Use this screen to set up Project Labor Categories (PLCs) to be used for tracking charges. The system uses these PLCs to compute revenue and billing on Loaded Labor projects. You must populate this company-wide table before you can use PLCs in the other project-specific screens.
This function builds the table of all PLCs, irrespective of project. Once you have defined a PLC here, you can assign it to any project, or you can use the PLC without a project and assign it a general billing rate for all projects.
The first case, assigning a PLC to a given project, is used for Time and Material projects, which require a billing rate for a client-specified labor category.
The second case, using a PLC without assigning it to a project, allows for the assignment of a standard company-wide labor category to be billed with a standard company-wide rate for all projects.
Use this screen to initialize any new PLC, irrespective of whether the category will be used company-wide or attached to a project.
Enter a six-character code that will be used to define a labor category. The labor category can represent a single employee or a group of employees who have similar skills and perform similar tasks.
This field displays the description of the PLC entered on this row. This description is user-defined and will appear on Costpoint Billings and Projects reports whenever the PLC is used. You can change this description in the Assign PLC to Projects screen (Projects » Project Setup » Project Labor) if a project requires a unique description.
Click this button to open a subtask where you can attach company-wide billing rates to each PLC set up on the main screen.
This screen updates the following table:
BILL_LAB_CAT