Product tour—Oracle Primavera Cloud task management capabilities

Planning and scheduling—The disconnected status quo

The typical disconnected architecture of contract and field scheduling.

Planning and scheduling—The connected, current, and future

A fully connected and unified architecture to support contract and field scheduling.

Master planning and scheduling

Capabilities:

• Schedulers can manage the master plan or CPM contract schedule in the schedule module (this can also be done in Primavera P6).
• Schedulers can use the activities page to create, schedule, and monitor the activities required to complete the project’s deliverables.
• The task detail window shows field tasks that are assigned to the contract.

Benefits:

A united office and field schedule synchronizes the field and office. The master contract schedule identifies the major events, milestones, and activities that are targeted and their timing.

Pull planning

Capabilities:

• Create/manage handoffs
• Display network diagram
• Display swim lane’s
• Group and filter
• No timeline

Benefits:

Execute a specific phase of a project using a pull technique to determine handoffs. Eliminate miscommunication, improve collaboration, and increase efficiency by creating a smooth workflow.

Make-ready planning—look aheads

Capabilities:

• Configurable look-ahead period
• Overlay CPM contract activities
• Leverage tasks from the handoffs page
• Ability to quickly filter tasks impacted by constraints

Benefits:

This six-week look-ahead plan helps the team stay on track by identifying and removing constraints in advance.

Make-ready planning—constraint management

Capabilities:

• Configurable constraints register
• Ability to link constraints to tasks
• Ability to link to Oracle Aconex work packages

Benefits:

Make sure the upcoming work is in a condition so that it can be done by identifying and removing any potential problems before the work starts.

Weekly work planning—simple and digital

Capabilities:

• View workflow/task sequence
• One-click commit
• Print weekly work plan
  • Work plan page

Benefits:

Companies/teams confirm the sequence, duration, and handoffs of tasks are correct and then commit (shake hands and lock in) when tasks should occur.

Weekly work planning—giving you more

Capabilities:

• View workflow/task sequence in a Gantt chart
• One-click commit
• Print weekly work plan
• Task list page

Benefits:

In addition to the work plan page, the task list page provides your with additional task details, such as handoffs and constraints, at your fingertips.

Daily huddle—field coordination

Capabilities:

• View the daily plan
• One-click complete
• Recommit to a new finish date
• Enter reason codes

Benefits

Daily huddles are 15-minute coordination meetings for the team to review the daily plan, mark tasks as complete, or recommit tasks to new finish dates.

Daily huddle—field coordination

The daily work plan can be easily printed for distribution.

Daily huddle—learning and feedback

Capabilities:

• Review PPC
• Review reasons for missed commitments

Benefits:

The last planners learn from their performance by reviewing the PPC to learn how well the field planning process is working.

Oracle Primavera Cloud mobile app—Fast, efficient, easy

During the project planning process, superintendents, subcontractors, tradespeople, and other project stakeholders work together to create a work plan. It includes all the activities and tasks required to complete the project, shows how they are related, and when they should start and end.

On the work plan screen, tasks can be organized by swim lanes or activity bands. Users have visibility into the weekly work plan and can simply tap on their assigned task to view additional information and act on the task.

Standardized weekly work plan reporting on mobile

Capabilities:

• Standard weekly work plan report on mobile
• Rapid overall project/team visibility

Benefits:

The Oracle Primavera Cloud mobile app enables you to monitor the health and performance of your projects, update field schedule tasks and contract schedule activities, and collaborate with peers from the jobsite to the office and anywhere in between.

See all projects together with configurable dashboards

Capabilities:

• Create, manage, and view custom dashboards
• Project, workspace, and portfolio-level insights and roll-ups
• Customize dashboards by audience, role, and location

Benefits:

Oracle Primavera Cloud dashboards enable users of all levels to experience powerful visualizations of project, program, workspace, or portfolio-level data. Gain insights into field tasks whenever and wherever you are.