Material requirement
Applications for the view Material requirement:
- Display of the project's demand for materials.
- Resource allocation from the perspective of resources.
- Calculation of the total efforts for and total costs of every
single material.
- Visualisation of the allocation of materials to
activities.
You can use the view Material requirement for the
following:
- Assign selected activities to a material.
- Analyse the material requirements by help of filter
settings.
- Change the timescale.
- Quick access to the resource pool.
Context menu in the view Material requirement
- Expand/collapse all materials – Depending on the
preferred view, you can expand/collapse all materials.
- Display in reference to subprojects - The requirements
of materials is not shown for the overall project, but for each of
the subprojects separately. However, only those subprojects are
considered that are on the level immediately below the overall
project.
- Sort materials – All displayed materials can be sorted
along number, name or code.
- Place activities in one row, if possible - Displays the
activities entered for a material in one row, if possible.
For better presentation, activities overlapping in time are shown
in separate rows.
- Sort activities – All displayed activities can be sorted
along number, start date and finish date.
- Additional break-even chart – You can view an additional
break-even chart in the lower area of the window Material
requirement.
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