Number of cost items

My current project is around 7 years. I have tried to limit the number of CIs, but should probably have done more to limit them further.

I have never heard of a hard limit but, with the recent limitation for budget moves to 250 items, I somehow feel InEight never intended we should have too many CIs.

I have around 4500 items with 3500 terminals, and I'm struggling with performance.

What is your experience with number of CIs?

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samehtalat

Coming from client-side organization, we are not having that much of cost items.

I suggest splitting the items into two projects in InEight Control modules and you can still manage both together using the internal InEigh PowerBI Dashboard

Brittany.Dodson

We have not exceeded the hundreds. I agree on splitting it, depending on your ERP and contract/performance obligations wondering if you can accommodate it that way? Kudos to you guys though - Managing that many CI's is an achievement in itself!

Even with our # of CIs, we experience some performance issues which N8 product noted this at that time depending on your view you are using, that could also contribute to that.

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samehtalat

Coming from client-side organization, we are not having that much of cost items.

I suggest splitting the items into two projects in InEight Control modules and you can still manage both together using the internal InEigh PowerBI Dashboard

Tomas

Thank you for sharing :) I assume number in the hundreds then?

Brittany.Dodson

Even with our # of CIs, we experience some performance issues which N8 product noted this at that time depending on your view you are using, that could also contribute to that.

KevinPeters

I can definitely understand the performance issues and the CBS growing to that many cost items over 7 years. Great job managing that many CIs!

We have marine construction and dredging maintenance contracts that span multiple years and we have typically generated CIs by year so we can filter down to the current year and manage that specific set of CIs.

Tomas

Thanks for charing. an interesting move to have the CIs be created by time period. That’s what I do with AWPs. But for infrastructure I have to think about my completions so I tend to relate them towards objects or similar.