In looking at various clients who are using or trying to use workplan functionality in Oracle Project Management (PJT), I find that the most important issue people face (after they get all the suitable patches needed to get work plans to work correctly) is getting actuals to map into planned resources precisely.

A constant need for Project-based organizations is the need for their project systems to provide them with automated alerts for significant events in the execution of their projects. These events may have occurred during the ordinary course of business or maybe upcoming.

The advent of Project Partners UI-Appshas provided the ability to provide this critical function for project managers via an easy-to-use Excel interface for users of Oracle EBS Projects applications. Continue reading:

PJM is a solution delivered by Oracle to enable ATO/ETO-type firms that design and build manufactured items to client specifications. Each client order is managed as a project (due to some constraints), but the execution is done primarily in Project Manufacturing.

This is the first entry in what I hope will be a long-running log of business cases, issues, solutions, and anecdotes that I encounter in my day/s as someone who runs a project-based business, implements ERP solutions for project-based businesses, and advises users in project-based environments.