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[Bill]

I have a fab shop with ten men......I just want to be able to check my over
booking on shop hours. When I sell a job with an amount of manhours
estimated and a schedule of delivery to keep, how do I set a resource or
group with total available manhours to a set calender duration for each
project or task. The bottom line is that if I sell multiple jobs with
overlapping schedules I just want to be able to see my need for added labor
or overtime.

Thanks for any help. Bill

 

[JulieS]

Hi Bill,

You have a couple of options. If you want each job as a separate project
file, then I would set up a resource pool file listing just resources and
then create project files for each job. Connect the "job" files to the pool
to be able to look at resource overallocation across multiple "job" files.

If the "job files" are small, you could put them all in one file with the
resources defined in that one file. Again, as you assign resources, you
will be able to see where overallocations (too few people for too many
tasks) are.

You may want to review Mike Glen's excellent series of article about MS
Project at:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23

Take particular note of Articles 17 & 18.

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

Julie