Set Resource Rates to specific Project

[cgrosso]

Good evening,

I'm facing a little problem in Project Server 2007 because in my
Organization we are organized in Business Units and the resources from
one BU can be internally outsourced to another BU (by a specific rate).
This sittuation causes that I nedd to specify for _that_project_ the
final rate that the resource will cost me per hour.

Now in Project I build the team from the enterprise resource pool and
set the negotiated rate. Until here everything goes smothly... The
problem is when I save and close the project plan a open it again... The
cost for that resource returns to the value specified in the resource
pool... It simply deletes the values that I specify in the resource
sheet... Even in the cost rate tables...

Can someone please help me with this issue?

I just want to set the resources rate for a specific project... Is
there any a workaround?

Thanks in advance.
Charlie

 

[ProjmanZA]

Good evening,

I'm facing a little problem in Project Server 2007 because in my
Organization we are organized in Business Units and the resources from
one BU can be internally outsourced to another BU (by a specific rate).
This sittuation causes that I nedd to specify for _that_project_ the
final rate that the resource will cost me per hour.

Now in Project I build the team from the enterprise resource pool and
set the negotiated rate. Until here everything goes smothly... The
problem is when I save and close the project plan a open it again... The
cost for that resource returns to the value specified in the resource
pool... It simply deletes the values that I specify in the resource
sheet... Even in the cost rate tables...

Can someone please help me with this issue?

I just want to set the resources rate for a specific project... Is
there any a workaround?

Thanks in advance.
Charlie

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Hi there ,

Have you tried setting up another rate in the resources alternative
Cost rate table. Then apply that particular rate table to all the
relevant tasks in the "outsourced" project ?

Andre

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Charlie --

In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is dedicated to
the Microsoft Project desktop application only. To answer your question,
only the Project Server administrator can set resource rates, and only in
the Enterprise Resource Pool. No one, not even the Project Server
administrator, can specify resource rates for enterprise resources on a
project by project basis. Your Project Server administrator CAN specify up
to four additional alternate rates on Cost Rate Tables B-E and you can apply
them to task assignments after you assign resources to a task. Would that
be any help in your situation? Let us know.

 

[Projectability]

Charlie,

In addition to the suggestions made here about the alternative resource cost
rate tabs have you considered using a flag field, custom field with the
uplift factor described numerically and a formula? I have met several users
for whom the 5 cost rate tabs are inadequate to model the situation
confronting them as the "uplift" factor tends to be a function of many
things and so can be a widely variable factor.

As a crude example the formula would employ an Iif statement - If flag = No
Resource Cost*0, Resource Cost*factor where the flag is used to indicate if
the resource is charged at the normal or enhanced rate and the factor being
a project level field that describes the uplift to be applied to cross
charged resources. No doubt others on this newsgroup will be able to put a
professional shine on this suggestion.

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