What Essential Topics Need to Learn in Primavera P6
February 18th, 2015 by Madan Mohan
1. How to update 1 master schedule automatically from 20 no. of vendor / contractor /Subcontractor (.XER) file?
2. How to edit Base line which once already created & used in the project where as schedule is updated along with Actual dates? ( No need to create BL1/2/3)
3. How to do Cash Flow in real time in Primavera P6?
What is the Cash flow as per the real Industry meaning –
Lets assume 1 Equipment need to be procured for your project, then what are steps to make payment –
1. 10% of the payment on releasing Order or LOI
2. 30% of the payment to be released after Inspection
3. 40% of the payment to be released goods after shipment or on site
4. 20 % of the rest to be paid after 1 month of commissioning.
Actually Primavera simple doing – total Budget/ total duration & showing the cash flow which is totally in sense.
Lets assume 1 Equipment need to be procured for your project, then what are steps to make payment –
1. 10% of the payment on releasing Order or LOI
2. 30% of the payment to be released after Inspection
3. 40% of the payment to be released goods after shipment or on site
4. 20 % of the rest to be paid after 1 month of commissioning.
Actually Primavera simple doing – total Budget/ total duration & showing the cash flow which is totally in sense.
4. What is the Cost overrun & Delay Analysis & how to show in Primavera?
5. How to update your schedule on physical % complete & if updated then how to show remaining duration?
6. How Free Float & Total Float calculated what the logic is behind?
7. How to make non critical activity to critical activity & Critical activity to non critical activity?
8. How to put Ordinal Durations in column?
9. What is the Retain Logic & its application in various ways?
10. Working schedule in cross platform? Practical exercise to import MSP files to P6 files & excel to P6 vice versa.
11. How to convert P3 file to P6 file & vice versa
12. How to create Project without WBS but it can be present as WBS (very Important)
13. What are the fixed units, fixed unit/time, fixed duration & units/time & fixed duration & units? Again it varies as per preserve & Recalculate method. Knowing in details is very essential.
14. How to use resource properly for material, there is no. of ways to find /options.
15. How to Resolving Resource Over-allocations in Primavera P6
16. What is a Level of Effort in Primavera P6 & how to implement?
17. How to work different WBS levels?
18. How to work in multi Activity codes?
19. How to Creating & Organizing a Resource Pool in Primavera P6?
20. What is the ROI & how to implement?
21. How to work on Scheduling log file.
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