Budget Quantity / Man-Hour Adjustment

During the course of a project, it is typical to have scope modifications that warrant changes to quantities and/or labor hours.

It is important to remember that changing man-hours or quantities will affect budgeted values of MH/QTY, QTY/MH, and Unit-Costs, but will not change the overall dollar value of your budget.

InEight Control contains a Budget Quantity / Man-Hour Adjustment Wizard that walks you through the following steps for performing a quantity and/or man-hour adjustment:

  1. Select Items

  2. Assign Amounts (quantities, man-hours, or both)

  3. Summary (submit to pending)

The following Step by Step walks you through the process for performing a budget quantity adjustment:

Perform a Budget Quantity / Man-Hour Adjustment

  1. Select the Actions drop-down menu, hover over Budget move & contract adjustment, then click Budget quantity & Man hour adjustment. 

    • The Budget quantity & Man Hours adjustment – Details window appears

  2. Type 002XX in the Issue # free text box (where XX are your initials).

  3. Type 002XX in the CCO (Contract Change Order) text box (where XX are your initials).

  4. Type Tonnage increase due to material change in the Description free text box.

    • It is recommended that each budget adjustment have a concise description of why the adjustment is needed

  5. Click Next.

    • The Select Items window appears

  6. Select the a cost item from the tasks list.

    • You can select more than one cost item to adjust, however these changes will be grouped as a single line item in the Change Register

  7. Click Next.

    • The Assign Amounts window appears

  8. Enter the change to the man-hours or quantities into the appropriate field. For this example, type 5,000 in the Quantity field.

  9. Click Next.

    • The Summary window appears

  10. Review your changes, then click Submit to send them out for approval.

    • This budget move is now listed in the project’s Change Register with a status of Pending

Later in this lesson, you will learn how to approve and modify budget changes from the Change Register.