Cost Management in Primavera P6 Professional

Let's kickstart this Primavera P6 course off by exploring the benefits of cost-loading a schedule. Why bother? What are the key advantages? We'll also dig into the concepts of Top-Down Planning versus Bottom-Up Planning - 2 accepted methods used in many industries. And we'll explore which one Primavera P6 does best and why. Not only that, you'll get an overview of the 2 ways to enter planned costs in Primavera P6 Professional. Learn all about these cost management concepts in this video.

We'll start to learn about cost-loading schedules in Primavera P6 as we explore costs related to labor, non-labor and material resource costs.

Learn how to increase resource rates in Primavera P6 during the project. We'll walk you through the setup of increasing or decreasing resource rates in Primavera P6.

Occasionally, you may want to incorporate a special one-time cost or rate in your cost management plan. This lesson will teach you how to override Primavera P6's resource rates to incorporate those special circumstances.

Expense costs add a versatility to cost management in Primavera P6 that resource costs don't offer. Learn about using Expense Costs in Primavera P6 to cost-load your project.

Learn about cost-loading a schedule by adding expenses in Primavera P6. In this course lesson, you'll learn how to add expenses to any activity following a simple process.

In this lesson, we'll take you step-by-step through the process of cost-loading a project in Primavera P6. We'll take you through adding both resource and expense costs. Get some real practice working with costs in Primavera P6.

In this lesson, learn about top-down cost management practices in Primavera P6 using special activity types. We'll teach you how to use WBS Summary and Level of Effort activities to help you plan and track high-level costs in your project. These special activity types are versatile and can help you ensure you're capturing all of your costs in Primavera P6.

This hands-on workshop will challenge you to put your cost management learning to the test. Try the exercises and follow each step and refer to the lessons for help.