Review Work Centres
This form is enabled if you use Advanced Job Cost Work Centre Plans.
Use this tab to view details by Work Centre of Jobs with Work Centre Plans. The table shows details within each selected job by Work Centre in the sequence determined by the job's work centre plan.
Users who have completion permissions for a level can change the Actual Complete Date and % Complete, and can select to calculate and update the % Complete for the work centres.
Work centres that have been completed are read-only.
Options Reference
Each option and field on the form is described below. Mandatory options and fields are highlighted in red.
If there is an enquiry you make frequently (for example, to view jobs for a particular manager), you can enter your criteria and save them by clicking Save Criteria and assigning a name. Click Load Criteria to load saved criteria before applying your search.
Enter one or several filters to determine the enquiry output. For example, you can select a profit centre and charge type combination, or a sub-set of specific jobs. You can do this when entering search criteria:
- To select more than one specific Job (or other type), select the first one. It is copied to the field to the right of the Search field. As you more jobs, they append to the string on the right side, delimited by a comma.
- To enter a range of search criteria, enter it into the field on the right side of the Search field, and use a colon to separate the lowest and highest value. For example, enter 400001:400005 to include all Jobs from 400001 to 400005.
- You can use wildcards to include a specific group of criteria.
For example,
- 00* includes all codes with a string starting with 00.
- 1* includes all codes with a string starting with 1.
- *0 includes all codes ending in 0.
You can also filter the output using the Job flag: open, closed or finalised jobs, and job trees.
Click Search Now to return job details to the table based on your search criteria.
Work Centre
Select the work centres whose details to display.
Show all Work Centres per Job
If not selected, only work centres that have data entered against them display.
If you select this option, all work centres available to that job that match the Work Centre Plan display.
Table
For each work centres, these details are shown:
Job |
The job code. Only jobs that use a Work Centre Plan that have the selected criteria display. |
Work Centre Plan |
The name of the Work Centre Plan. |
Select |
This is enabled for users who have completion permissions for the work centres level. |
Work Centre |
The work centre's code. If the Show all Work Centres per Job option is not selected, then only those that have transaction estimates for them display. |
Description |
The work centre's description. |
Scheduled Start |
This is entered in the job's Work Centre table to indicate the scheduled start date of this phase of the job. |
Scheduled Complete |
This is entered on the job's Work Centre table to indicate the scheduled complete date of this phase of the Job. |
Actual Start (display only) |
This uses the earliest transaction on this work centre. The Posting Date on timesheet transactions is used. |
Actual Complete |
This date indicates the completion of this phase of the job. The presence of any date prevents further data entry to this level. Users who have completion permissions set up in JC Work Centre Plan Maintenance can enter or change this date. |
Calc % Complete |
This value is the result of selecting the level and clicking the Calculate button, using the % Complete Method used. |
% Complete |
This value is the percentage of completion for this phase. You can enter it here, or Greentree Desktop can calculate it by clicking the Select box then clicking the Calculate button. A value of 100 prevents further data entry to this level. Users who have completion permissions set up in JC Work Centre Plan Maintenance can enter or change this value. |
Est Cost |
This uses the estimate line's Start Date if it falls in the selected From/To period range, it is included. |
Actual Cost |
The total costs for this activity or work centre. |
Cost % |
The percentage of actual cost/estimated cost. |
Outstanding PO |
The total outstanding purchase orders. |
Est Hours |
The total estimated hours |
Actual Hours |
The total actual hours. |
Hours % |
The percentage of actual hours or estimated hours. |
Est Retail |
The total retail value of estimates. |
Actual Retail |
The total retail value of the costs. |
% Complete Method |
This is the method by which the percentage completed is calculated:
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Note: Enter estimates either for non-posting levels only or for posting levels only to avoid totals that appear inaccurate. In the JC Job Maintenance Work Centre table and the Review Work Centres table, the non-posting level totals display estimate values entered for the level.
Calculations
Select the lines to include in the calculation process:
- Select All - Use this to select all available work centres in the table click the Select box next to each line). You can also click the Select box beside lines in the table.
- Unselect All - Use this to deselect all work centres in the table.
Calculate
Select this option to perform the calculation of each selected work centre line based on its calculation method. The result displays in the Calc % Complete column.
Clear Calculations
Select this option to clear the calculation of the selected work centres lines from the Calc % Complete column.
Copy Calculations
Select this option to copy the value in the Calc % Complete column into the % Complete column for the selected work centres lines.
Save
Click this button to save your changes (including the copied values).
The calculation methods used are:
Budget v Actual Cost |
(Actual Cost ÷ Estimated Cost) x 100 |
Budget v Actual Hours |
(Actual Hours ÷ Estimated Hours) x 100 |
Budget v Actual Sell |
(Actual Retail ÷ Estimated Retail) x 100 |
Elapsed Time |
(Number of days from the Actual Start Date to today) ÷ (Number of days from the Scheduled Start Date to the Scheduled Completion Date) x 100 Actual Start Date is the date as shown on the Work Centre row on the JC Job Maintenance form Scheduled Start and Scheduled Completion Dates are entered on the Work Centre row on the JC Job Maintenance form If any of those dates is not set/available then the percentage is 0 If the Actual Completion Date is set (to any date) then the percentage calculated is 100 |
None |
No calculation. |
Load Criteria
Click this button to recall saved selection criteria. Then, select the name of the criteria to recall.
Save Criteria
Click this button to save your selection criteria. Then, enter a name for that criteria.