Contents of the Manage Vendor Workforce Screen

Use the fields and options to configure the Manage Vendor Workforce screen.

Identification

Field Description
Project

Enter, or click to select, a valid project for which to enter data. You must enter the top level of the project if you selected the Use Top Level Workforce check box on the Basic Info tab of the Manage Project User Flow screen. If you do not select this check box, enter the transaction level of the project.

If you did not select the Project Workforce Required check box on the Basic Info tab of the Manage Project User Flow screen, Costpoint displays the following warning when you enter the project ID: "Project Workforce is not required."

If the project is not a top-level project and you selected the Use Top Level Workforce check box on the Basic Info tab of the Manage Project User Flow screen, any records entered are ignored and Costpoint displays the following warning when you enter the project ID: "The Use Top Level Workforce box has been selected for this project. Only the record at the top level of the project will be used. Lower level records will be ignored."

This is a required field. The unlabeled field to the right displays the description of the project. This description is defined on the Basic Info tab of the Manage Project User Flow screen.

Vendors

Field Description
Vendor

This column displays each vendor available to be added to the project workforce. If the project is the top level and the Use Top Level Workforce check box is selected on the Basic Info tab of the Manage Project User Flow screen, your selections apply to the top level and to all the lower levels of the project. If the Use Top Level Workforce check box is not selected, you must select vendors for each project transaction level. Highlight the vendors you want to include in the project workforce, then click the Select button.

Vendor Name

This non-editable column displays the name of each vendor in the Vendor column. The name is defined on the Manage Vendors screen.

Select

Once you have highlighted vendors in the Vendors table window, click this button to move them to the Selected Vendors table window.

Selected Vendors

Field Description
Vendor

This column displays the vendor of each subcontractor authorized to charge this project. If the project is the top level and the Use Top Level Workforce check box is selected on the Basic Info tab of the Manage Project User Flow screen, your selections apply to the top level and to all the lower levels of the project. If the Use Top Level Workforce check box is not selected, you must select vendors for each project transaction level.

Vendor Name

This non-editable column displays the name of each vendor shown in the Vendor column. The name was defined on the Manage Vendors screen.

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.

Subtask

Subtask Description
Assign PLC to Vendor Workforce Use the Assign PLC to Vendor Workforce subtask to assign Project Labor Categories (PLCs) to each vendor who is a member of the project vendor workforce for a specific project.