Introduction
Primavera P6 EPPM Navigation
Creating a Schedule in P6 EPPM
Resource Management in P6 EPPM
Improving the Schedule
Recording Progress in P6 EPPM

Resource Planning in P6 EPPM

We're going to have a look at the resource planning page in P6 EPPM, what it does, how it can be used, and some suggestions for how you might want to think about using it.

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Okay. In this section, we're going to have a look at the resource planning page, what it does, how it can be used, and some suggestions for how you might want to think about using it. First of all, you open the project that you want to have a look at by clicking on the little button over here, and that will bring up the EPS screen. And I'm going to open up one of the projects that I've been utilizing in these videos, Plan Academy EPS note, and I'm going to select exercise number 16.

Okay, so it opens up the view with WBS showing on the screen. So what you can do is drill down through the different elements of the WBS and assign resources enrolled at this level. Now, this is slightly different to what we've been doing earlier when we were looking at resource assignments and when we were assigning some activities.

This high-level assignment does not show up in the project schedule. This is kept entirely separate, but we can use some of this information to drive our resource analysis and resource graphs. We'll look at that option a little bit later on. But I've just gone down into the procurement area of the work package here.

And if I right-click on that WBS element, I'm able to assign a resource or assign a role. Now if I click on Assign Resource, let's see what we can do. Okay, so in this view, let's see what we've got. At the moment, we've g...

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