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<ManualTopic ID="/baanerp/ff/project/project_ff_pdm" xml:lang="it">
   <Header>
      <Title> Project Definition</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e372021">
         <Level1>Functions and features</Level1>
         <Level2>Definizione progetto</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e372027">
         <Level1>Definizione progetto</Level1>
         <Level2>functions and features</Level2>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <ConceptSection>
      <Paragraph>Use <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tp/pdm" role="module">Definizione progetto</GUIRef> to maintain project master data. This data is the
		comprehensive and base data that is used manage the project. Much of the master
		data is reusable from project to project, for example, labor rates, employee
		responsibilities, and trade groupings.</Paragraph>
   </ConceptSection>
   <GeneralSection>
      <List>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000307" role="manual" Update="No">Creating a project</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>Before you create a
			 project by using either a template or the Projects session, you must define the
			 parameters. Use the project data management session to create your
			 project.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>Project 360</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>In project-driven companies, regardless of the role, all
			 users access projects to complete their tasks. Typically, different users must
			 perform tasks in different phases of the project. For example, an estimator
			 will estimate a project, a sales engineer will prepare the quotation, the
			 project manager will perform project definition, and the design engineer will
			 set up the budget.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000003" role="manual" Update="No">Parameters and defaults</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>You can set up general default values and parameters that
			 define how <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tp" role="package">Progetti e commesse</GUIRef> works.
			 Where necessary, you can override these values when you are running a
			 project.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#SufferTax_tp" role="glossary" Update="No">Sufferance tax</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>A tax or levy that is payable to a local or municipal
			 authority to compensate for a disruption caused by a project. For example,
			 compensation for removing a sidewalk or part of a street to install the water
			 pipes or sewer while constructing a high-rise apartment building.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>Third party</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>A person or organization with an indirect or non-contractual
			 interest in a project, for example, a government body or regulatory
			 agency.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000008" role="manual" Update="No">Standard cost objects</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <List>
               <ListIntro>Maintain standard cost objects for these cost
				types:</ListIntro>
               <ListItem>
                  <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#Labor_tp" role="glossary" Update="No">Labor</Link>
               </ListItem>
               <ListItem>Materials</ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#000044" role="glossary" Update="No">Equipment</Link>
               </ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#000073" role="glossary" Update="No">Subcontracting</Link>
               </ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#SundryCosts_tp" role="glossary" Update="No">Sundry costs</Link>
               </ListItem>
            </List>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>Standard labor</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>Use labor codes to control the costs of a labor code or of a
			 group of labor codes. The labor rate determines what cost and sales rates are
			 used in budget lines and in hours registration.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>Standard sundry costs</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>Sundry cost objects can be standard or project-specific .
			 The cost object is related to a control code for cost-controlling
			 purposes.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>Standard cost object mapping with service</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>Cost object mapping is based on project activities only.
			 Materials must either be included in the project budget itself, and handled in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tp" role="package">Progetti e commesse</GUIRef>, or treated as part
			 of the reference activity, and then handled in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ts" role="package">Assistenza</GUIRef>.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>Buy-from business partner files</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>If a supplier can provide a file with item prices and
			 discounts, you can import this information. You can then define the
			 relationship between supplier codes and your own codes and the relationship
			 between items and the supplier discount groups.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000013" role="manual" Update="No">Revenue codes</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>Revenue codes are codes that you can use to categorize
			 amounts you invoice to your customer. As with cost objects, you can define both
			 standard and project-specific revenue codes.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>Standard structures</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>You can define a library of standard elements and
			 activities. You can copy these project structures or template
			 projects.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>Standard elements</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>You can maintain a library of standard elements that you can
			 copy when you maintain a project.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>User-defined structures</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>Various additional structures used in projects, either for
			 reporting purposes or for responsibility assignment and subsequent performance
			 measurement, are maintained in user-defined structures.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>Standard surcharges</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>You can define standard <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#Surcharges_tp" role="glossary">surcharges</Link>. Each line in this list refers to a unique
			 combination of company, cost type, sundry cost code, and sequence number.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>Standard overhead</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>You can define standard overhead costs. Each line in this
			 list refers to a unique combination of company, cost type, overhead cost code,
			 and sequence number.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000301" role="manual" Update="No">Currencies in project</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>If You can specify
			 the currency to use for a particular project. This currency can be different
			 from the currencies specified for your company or you must specify a currency
			 that is defined for your company.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000348" role="manual" Update="No">Defining surcharges</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>Surcharges are a means of defining indirect project costs.
			 Typically, surcharges are used to cover general overhead costs, such as
			 storage, handling, maintenance costs, and management overhead</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000019" role="manual" Update="No">Templates</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>Templates provide a user-friendly way to define a project.
			 Use a project template to predefine a set of project types for a
			 company.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
      </List>
   </GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>