Other enhancements

In 10.4, you are not required to specify the budget data in PCL. Budget versioning also is not specified in PCL. The budget data specified in Infor LN is populated in PCL when the jobs are run.

The Scheduled finish date from Infor LN for an activity is the expected finish date in PCL in Project Schedule report.

You are not required to maintain or generate the forecast data in PCL. Forecast data must be generated in Infor LN and published to PCL. The Estimate at Completion value that is used to determine the cost at the completion of the project is transferred from Infor LN at the cost object level. The Estimate to Complete data and the Variance at Completion (variance in cost at the completion of the project) data are calculated in PCL.

The earned value methods, Apportioned and Level of Effort are also enabled for PCL. In 10.4, PCL also supports all the earned value methods.

When the Earned Value method for an activity is Start and End Percentage in Infor LN, the Time Phase and Earned Value data for the specific activity is calculated in PCL, when the percentage data defined for the activity in Infor LN is transferred to PCL.

When the Earned Value method of an activity is Start and End Percentage in Infor LN, the Time Phase and Earned Value data for the specific activity is calculated in PCL when the percentage data defined for the milestones linked to the activity in Infor LN, is transferred to PCL.

Various metrics and reports in PCL can retrieve the data from the source application, Infor LN. The list of entities from which the data is retrieved: