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CP-97:Paving the Road: How AECOM is Using Costpoint to Track and Bill Equipment
James D. Mitchell, AECOM Management Services
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Agenda
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• Background
• Approach
• Testing
• The Process
• Go Live & Lessons Learned
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Background
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Business Need – Background
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• Project was put together to move contracts from an Oracle ERP to Deltek
Costpoint
• Management Services was chosen as an effort to work towards a goal of a
standardized delivery of systems (T&E, Costpoint and Cognos)
− Benefit: Savings by standardizing the management of service contracts
− Benefit: Long-term efficiencies
− Benefit: Consolidated systems and support staff
• MS Costpoint houses mostly Government contracts, while the Oracle contracts
were Commercial
• Business line and concepts were fairly new to MS
• Multiple Oracle migrations into Costpoint
− Proven to be efficient and successful
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Business Need – Equipment Management
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• One particular process was identified as a requirement for the migration as it was
critical to the how the organization managed the contracts
• A requirement to track equipment and it’s usage came up as part of various team
meetings
• As various parts of the process were discussed, it was not initially understood
− “Sounds like a service center”
− “Part of an Overhead”
− “Why are we billing ourselves”
• Management of equipment and its usage was new
• Current process was very manual
− Paper were being passed around
− Manually keyed and adjusted into system
− Data was keyed multiple times
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Business Need – Equipment Requirements
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• The main goal was to track equipment from purchase through allocation to the
client projects then billing to the customer
• Requirements were:
− Capture equipment usage through time entry using various units of measure
− Reimburse personal equipment usage to the employee
− Record costs associated with each piece of equipment
− Charge a Service Bill Rate (SBR) to the client project as costs (ex. $6.30)
− Identify equipment as company owned, leased, rented or personal
− Flexible enough to change bill rate based on UOM to provide lowest total
amount to customer (ex. 4 days vs. 1 week)
− Tax Personal equipment reimbursement as necessary
− Analyze over/under for each piece of equipment
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Business Need – Help Wanted
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• Resources were needed to help ensure that we gathered all of the requirements
and to work with the team defining a process
− Tony Bowser joined the team as a consultant to help define and automate this
process as much as possible using the tools available to us
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Approach
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Approach – Service Centers
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• Multiple discussions lead to using Costpoint to do the natural allocation of costs
that were being collected
• Service Centers provided a good foundation on collecting the costs associated to
each piece of equipment then allocating it out to the direct projects
• Service Centers also allowed us to dictate what to allocate, how and where
− Change in practice – Full allocation of costs vs Service Bill Rate
• One part of the business agreed on using the SC allocation methodology
− Each piece of equipment would require an individual SC
− It would have resulted into over 1,000 SCs
• Question asked: Could we group them? Response: No
− Would not be able to do the proper analysis
• Required too many Service Centers, not a viable option
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Approach – Projects
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• Projects were needed to capture the equipment usage, associated costs, allocate
to client project and bill to the customer
− Very summarized by overall locations that owned the equipment
• Only option is to break down the Projects further for each individual piece of
equipment that needed to be tracked and managed
• Tag number identified as part of the Project structure
• Standard Indirect structure did not fit the needs to identify and track the
equipment
• Management didn’t originally approve of the change to the Indirect structure & org
requirements
− Too much reporting based on the current structure and rules
• After more detailed discussions, Management finally agreed to minimal changes
• Process needed to be defined
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Approach – Payroll and Costing Information
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• Where and how do we capture payroll and costing information for the equipment
• Equipment were tagged and managed through Item Goods in Product Definition
• Repurpose unused fields to record Pay and Cost information
− Manage Goods Costs subtask was the answer
• Ability to identify different units of measure for pay and costing
− Ability to split taxable vs non-taxable for payroll
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Approach – Payroll and Costing Information
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• Repurposed fields were “standardized” for reporting
− Total Unit Costs – Hourly rates
− This-Level Unit Costs – Daily rates
− Labor fields – Non-Taxable Payroll
− Labor Burden fields – Taxable Payroll
