Running the GRC Warnings—Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Required Data

Defining Inventory Parts

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize you with the data that must be in place before you can do the the exercises below.

  1. Define the projects items in the project product structure as inventory parts and specify which are project-specific and standard planned items.

General exercise for Defining Inventory Parts

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to run the GRC Warning Info before the gross requirements calculation (GRC) is performed.

Windows:
Project Product

Running the GRC Warning Info 

  1. Open the Project Product window, and query your project XXPD–01.
  2. Click the Demand tab and then the MPL tab.
  3. Right-click and then click Warnings to see whether the GRC returns any errors. The Warnings window appears, as does a message prompting you to indicate whether you want to continue.
  4. Click Yes. Warning information appears if the parts, especially the top project item, lack an activity connection.
  5. Click the Missing Procurement tab. Another message appears prompting you to indicate whether you want to continue.
  6. Click Yes. Warning information appears if one or more branches in the project product structure do not have parts set to Procurement.
  7. Click the Demand Not Allowed tab. Another message appears prompting you to indicate whether you want to continue.  
  8. Click Yes. Warning information appears if one or more project items in the project product structure are not allowed to have a demand, such as when the part or parts are obsolete.