Compute Cobra Burden Costs

Use this screen to calculate burden costs for Cobra project, copy current year history into Cobra tables, and update the current period setting on the Configure Cobra Interface Settings screen.

Warning: If you have not upgraded to Cobra 8.4 and you apply Costpoint MR 7.1.25, 8.0.17, 8.1.3, or 8.2, you must upgrade to Cobra 8.4 in order to run the integration between Costpoint and Cobra using web services. If you do not upgrade to Cobra 8.4, you will need to manually transfer data from Costpoint using CSV files.

You can also use this screen to run the Cobra Extraction process, which will load actual costs from Costpoint to your Cobra system.

Cobra stores burdens such as overhead and G&A at a very low level — such as per control account, resource. This screen is similar in function to the Compute Burden Cost screen, which calculates burden at the project/organization/account. This process allocates burdens to the resource level for labor (GLC, employee, vendor, vendor employee, or PLC).

This screen creates the CB_SUM (Cobra Summary) and CB_BURD_SUM (Cobra Burden Summary) tables. They are similar in structure to the PROJ_SUM (Project Summary) and PROJ_BURD_SUM (Project Burden Summary) tables created by the Compute Burden Cost screen.

Burden will only be computed on projects that have been identified as Cobra projects. You can identify a project as a Cobra project by selecting the Cobra Project check box in the Manage Project User Flow screen.

This process copies the current year labor and non-labor amounts as well as the prior year labor and non-labor amounts into the CB_SUM and CB_BURD_SUM tables by fiscal year, period, and subperiod. You must manually enter the prior year data for existing Cobra projects in the Manage Prior Year Cobra Costs screen. You can select the Copy Prior Year History check box in this screen to copy the prior year data into the Cobra tables. You only have to do this the first time you compute the Cobra burden costs or if the data in the Manage Prior Year Cobra Costs screen changes.

This process also updates the Fiscal Year, Period, and Subperiod fields in the Current group box of the Configure Cobra Interface Settings screen with the fiscal year, period, and subperiod information entered in this screen. This is the method Cobra uses to determine the current period.

You must use the Compute Burden Cost screen before you can run the compute Cobra burden cost process. This screen uses the non-labor direct and indirect amounts in the PROJ_SUM and PROJ_BURD_SUM tables to copy data into the CB_SUM and CB_BURD_SUM tables. You must use this screen before you attempt to extract actual costs from Costpoint.

Note: For Costpoint 8.2, this application is not available if you are not licensed for Cobra integration or the configuration has not been enabled. For more information in setting up the integration, see Cobra Integration in Costpoint 8.2.