Activity Budget (Labor) (tpptc2630m000)

Use this session to maintain skills that are linked to the task, for the activity budget. You can also maintain assignments that are linked to the budget line, for the activity budget.

Note: 
  • You can access this session from the Activity Budget (tpptc2600m000) session.
  • The Required Skills for Activity Budget Lines (Labor) (tpptc2131m000) session is displayed as a satellite session. You can add and delete skills and modify the Skill Importance.
  • The Assignments (tpptc2170m000) session is displayed as a satellite session. You can set assignments for the specific budget line.
  • The Assignment tab is enabled only if you select the Use Assignments check box in the Project Planning Parameters (tppss0100s000) session.

Field Information

Project

The code that uniquely identifies the project.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Status

The project status.

Allowed values

Free
Active
Finished
Closed
Archived
Plan

The code that uniquely identifies the plan.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Activity

The code that uniquely identifies the activity.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Status

The budget status of the activity.

Allowed values

Free

The data can be modified.

Actual

The data other than the total contract amount, management reserve, and the profit fee, can be modified.

Final

The amounts per activity or cost type in the Top Down Budget Data (tpptc5110s000) session cannot be modified.

Adjustment

If this check box is selected, the budget line linked to an adjustment

Note: If adjustment is specified for a budget line, the adjustment code is displayed along with the difference amount in the Extra Info group box.
Line

The code that uniquely identifies the line number.

An asterisk indicates that the budget line belongs to an adjustment.

Task

The code that uniquely identifies the task.

Description

The description of the task.

Note: 

You can select the code from one of these sessions:

  • Tasks (tppdm0511m000)
  • Project Tasks (tppdm6511m000)
Reference Type

The reference type of the task. This indicates whether the control code is a standard or a project related task.

Allowed values

Project

Specific to the selected project.

Standard

Common to all projects.

Labor Budget
Budget
Quantity

The number of labor units.

Unit

The unit of measure used to express the number of labor hours.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Norm

The production time needed for the realization of a labor unit.

Norm is used in this calculation:

Number of hours = Quantity x Norm
Note: 
  • This field is enabled only if the Budgeting Method is set to Labor Norms in the Project (tppdm6600m400) session.
  • This field is disabled and the value is set to 1, If the Budgeting Method is set to Production Rate.
Norm Unit

The unit of measure used to express the labor norm.

Budget Status

The budget status.

Allowed values

Free

The data can be modified.

Actual

The data other than the total contract amount, management reserve, and the profit fee, can be modified.

Final

The amounts per activity or cost type in the Top Down Budget Data (tpptc5110s000) session cannot be modified.

Budget Date

The budget date that is used as the reference for currency transactions. By default, the budget date as specified for the project is added to the new budget lines.

Text

If this check box is selected, a text is present.

Assignment
Employee

The code of the project employee linked to the activity budget. The code of the preferred project employee for the task that is linked to the activity budget.  .

Name

The name of the employee.

Trade Group

The trade group to which the employee belongs to or the trade group that is required to complete the task.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Planning Factor

The number of employees required to carry out the task.

Note: 
  • This value is defaulted from the Task (tppdm0615m000) or Project Task (tppdm6615m000) session. However, you can modify the value.
  • This value is used in the Resource Management Workbench (tssoc8351m000) session for the planning and scheduling of the work order activities, service activities and project activities.
Department

The code of the department. The Resource Management Workbench (tssoc8351m000) session displays relevant project assignments based on the department specified in this field.

Note: This value is defaulted from the Project Task (tppdm6615m000) session. In case, if the task is only available as a standard task, this value is defaulted from the Task (tppdm0615m000) session. However, you can modify the value.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Start Date

The start date of the budget that is part of the project plan.

Finish Date

The end date of the budget that is part of the project plan. The date is used when you update assignments for People. If you leave the date field empty, the assignment becomes recurrent.

Costs
Cost Rate

The cost amount for labor.

Unit

The unit of measure in which the labor cost is expressed.

/

The unit of measure in which the labor hour is expressed.

Final Labor Rate

If this check box is selected, the labor cost is the final rate that is used for the activity budget.

Cost Amount

The total labor cost amount of the activity budget.

Unit

The unit of measure in which the cost amount is expressed.

Home Amount

The total labor cost amount in home currency.

Unit

The unit of measure in which the cost amount is expressed.

Currency Rate/Rate Factor

The currency rate to convert the transaction currency to the home currency.

Rate Factor

The rate factor.

Contingency Amount

The provisional amount that includes the possible unexpected costs.

Currency

The currency used for the contingency amount. The value is defaulted from the currency in which the Cost Amount is specified.

Sales
Sales Rate

The sales amount for labor.

Unit

The unit of measure in which the sales price is expressed.

Sales Amount

The total labor sales amount of the activity budget.

Home Amount

The total labor sales amount in home currency.

Unit

The unit of measure in which the sales amount is expressed.

Currency Rate/Rate Factor

The currency rate to convert the transaction currency to the home currency.

Rate Factor

The rate factor.

Miscellaneous
Related Details
Seq. No. Subcontracting Line

The code of the subcontracting line number specified for the activity budget.

Note: 

If part of the required labor capacity is supplied by a subcontractor or labor agency, this field records the subcontracting line number in the budget.

The labor time for the subcontractor is specified in the Activity Budget (Subcontracting) (tpptc2113m000) session. The Cost Amount field for the labor line is then set to zero.

Subcontracting

The code that uniquely identifies the subcontracting cost object.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Cost Component

The code that uniquely identifies the cost component linked to the activity budget.

Note: You can only specify a cost component for which the Component Type is set to Detail or Collect in the Cost Components (tcmcs0148m000) session.
Description

The description or name of the code.

Element

The code of the element.

Sequence Number

The sequence number of the labor line linked to the element.

Extension

The code of the extension.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Extra Info
Budget Adjustment Code

The adjustment code.

These fields are also displayed, if adjustment is specified for the budget line.

  • Difference amount: The difference amount based on the budget adjustment.
  • Currency: The currency in which the difference amount is expressed.
  • Quantity: The quantity specified for the activity. This value is defaulted from the Quantity field in the Activities (tppss2100m000) session.
  • Amount of time: The time unit specified for the activity. This value is defaulted from the Number of Time Units field in the Activities (tppss2100m000) session.
External Scheduling Package
Calendar

The code that uniquely identifies the calendar linked to the activity budget.

Calendar Description

The description or name of the code.

Duration

The duration of the activity budget.

Unit

The time unit in which the duration of the activity budget is expressed.

Description

The description or name of the code.

Service
Service Related

If this check box is selected, the labor is linked to a service order.

Project Assignments for Service Related Activities

If this check box is selected, project related assignments can be executed using Service and Project functionality. If this check box is cleared, project related assignments are executed by Service . Creating assignments using the Project functionality is blocked.

Note: 
  • By default, this check box is selected.
  • This check box is enabled only if:
    • The Service Related check box is selected in the Activity Budget (Labor) (tpptc2111m000) session.
    • The Use Assignments check box is selected in the Project Planning Parameters (tppss0100s000) session.
Transferred to Service

If this check box is selected, the item is transferred to Service as a service order.