Activity Unit and Cost Fields

The main field types in Primavera Cloud that are used to measure the different aspects of an activity's progress are Planned, Actual, Remaining, and At Completion. Each of these types supports unit and cost values. Unit and cost fields can be entered at the activity level or assignment level based on resource type. Unit values can be added to labor and nonlabor resources. Cost values can be added to labor, nonlabor, and material resources. Values added to role assignments are counted as labor values.

Activity-level field names indicate the field type, resource type, and whether the value is a unit or cost. Some examples of activity-level fields include Planned Labor Units, Planned Nonlabor Units, Actual Labor Units, Actual Nonlabor Cost, Remaining Material Cost, and At Completion Material Cost. Activities also support separate Total Cost fields that aggregate all labor, nonlabor, and material costs for each of the four field types.

Assignment-level field names indicate the field type and whether the value is a unit or cost. Some examples of assignment-level fields include Planned Units, Actual Units, Remaining Cost, and At Completion Cost. Values entered at the assignment level roll up to the corresponding activity field that matches the type of the assignment. For example, Planned Units entered on all nonlabor resource assignments roll up to the Planned Nonlabor Units field at the activity level. Remaining Cost values entered on all material resources roll up to the Remaining Material Cost field at the activity level.

Unit and cost fields are supported in your current schedule, scenarios, and baselines. For comparison purposes, baselines also support read-only Planned, Actual, and Variance fields for each baseline type. Baseline variance fields measure the difference between the baseline's Planned field value and the current schedule's corresponding At Completion value. Examples of baseline variance fields include Original BL Variance - Labor Units, Original BL Variance - Nonlabor Cost, and Current BL Variance - Material Cost.