "Install Windows" summary becomes $250.