Configuring costs and deliverables

You can configure costs and deliverables with the following preferences:

• cost_default_currency
• ScheduleDeliverableWSOTypes

Schedule Manager allows sites to define user rates for calculating both schedule and task costs. These rates are defined with either the Organization application or with Schedule Manager using the rate modifiers function.

Rates set with the Organization application are global; they are used with Schedule Manager and other applications.

Rates set with Schedule Manager apply only to Schedule Manager costs and are not reflected back to the Organization application.

To prevent unauthorized users from viewing and changing user rates, Teamcenter defines the CostDBA role and establishes the following rules:

• Only users with the CostDBA role can read and write the overall user rates as defined by the Organization application.
• Only users with the CostDBA role can define rate modifiers (multiplier or custom).
• Schedule coordinators can read and write schedule member rates for both users and disciplines in their schedules.
• Schedule coordinators can create, read, and write fixed costs in their schedules.
• Coordinators can read and write billing codes, billing subcodes, and rate modifiers.
• Participants and observers can read only billing codes, billing subcodes, and rate modifiers.

When a coordinator adds a user to the schedule, a rate for that user is also added. If the coordinator is logged on as CostDBA, the rate added is the rate set for that user in the Organization application. Otherwise, the rate defaults to $0.00.

Users that are permitted to view a dialog box, but are not permitted to view a value in a column, see the value NA.

You can configure earned value management calculations with the following preferences:

• SM_EVM_Calc_Labels
• SM_EVM_Calc_Preference
• SM_EVM_Export_Units
• SM_EVM_Work_Complete