Material resource rate use

[gouaux86]

I am working on a Project management assignment which entails scheduling and
cost control. As a part of the assignment I built a notional schedule in
project based on a real home imporvement project (with durations, resources
and etc..) I need to calculate the project earned at a particular point in
time. The assignments dictates progression inserting several "trouble
spots". One area I am having problems with is one task is 50% complete, but
100% of the material required has been used.

My question is, how do show all of the material resources budgeted for the
task have been used with the task 50% complete?

 

[JulieS]

Hi gouaux86,

You may use the Task Usage view (add actual work to the time-scaled portion)
to track actual material usage. If you mark a task 50% complete, Project
will assume you have used 50% of the assigned material resources. Enter in
the actual material units used in the actual work row.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.
Julie

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

The resource sheet allows you to mark where in the plan the resource will
have been considered to be used - your options are at start of task,
prorated over the task, or at end of task. Situations such as you describe
would call for you to consider 100% of the resource used up at the instant
the task begins. The problem I see is do all the resources actually get
spent when the task begins or are they used steadily over the duration of
the task and for the task in question here you underestimated the materials
required? With most sorts of material resources, items that are
incorporated into the task deliverable like bricks or are consumed going the
work of the task, like fuel for a generator, having used up 100% of the
budgeted resource when I've only done 50% of the duration means that I
seriously underestimated how much of that resource I'd need - I've run out
of gas when I'm only half-way to my destination. I need to revise the total
resource estimated so it reflects how much will really be required.