− Misc fields – Cost Allocation to Direct Projects
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Approach – Capturing Usage
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• Unknown how to capture usage of the equipment
• Project Labor Categories were discussed
− Limited characters
− Different structure compared to the Tag Number
− Viewed as labor rather than usage
• Current functionality within Time Collection could capture the Tag Number – UDT
• Ability to record transactions linked to a daily timesheet
• Could be managed in a central location
• Allowed reporting to be used for downstream activities
− Payroll
− Costing
− Billing
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Approach – Process Flow
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Approach – Process Flow
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Approach – Process Flow
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Testing
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Testing
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• Needed to gather all of the “active” equipment,
which were not centralized
• Standardize the tagging system while staying
similar to the current
• User Defined Fields were created to track/link
information
− Link Item Good to Asset ID, if applicable
− Assign Over/Under Project tracking the equipment
costs
• Finalize the CLIN Units setup with different rates for
a single piece of equipment and link them to
individual Projects
• Crosswalks created to map old IDs to new IDs
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Testing
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• Pulling a form together identifying all of the information needed to setup Item
• Struggled to get the system ready for testing (not related to the process)
• Running through small batches to better define the process
• Ensured reporting capabilities worked as intended and could support the process
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The Process
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The Process
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• Overall process required 3 main components that needed to be set up
− Product Definition (Item Goods)
− Time Collection
− Billing
• As a 4th component, Fixed Assets was only required during certain situations but
was not required to process equipment usage through the system
• From the point the piece of equipment was brought in, a number of steps, forms
and departments were required to fully set up the equipment transactions
• Process started with identifying the piece of equipment for use on a project
− Company Owned
− Lease/Rental
− Personal
• Three Cognos Reports were created to support the processing
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The Process – Step 1: Initial Setup (Personal Equipment)
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• Employees are allowed to use selected personal equipment on the job if approved
• Agreements are drawn up with the employee defining the rate of pay for the use of
each personal equipment
• These amounts must be included on the Equipment Usage Form as part of the
Equipment setup in Product Definition
Project Terms & Conditions
Per Diem
Frequency
Amount $
Housing
Transportation
Rig Pay (only applicable to welders) $21/hr
Truck Pay $70/day with fuel card
Weld Skills Assessment
Weld Skills Assessment Location
(Location to include physical address: District
Office or Client Site or Other Training site)
Weld Skills Assessment Requirements
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The Process – Step 1: Initial Setup
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• Specific Forms are required for the initial
requests to set up the Equipment
• Equipment Usage Form* submitted to
Equipment Manager
− Identifies the Equipment and charging
elements
• Fixed Asset form submitted to Fixed Asset
Manager, as appropriate
• Indirect Project Setup form submitted to
Accounting
− Over/Under Project setup to capture the
costs associated with the equipment
* Form is still being modified
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The Process – Step 1: Product Definition Goods
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Example: AECOM Owned Equipment
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The Process – Step 1: Product Definition Goods
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Example: Personal Equipment
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The Process – Step 2: Usage & Billing Setup
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• Forms forwarded for Time and Billing set up
• Completed Equipment Usage Form forwarded to the Labor team
− Usage could not be recorded until the Item was set up in Time Collection
− Item manually added to the UDT table (centrally controlled)
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The Process – Step 2: Usage & Billing Setup
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• Equipment Usage From and applicable rate schedule is sent to the Billing team
− Notifies the team that a new piece of equipment needed to be set up as a
Billable Item then added to CLIN Units Usage
− While the Equipment Usage Form identifies the item, the rate schedule
identifies the unit of measure and rate at which the equipment can be billed out
− If the equipment requires multiple units of measure, additional CLINs are set up
to accommodate the different rates for the individual item
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The Process – Step 3: Recording Equipment Usage
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• Employees record equipment usage on their timesheet
• Separate field for each Equipment (UDT/Item ID) used on every TS row
• Pay Type was used to specify unit of measure (ex. EQH, EQD, EQP, etc.)
