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Update Earned Value History - Contracts Job

Use the update earned value history - contracts job to calculate earned value for a contract or set of contracts and to create earned value snapshots of the time sliced data. The data is based on the earned value reporting period that the contract manager assigns to the contract and the parameters you select. The earned value snapshot is used for historical earned value analysis (EVA) and reporting. The snapshots are stored in rows in the PRJ_EV_HISTORY (earned value history) table. You can use this reporting data to write reports.

This job uses the lag value to determine the day to take the snapshot. A snapshot is taken on the first day following the defined lag, provided you do not run the job on that day.

Example: Monthly with Three Day Lag

If you schedule this job to run monthly starting 2/1/11 with a lag of three days and you have associated the contract to an earned value reporting period whose period type is defined as Monthly and frequency is the first day of the month, a snapshot for January 2011 is generated only when the job runs on 2/04/11 or later.

For each contract that meets the job parameter criteria, this job:

Requirements

To create a historical snapshot, the contract requires:

Restrictions

This job cannot run concurrently with any other instance of the update earned value history - contracts job.

Parameters

The following parameters are provided:

Note: If you do not complete any of the parameters, all the contracts are processed.

Contract

Defines the name of the contract.

OBS Unit

Defines the name of the OBS Unit.

Contract Manager

Defines the name of the contract manager.

Lag

Determines the number of days to wait before taking the snapshot. Use this setting to defer taking a historical snapshot so that your organization can reconcile actuals from one system to another.

Rewrite Existing Snapshot

Indicates whether you want this job to regenerate the current reporting period snapshot and replace the existing current periodic snapshot with updated data. When cleared, those contracts that already have periodic snapshots are ignored.

Default: Cleared

Show Projected ACWP

Indicates the job to create data for the projected actual cost of work performed (ACWP) of all CWBS elements.

Default: Cleared

Show Projected BCWP

Indicates the job to create data for the projected budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP) of all CWBS elements.

Default: Cleared

Show Projected BCWS

Indicates the job to create data for the projected budgeted cost of work scheduled (BCWS) as of the date for projects and project tasks that are linked to the contract work packages.

Default: Cleared