Labor Resource Forecast

The Labor Resource Forecast report displays the forecasted hours, costs, and billing amounts by project plan, employee, and generic labor categories. If a resource or a work breakdown structure (WBS) element in a plan does not have planned hours scheduled during the reporting period, DPS does not include that resource or WBS element on the report.

You can use this report to do the following:

• Review daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly assignments with your project team.
• Check individual employee utilization for potential adjustments.
• Balance staffing requirements across project plans.
• Verify reasonable resource utilization.

Utilization Alerts

You specify expected working hours on the Personal tab of the Employees hub.

To identify deviations from the expected working hours for employees on this report, set the Format option on the General tab to Alerts and enter a percentage in Standard Utility Percentage.

• The report displays Over for a period for employees whose hours exceed the expected hours by more than the percentage specified in Standard Utility Percentage.
• The report displays Under for a period for employees whose hours are less than the expected hours by more than the percentage in Standard Utility Percentage.

Resource Sort Sequence

Use the Resource Sort Sequence option on the Sorting/Grouping tab when you create resource assignments for employees or generic resources in a specific order, and you want the report to display them in that order.

For example, suppose you create the following resource assignments in the sequence shown:

Task A

Engineer

William Apple

Draftsperson

Task B

William Apple

Draftsperson

Engineer

To duplicate this resource assignment sequence when you generate the report, select both the Resource Sort Sequence sorting option and the Task Number sorting option on the Sorting/Grouping tab.

Options Dialog Box

Use the Options dialog box to specify reporting options for a report. Depending on the report, the dialog box contains one or more of the following tabs: General, Sorting/Grouping, Columns, Budget, Metrics, User Defined Sections, Activity, Drill Down, Layout, and Graph.