• For Personal (EQP) Equipment, two records were required
− Record the use of personal equipment (EQP) for payroll (ex. 1 day) charged to the
Over/Under Project
− Record actual usage time of equipment (EQH) for costing/billing (ex. 8 hours) charged to
the Direct Project
• Equipment information is not passed on to Costpoint however the usage information was in
addition to the standard “labor” data
− An Amount is not applied when Equipment TS rows are imported into Costpoint
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The Process – Step 4: Employee Payment
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• For Personal Equipment that is being used on the job, the Employee is
reimbursed based on an agreed amount made with the Project
• An additional step is required once the usage transaction is imported into
Costpoint
• Using Cognos, a report was developed to capture the necessary information from
Time Collection and Product Definition
• The report created a Labor preprocessor file to be loaded into Costpoint Labor
− Time Collection populated the Equipment, Unit of Measure and Dates
− Product Definition populated the agreed upon Payroll amounts for each
personal equipment
− When applicable, the report would take the payroll amounts and create two
records, one as taxable and another as non-taxable along with their appropriate
Pay Types
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The Process – Step 5: Equipment Costing
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• Two types of costs
− Depreciation, maintenance, repairs or other costs associated to the equipment
charged to the Over/Under Project
− Costs applied to the Direct Projects for the use of the equipment
• Costs associated to the equipment are charged to the Over/Under Project through
“natural” methods (ex. FA, APV, LD, etc.)
• Costs due to the usage of the equipment are charged to the Direct Project via an
Adjusting Journal Entry using a Cognos report pulling information from Time
Collection and Product Definition
• The report created an AJE preprocessor file to be loaded as a Journal Entry
− Time Collection populated the Equipment, Project, Unit of Measure and Dates
− Product Definition populated the cost amounts associated to the Equipment
− Over/Under Project that the Equipment was assigned to (Credit entry)
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The Process – Step 6: Equipment Billing
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• Usage has been recorded on the TS and the costs applied to the usage has been
charged to the Direct Project using an Unallowable Account in the PAG
• Using Cognos, a report was developed to capture the necessary information from
Time Collection
• The report created an Units preprocessor file to be loaded as a Units Usage Entry
− Time Collection populated the Equipment, Project, UOM (Pay Type), Dates and
miscellaneous Employee Information (ID & Name)
− Using the data gathered from TC, the report positioned and translated the
information to be read in the Units Import
− CLIN was defined by the UOM (ex. EQH – Hours, EQD – Days, etc.)
• In some cases, the data would need to be adjusted based on the contract needs
before it was loaded into Costpoint
• The final import file would be loaded and processed through to the Invoice
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Go Live & Lessons Learned
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Go Live – Communication & Training
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• Full process was still being defined and tested
• Employees/Timesheet Coordinators needed to understand how to enter the
information into Time Collection
• Labor Team needed to know what to look for and how to correct, if necessary
− Personal Equipment reimbursement
− Process to get the data entered or corrected
• Accounting Team needed to understand what to look for and an appropriate
amount for the AJE
− Identify if all usage was captured in the report
− Personal Equipment was reimbursed but identify if both lines were entered
• Billing team needed to reconcile what was being charged on the Timesheet to
what was being billed
• Communication and Training was required multiple times and to the larger group
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Lessons Learned
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• The original process was very manual and required many hours to complete
• It did not allow for a “clean” method of analysis or tracking
• In some cases, the over/under process wasn’t working and the information got
lost requiring an incredible amount of work to “unwind” it
• The new process allowed the equipment to be tracked and managed better
• Allowed the appropriate analysis to be done to better understand the true value of
the equipment being used
− Lease/Rent vs. Buy
− Personal vs. Lease/Rent
• Better communication and training
− Basic understanding of entry point by Employee/Timesheet Coordinator
− Full understanding of the process was very limited to a small group
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Lessons Learned
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• Full process was still being defined and tested after phase 1 go live
• Responsibilities were not fully defined
• Identifying the best communication paths to ensure full coordination between
teams (ex. Procurement, Fixed Assets, Equipment, Accounting, Projects, etc.)
• How do we not get “lost” or lose a step in the process
• Reconciliation to ensure information (cost/billing) isn’t being duplicated or missed
• Involving all of the right people at the right times
• Dedicated time to map and test the process fully with the larger team
− Understand what worked and what didn’t
− Define the training needs better
− Communicate based on audience
• Using Extensibility in Production Definition for the Pay/Cost Amounts
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Contact Information
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James D. Mitchell
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