Powered by tech from AI startup OpenAI and built using the Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft’s service that provides enterprise-tailored access to OpenAI’s API, the new capabilities follow the rollout of OpenAI text-generating AI models in Power Platform four years ago and the more recent debut of generative AI capabilities in Viva Sales, Microsoft’s seller experience app. In an interview with TechCrunch, Charles Lamanna, CVP of business apps and platform at Microsoft, described the updates as the logical next step on Microsoft’s automation journey. They touch on both Power Platform, Microsoft’s set of low-code tools for building apps and workflows, and Dynamics 365, the company’s suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) tools. Role prices will need importing after organisational units, as they sit within the organisational unit form.Microsoft today introduced what it’s calling the “next generation” of AI product updates across its business apps portfolio.The screen shot below is of the project tracker, notice the view can be changed to see costs and sales value, this view will not show valuable information if the Role Prices are not populated.

if you added a HR Consultant to a WBS of which the project was using the ‘Contoso UK’ Contracting Unit and there was no role price for a HR Consultant associated with this organisational unit, the Estimated Cost for that task would not be calculated and nor would any amounts for Actuals.

If a role price is missing for a certain role, an estimate/actual will have no data to calculate these i.e.

Role prices define the Cost estimates and the Billed Sales actuals on a project.

Also, the currency for all the role prices will match the currency defined on the price list. Units cannot be changed as all the prices need to be expressed in terms of the units defined on the Cost Price List.

Role prices can be added through the Sub Grid on the organisational unit form.

For example, a Developer with the resourcing unit ‘UK’ may be billed out to a customer for £800 a day whereas a Developer with the resourcing unit ‘US’ may be billed out to a customer £900 a day, as seen below. The concept of a role price is to define the price of a type of resource per organizational unit (or resourcing unit.) Role prices are associated with both Cost and Sales Price Lists to define the cost or price of each role within each organisational unit.

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