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Resources

• Budget

• Summarize actuals

Resource Lists

You can define a simple list of resources or a two level hierarchy of resource groups and resources. You can select the resource groups as either expenditure categories or revenue categories. The two level hierarchy of resources allows you to budget and review actuals at a higher level using the resource group and then you can drill down to the resources for more details. Oracle Projects summarizes actuals and commitments using the lowest level in the resource list and then rolls up the amounts to the resource group. You can budget using either the resource group or the resource.

You can define different types of resources below each resource group. For example, you may create resources of employees and jobs for the Labor expenditure category, resources of Suppliers under Outside Services, and expenditure types under all other expenditure categories. This type of flexibility allows you to define different types of resources below each resource group as required to best track the actuals under that resource group.

You can define lists of resources which classify the budget and actuals in different ways. Resource lists provide multiple roll up structures for summarizing actuals and commitments for cross project reporting. For example, you may define one resource list by employee and another by job for reviewing actuals using different roll ups.

See Also

Project Status Inquiry