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Fuzor allows you to calculate costs with resources, import costs from other software or edit costs manually. Costs can be used to create graphs or be exported to a spreadsheet with other scheduling and BIM information to use in other software. Costs appear in the 5D Simulation columns and are associated with the particular set of dates that is loaded into either the primary or secondary simulation columns. By default, the costs displayed in the schedule are the Budgeted and Actual costs of the Project Schedule. It is important to remember that two sets of costs do not have common names with their associated schedules. Important note: If you wish to display Baseline costs in the line graph, then you need to set up your Project Baseline to use that baseline instead of the default. More information provided in the line graph section below. | |||||||
The Budgeted Costs are associated and displayed with the Planned set of dates. The At Completion Costs are associated and display with the Start and End set of dates. | |||||||
Switching the simulation columns to another set of durations and dates will change the data in the cost columns. For more information see Task Table Columns. | |||||||
The Equipment Cost is a sum of Equipment resources and Equipment Content Costs. The Material Cost is a sum of material resource costs The Labor Cost is a sum of Labor resources The Expense Cost is a sum of expenses that are assigned to that task. The Total Cost is the sum of all above cost fields. | |||||||
Opens Task Resources Menu from where you can view and add resources to tasks | |||||||
Opens the Expenses menu which can be used to create expenses. Expenses are an alternative to resources that allow the user to quickly add an expense to a given task. | |||||||
Unlike a resource an expense cannot be reused on another task without entirely recreating it. However, expenses have an accrual parameter that determines how the costs are represented at different times in the task’s duration. | |||||||
Additional Equipment costs can be tied to the vehicles assigned to tasks. The Hourly Rate text is used to calculate equipment resource costs. |
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Assigning resources to tasks is a great way to populate cost data. Additionally when schedules are imported from authoring software resources assignments are interpreted into our system. As a result understanding how to manage the resource assignments is useful even when creating resource in authoring software and importing them into Fuzor. | |||||||
When a resource is selected in the Resources List, tasks with that resource assigned appear in the Resource Tasks List. | |||||||
Removes the associated resource assignment. | |||||||
The Resources column in the gantt displays the primary resource assigned to the task. When selected the Task Resources menu is open. The task Resource menu allows the user to assign resources and control how much of each resource is added to the associated task. | |||||||
Each of the columns in Task Resources are the same columns in the Resource Tasks List. These values can be edited from either menu. The default value for these columns is set in the Resources List but can also be viewed when adding a resource to a task. | |||||||
The Add button opens a menu to list available resources to select from and add to the current task. The Close button closes the window. The Remove button removes the currently selected resource from the task. | |||||||
Resources created using automatic Category resources are automatically assigned and displayed in both the Task Resources and the Resource Tasks Menus. |
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This section provides detailed information on the settings associated with the Line Graph
If you wish to display baseline costs in the line graph instead of planned costs, then you need to set up your Project Baseline to use that baseline instead of the default.
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The Line Graph displays the value of various cost metrics with lines over the duration of the selected dates. Use the Line Graph Settings to select which metrics should appear in the graph. The Show Planned checkbox toggles whether the graph displays the planned line, which describes project baseline planned costs spread over the project baseline planned dates. | |||||||
The Show Actual checkbox toggles whether the graph displays the actual line, which describes active schedule actual costs spread over the actual dates. The Show at Completion value toggles whether the graph displays an additional line describing actual values, except it also includes the remaining costs spread over remaining dates. The Show Earned Value checkbox toggles whether the graph displays project baseline planned costs multiplied by % complete spread over the active schedule actual dates. The Accumulate Cost checkbox toggles whether costs preceding the start date of the graph are included. |
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