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Assign PLC to Vendor Workforce Subtask

Use this subtask to assign Project Labor Categories (PLCs) to each vendor who is a member of the project vendor workforce for a specific project.

You must set up PLCs on the Manage Project Labor Categories (PLC) screen.

Use this screen to assign PLCs to vendors of the project vendor workforce. After you have assigned the PLCs, you need to maintain this screen only when modifications are required.

PLCs

Field Description
PLC

This non-editable column displays all of the PLCs that were assigned to the project; this is the set of PLCs available for that project. Select one or more PLCs to be linked to one or more vendors in the Selected Vendors table window.

PLC Description

This non-editable column displays the description of each PLC.

Selected Vendors

Field Description
Vendor

This non-editable column displays the vendors who have been added to the workforce (that is, those that are entered in the Selected Vendors table window on the Manage Vendor Workforce screen). Select one or more vendors to which you want to assign the PLC(s) you selected in the PLCs table window.

Vendor Name

This non-editable column displays the name of each vendor in the Vendor column.

Select

After you select one or more PLCs in the PLCs table window and one or more vendors in the Selected Vendors table window, click this button to add a record of each PLC and vendor combination to the PLCs Assigned to Vendor Workforce table window.

PLCs Assigned to Vendor Workforce

This table window displays all the PLCs assigned to the vendor workforce. You can add rows to this table by using the PLCs and Selected Vendors table windows, or by clicking the New button and selecting the PLC you want to link to a vendor.

Field Description
PLC

Enter, or click to select, a PLC to be linked to a vendor.

PLC Description

This column displays the description of each PLC.

Default PLC

Select this check box to have this PLC default into the timesheet when this vendor works on this project. Since you can set up multiple PLCs for each vendor/project combination, you must specify which PLC is the timesheet default.

For any given vendor/project combination, there must be at least one PLC with this check box selected. If this check box is clear, the PLC does not default, but is available for when you enter vendor timesheets. This field does not affect labor entered via journal entries, since no PLC defaults are offered for journal entries. If Default PLC = Y, the starting and ending dates will be automatically cleared.

Vendor

Enter, or click to select, a vendor to which you want to assign the project labor category you specified in the PLC column. Only vendors that are part of the workforce (that is, those that are entered in the Selected Vendors table window) are available for selection.

Vendor Name

This column displays the name of each vendor in the Vendor column.

Starting Date

Enter, or click to select, the vendor's starting date.

Note: For Costpoint Cloud, you can choose to opt in to this feature for the Costpoint 8.2.12 release. The ability to opt in is temporary and will be removed when the feature becomes automatically enabled for all users as part of a future Costpoint release. See the Manage Opt-In Features topic for more information.
Ending Date

Enter, or click to select, the vendor's ending date.

Note: For Costpoint Cloud, you can choose to opt in to this feature for the Costpoint 8.2.12 release. The ability to opt in is temporary and will be removed when the feature becomes automatically enabled for all users as part of a future Costpoint release. See the Manage Opt-In Features topic for more information.