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Deep Dive into Unifier's Cash Flow Management

Veena Bhandarkar,

Principal Product Manager

PGBU Product Strategy

Oracle


Program Agenda

Forecast management using Cash flow by Commitment

– Accurate forecasting for Commitment Cash flows

– Consolidated EFC Using Cash flow Summary Curves

Using Unifier to Cash Flow P6 Schedules

– Bringing Cost Loaded Schedule from P6 into Unifier

– Bringing Duration Based Schedule from P6 into Unifier


Accurate forecasting for Commitment Cash flows


Need to support manual

edits on automated

forecasts tied to Actuals

Solutions

Accurate Forecasting for Commitment Cash flows- Business Problem


Accurate forecast for Commitment Cash flows-Details

Hybrid mode combining Auto and Manual distribution.

Allow for manual editing of auto distributed data with auto distribution

of Unassigned Amount.

– Achieved by providing a temporary manual override option on

forecast curves when the distribution option is set to auto.

– Any Unassigned amount created because of incoming Spends will

be redistributed automatically. This rule is honored provided there is

no prior Unassigned amount left over due to manual distribution.


Accurate forecast for Commitment Cash flows-Details


Consolidated EFC using Summary Curves


As a Cost Engineer, there is a need

to have a default summary of all

commitments and trends for a

project to be able to have an

interactive updated EFC (Estimated

Forecast at Complete).

Solutions

Consolidated EFC- Business Problem


Commitments ,trends etc.

are modeled as different

BPs within Unifier


“Future commit” records

“SAP commitment” records

Cash flow record is

created corresponding to

each BP record


Commitments ,trends etc. are modeled as different BPs within Unifier

Cash flow curve family corresponding to each BP record has been

created

To get an overall EFC, these curves have to be summarized.

Consolidated EFC- Business Problem


New Summary tab in Properties


Default Summary

curve automatically

created


Auto Summarizes

across data sources

from all Active curves

in the Project


Summary curves can now display

details at the WBS levels


Need advanced filtering capabilities

on Summary Curve by following

parameters

WBS selected by users : As

Projects are split into several work

packages, a set of WBS

represents each work-package.

There is a need to be able to

customize the summary curve by

selecting a set of WBS.

Solutions

Summary Curves- Business Problem


i. By period : As Projects could

last several years, and as

budgets are approved on a

yearly basis, there is a need to

customize the summary curve

by time range..

Solutions



i. By Curve type : As the

summary curve is consolidated

by curve type, there is a need

to be able to customize the

summary curve by curve type :

commitments, trends, forecasts

etc.

Solutions



New- filtering

capability on Summary

curves


Filtering on

1) Curve types

2) Time scales

3) WBS/Summary

WBS


Using Unifier to Cash flow P6 Schedules


Need to project cash flow for a cost loaded schedule to analyze cost expenditure over a period of time

Compare multiple Baselines graphically

Solutions

Cost Loaded Schedule- Business Problem

Unifier P6


Cost Loaded Schedule - Details

P6->Unifier

– Cost loaded Schedule within P6

– Baseline and Forecasts from P6

– Actuals captured within Unifier


Cost Loaded Schedule– Cash Flow

Cost Spreads within P6 sent to Unifier Schedule

Sheet

Costs and Dates from the Schedule then used to

define Budget curve

Invoices and Forecasts generated within Unifier

provide indication of project Cash Flow performance

P6 Project Unifier Schedule Sheet

Unifier Cash Flow


Cost Loaded Schedule- Implementation

Cost info in P6 comes into Unifier Schedule Manager

Define Cashflow at “BY WBS”

– In Unifier you can choose the schedule sheet

Baseline ( Configure 1 schedule sheet within Unifier to bring in

Baseline)

Forecast ( Configure 2nd schedule sheet within Unifier to bring in

Forecast)

.


Setting Up Cash flow in Unifier


• Setup multiple data

sources corresponding

to each baseline

• Compare and contrast

the baselines

graphically

Viewing Cash flow in Unifier


Project Managers do a good job

planning, scheduling &

resourcing but need help from

cost engineers to input financial

and costing data and build cash

flows

Solutions

Duration Only Schedule- Business Problem

Unifier P6


Duration Only Schedule- Details

Schedule bring from P6 into Unifier Schedule Manager

Cost from cost sheet within Unifier

Schedule start and finish dates need to be linked to the cash flow at

the WBS code level


Duration Only Schedule- Implementation


Cash flow


Cash flow

Cash flow

dates per code

got from

Activity dates


Thank You

deep dive into unifiers cash flow management - oracle primavera p6 collaborate 14

Business

oracle andor

information purposes

cash flow summary curves

sole discretion of oracle

manual distribution

cash flow p6 schedules

forecast curves

consolidated efc