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

Using Dashboards for Resource Management in P6 EPPM

Dashboards are a good way of enabling and helping the resource manager access the information that's traditionally very hard to find. Who's working on what projects? What time frame are they working on? How much work have they got left to do? - that will all be answered in this lesson video.

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In this lesson, we're going to look at Resource Supply and Demand, as it's often called, but realistically demand and supply. So Resource Demand, is when a job is needed or a person is needed to complete an activity, we know the type of individual that's needed. In this case, we need a project manager.

Now it might be there's some additional factors that go alongside that. Whether or not you build that into P6, is up to you. But what you're able to do is request up to four additional codes in P6. So I could say if we've got locations for resources, I could say I need a project manager in this location with this specific technological skill. So you can put those requests in as well.

So the demand is the need or the resource required to complete an activity. So in this instance, here, demand comes in the form of a role and because roles were associated with the resources, I can assign that individual against the request. So Tim Harris is the resource. They've requested a project manager and one I've assigned them, Tim Harris has filled that request for a project manager.

So very simply here, the demand, project manager. The resource is the specific individual supplied to complete the work. I'm going to look at dashboards when used for resource management. And I've set up a dashboard specifically for a resource manager. If you've not looked at t...

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