Primavera Contractor Training Course

 

Training Type:  Classroom Training – Also available online

Locations: Downtown Toronto

Duration:  Weekend : Sat-Sun ( 10 AM- 6 PM) .  Or Weekdays 2 Days : Mon-Tue ( 10 AM- 6 PM)

Number of Students: Small group, limit to 4 students

Tools:  Laptop for each student during the training hours

 

Primavera Contractor is an affordable solution specifically built for contractors that makes scheduling, reporting, and progress planning simple. As a contractor, the ability to build an effective schedule that everyone on your project can understand and use is crucial. Primavera Contractor allows you to continually communicate and provide accurate and up-to-date reports to the project manager as necessary throughout the project to ensure you get paid on time.

This 2 days introductory level course  provides hands-on training for Oracle’s Primavera Contractor.  Students will gain hands-on experience building a new schedule, updating / monitoring the schedule, and generating reports. Participants also gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling.

 

Who should attend Primavera Contractor training Course?

  • Program and project managers , planners and schedulers ,Business Analyst, End User, Functional Implementer

 

Course Objectives:

  • Creating a project including activities and resources
  • Schedule a project and determine how to effectively optimize a project

Prerequisite( s ) :

  • Project planning/management fundamentals (desirable)
  • Knowledge of Windows

At the completion of this course you will be able to:

  • Create a project
  • Assign a calendar to a project
  • Add activities and relationships to a project
  • Organize a project using activity codes
  • Perform manual schedule calculations
  • Apply constraints to an activity
  • Modify activity information
  • Track progress on an activity
  • Create and customize layouts
  • Apply filters to a project
  • Customize the appearance of a project for reporting purposes
  • Import and export project data

Primavera Contractor Course Outline:

  • Introduction
  • Navigating
  • Creating a project and Work Breakdown Structure
  • Creating Activities
  • Creating Relationships
  • Scheduling the project
  • Assigning Constraints to a Project
  • Optimizing the Project
  • Baselining the Project
  • Executing the Project
  • Creating Output
  • Customizing Projects
  • Workshop Exercises

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Related Primavera P6 Classes

Primavera Contractor is an affordable solution specifically built for contractors that makes scheduling, reporting, and progress planning simple. As a contractor, the ability to build an effective schedule that everyone on your project can understand and use is crucial. Primavera Contractor allows you to continually communicate and provide accurate and up-to-date reports to the project manager as necessary throughout the project to ensure you get paid on time.

Primavera Contractor was built to get you planning and scheduling immediately – right out of the box. With easy and intuitive navigation, you will begin planning and controlling your project faster than Add activities quickly and easily, drag and drop activity bars to add constraints or modify your plan, and still take full advantage of Critical Path Scheduling. Interactive, flexible PERT and Gantt charts make it simple for general contractors to communicate with the client as well as other designers and contractors. Future Period Bucket Planning enables Planner/Scheduler to enter a custom distribution, or spread, per resource or role assignment, to model resource requirements in a way that truly reflects how the work is planned and performed. With Primavera Contractor, planning the work and managing changes is quick and easy.

Features

Plan and manage small to mid-sized projects
Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling and resource leveling
Assign resources to tasks and track progress
Produce project reports and graphics
Perform baseline schedule and cost comparisons
Imports and exports Primavera P6 project formats

Benefits

Plan and schedule projects quickly and easily
Control budgets, changes, and estimates at completion to ensure a successful project delivery
Easily share project information with Oracle’s Primavera P6 Professional Project Management
Allocate resources to activities using distribution curves to accurately reflect how the work is performed.
Communicate status to general contractors, subcontractor, owners and other project team members via customizable graphics and industry standard reports.
Easily compare your baseline budgets to the actual costs and work performed while maintaining independent versions of cost to complete estimations.
Create unlimited “what-if” scenarios to explore alternatives

A certificate of completion is available upon completing the training.