Tigerpaw University

Course No. PRJMGR01 - Project Management

What you will learn - and why

Students will learn how to set up a new project, add phases, assign costs and allocate material and labor from quotes, create service orders for phases, schedule people and resources, track costs applied through parts & labor used on a service order, and invoice throughout the project.

This course is for anyone responsible for managing a project, updating project information, and analyzing job costing.

Prerequisites: Since this course includes the use of quotes, service orders, allocating inventory, and scheduling, students must have a working knowledge of those subjects prior to attending this course. Suggested prerequisite courses include: SALMGR01 Managing the Sales Department, SERMGR01 Managing the Service Department, INVMGR01 Managing Inventory, and ACCTNG01 Interfacing to Accounting and Invoicing.

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Lecture Titles - Class 1

  • Understanding projects, what gets linked to projects, and why.
  • Setting up master tables for projects.
  • Creating a new project.
  • Selecting phases for the project.
  • Entering critical project/phase information.
  • Allocating costs from a quote for a project/phase.
  • Creating a service order for each phase of a project.
  • Scheduling people and resources for a project/phase.
  • Completing phases.

Assignment: Create project related master table codes, and then create a project with four phases. Create a quote, process the quote and allocate costs to the phases, then create service orders for each phase. Schedule at least one technician for each phase. Review the project management screens. Complete the first two phases.

Lecture Titles - Class 2

  • Understanding how actual expenses get charged to a project/phase.
  • Assigning multiple service requests and change orders to a project/phase.
  • Filling parts/labor on service orders assigned to project/phases.
  • Invoicing for a project; by service order or using progress billing.
  • Closing out a project.
  • Job costing - comparing estimate to actual.

Assignment: Fill parts and labor on the service orders you previously created. Create a change order service order with costs. Fill the change order. Perform Project Billing using the progress billing function. Close out all service orders and complete the last progress billing invoice.

 

 

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