Creating a material resource

Material resources represent tangible items consumed by a project, like packing…boxes or cases of cider for the new office open house.…Material resources don't have a time component like work resources so you fill-in a few less fields.…To create a material resource, go to the Resource Sheet.…On the View tab, just click Resource Sheet.…Then go to the first blank Resource Name cell and type-in the name of the resource, in this case Cider.…Then when I click the next cell, the Type cell, Project automatically fills…in Work, but we want a material resource, so click the down arrow and then choose Material.…

You see a few fields go away.…Well, you can still fill-in the Initials field, Project puts in the first letter, but that's not that helpful.…So we'll type-in the full name because Cider is fairly short.…You will notice that Maximum units, Overtime Rate, Base Calendar don't have any…values and that's because the Material Resource doesn't have a time component.…But Project does fill-in the Standard Rate field with 0.…