MANAGE PROJECT LABOR CATEGORIES (PLC)

Use this screen to set up Project Labor Categories (PLCs) to be used for tracking charges. Costpoint uses these PLCs to compute revenue and billing on Loaded Labor projects. You must populate this company-wide table before you can use PLCs in the other project-specific screens.

This function builds the table of all PLCs, irrespective of project. After you have defined a PLC here, you can assign it to any project, or you can use the PLC without a project and assign it a general billing rate for all projects.

The first case, assigning a PLC to a given project, is used for Time and Material projects, which require a billing rate for a client-specified labor category.

The second case, using a PLC without assigning it to a project, allows for the assignment of a standard company-wide labor category to be billed with a standard company-wide rate for all projects.

Use this screen to initialize any new PLC, irrespective of whether the category is used company-wide or attached to a project.

Location

Table Window

Labor Category

Enter a labor category. The labor category can represent a single employee or a group of employees who have similar skills and perform similar tasks.

Description

This field displays the description of the PLC entered on this row. This description is user-defined and appears on Costpoint Billings and Projects reports whenever the PLC is used. You can modify this description on the Link Project Labor Categories to Projects screen if a project requires a unique description.

Subtasks

Subtask

Description

Billing Rates

Click this link to open a subtask where you can attach company-wide billing rates to each PLC set up on the main screen.