Is there any documentation around best practice for non labor costs?

There are a few different types of cost that I would like to add to a project so as to tie out total busget and costs:

1. Software License costs
2. Professional Services contracted for via Purchase Order
3. Hardware acquisition costs

Should I just create different material resource types for these?

Thanks,

 -dave

 Are you looking at tracking them in some other way than what is offered with the Expense application, or a modified Expense application to suit your need?  You can log your entries within that app for those associated costs and then roll that information up into project fields via the custom "Aggregate" field.

 What specific information would you track about those costs?

Material resources are more of things that you would allocate to a task but you don't really get cost info from them.  I don't think they'd work quite like you want.  Give us more info, I am sure you can create your own app or use the Expenses app.

Thanks for the reply Steve.

The expense application is not currently set up as a standard Dynamic Application for our projects (I didn't know it existed until you mentioned it by name).  I have downloaded the app and will experiment with customizing it a bit to see if will give me what we need.

-dave

 Double check in the Admin zone and see if the Expense application is already in the system (Daptiv includes 3 generic DA's (Dynamic Applications) with our product:  Expenses, Change, Risk.  If it's already in the system, then you don't want it in there twice just to prevent confusion.

DAs can exist as Enterprise wide (in the Admin zone, check Applications) or at the project level as single instances.  It is better to have them Enterprise wide for reporting needs.  Take a look at it, if you need some direction or assistance post up and I'll walk you through it.