Re: [webERP-users] how to record labor hours spent on a project

[Phil D. <ph...@lo...>]

Well having created a work order, you then issue materials and labour to 
it and receive finished goods from it. When all the materials and labour 
have been issued and the finished goods received from it the work order 
is closed and the stock of the (unsold) finished items are revalued as 
necessary.

Yes  I do think a timesheet interface would be cool to put time into 
works orders with employees in particular work centres perhaps mapped to 
labour items.

I have for the past few years ... now working for a project engineering 
business wanted to have a project which can consist of any number of 
contracts.... webERP contract functionality allows for entry of nominal 
items directly to the contract cost as well as issuing stock and labour 
to a contract work order... each contract would be for a specific 
section of the project and you could get into timings and which 
contracts need to be done before subsequent "contracts" and a resultant 
gaant chart project plan.

I have started a spec describing this fairly extensive development.

http://www.weberp.org/wiki/ProjectManagementPercentCompletion

Since working for this engineering business where some contracts 
represent a significant part of the turnover, percentage completion 
accounting has become my new world and it would be cool to build this 
into webERP too - a MASSIVE undertaking ... but building up for a new 
challenge. If only there were a sponsor for this!!

Phil

Phil Daintree
Logic Works Ltd - +64 (0)275 567890
http://www.logicworks.co.nz

On 28/09/16 20:21, Dale Scott wrote:
>>> I could create
>>> a part number for each project, and use work orders to record labor as
>>> if the project was a production part. Is this possible?
>> Yes that's correct... you can create any number of labour type items ...
>> the stock type when you define a stock category allows for a labour type
>> to be defined - this then allows for GL entries to recover labour (CR a
>> P & L account/DR WIP) when there is an issue of this labour to a work
>> order. These labour items can also be part of the bill of material at a
>> particular work centre.
> Hi Phil, thanks for your comments. To experiment, I created a project (manufactured stock item) and a labour stock item, then created a manufacturing BOM for the project with the labour item only. However I can't figure out how to use work orders. I've tried creating a work order for the project, but it's not clear if it was in fact created, or what the next step is. I'll post how far I've got to the forum with screen shots if it would help. My goal is a documented procedure or HowTo, in whatever form would be most useful to WebERP.
>
>> Not sure of any other way... a timesheet interface would be cool to put
>> time into works orders with employees in particular work centres perhaps
>> mapped to labour items.
> Having separate labour for each work center might be useful for work work capacity planning.
>
> Are you aware of any successful timesheet integrations with WebERP? Do you think such a feature would be used at all? I think some basic level of "HRM" together with basic level of project management capability could be really useful to smaller organizations needing simple integrated low-cost tools, although this may be too specialized a use to have significant interest. I saw discussion of time sheets in the mailing list, but only concept - no working code.
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