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Hi all,

I have a customer in the Construction Industry who is keen to use the Job Rate Management functionality in IFS Cloud. Their requirement is slightly different so I would like to get some insight about the best way to implement this. 

They have projects all over Australia and usually a construction worker will report time using only the project activity and number of hours worked. (means they don’t use specific activities and report codes). At the same time, they have 2 main allowances - Site allowance and Height allowance attached to a job activity that differ from one state to another. 

State Project activity (floor wise) Site allowance Height allwance
Victoria VIC-PJ01-40 (40th floor) 15AUD 20AUD
  VIC-PJ01-50 (50th floor) 15AUD 25 AUD
  VIC-PJ01-60 15AUD 30 AUD
NSW NSW-PJ01-40 20 AUD 25 AUD
  NSW-PJ01-50 20 AUD 30 AUD
  NSW-PJ01-60 20 AUD 35 AUD

 

I’m thinking of a way to do this implementation with minimal customizations, but I cannot figure out a way to map the state wise allowances without doing a customization. 

I’m thinking of a solution like this:

  1. Introduce a custom field on Activity Setup Parameters → Job Rate Management tab to indicate the kind of allowance applicable for an activity. 
  2. Add Site allowance and Height allowance as job cost types. Then use them on the rate agreement and specify the rates.
  3. Connect the employees to the rate agreement, report time using the relevant project activity and continue with the job cost calculation. 

If there is a better way to handle this scenario, I would appreciate your inputs on this. 

Kind regards,

Ashani 

Hi @AshD ,

Provided I understand the requirement correctly you should be able to achieve this without any modifications. By setting up an HCM Property of context Employee, this will become available as a possible Job Cost Parameter:

If you set the Use LoV for Validation, you can define relevant values:
 


If you then set the ‘Use on Job’ flag on the parameter, it will be possible to set as a default on any project/project activity in the Project Setup Parameters:

 

By default, this value will be set when reporting time on the activity, where the value gets saved on the project transaction:

 

After this it should be relatively straightforward to set up relevant values in a rate agreement to calculate correct values for the employee.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Johan

 

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