Oracle P6 scheduling software
Manage projects of any scale with Primavera P6 EPPM.Primavera P6 EPPM is a powerful, easy-to-use solution to identify, plan, manage, and execute projects, programs, and portfolios worldwide.
Key product advantages
- Access and retrieve anytime, anywhere;
- Build an enterprise template library from best practices;
- Manage simple or complex projects with interactive bar charts
- Quickly and easily review project status
- Quickly access and manage project resources
- Schedule with critical path method—plan and execute projects with confidence
- One source of truth: centralized data storage
- Track progress in real time and save time with proven practices
- See variances clearly and schedule with confidence
- Resource (labor, materials, equipment) planning
- Resource load analysis and leveling across projects
- Control project budget and cost
- Quantity distribution and tracking
- Protect enterprise information
- Control access with security configuration
P6 includes 200+ PM reports and lets users design custom reports from live project data to deliver timely information to stakeholders.
P6 also offers predefined views so executives, managers, and field teams see schedule status clearly for better decisions.
P6 training videos:
Oracle Primavera P6 has a 40-year history
P6 embodies Oracle’s 40 years of construction PM experience—the de facto global standard. Larger projects and those with foreign participation commonly require Oracle P6.
Integrated network schedule
Sound schedule control starts with an integrated plan linking phases and work streams—activities tied by process or construction sequence in a logically sound schedule.
P6 decomposes the full design–procurement–construction prep–construction–commissioning–handover sequence into WBS, with construction WBS depth to seven levels, 90%+ activities within 7-day duration granularity, strict logic ties, CPM scheduling, auto-calculated start/finish, and auto-adjustment from predecessor actuals.
Detailed Level-4 monthly and special-purpose plans
I. During normal construction periods, every two weeks the progress control specialist prepares a detailed biweekly plan with daily tasks based on upcoming work in the master schedule, issues it to the engineering department, and confirms handover with subcontractors.
II. For critical construction milestones or crash schedules, schedule controllers prepare dedicated execution plans (crash plans) aligned with master schedule dates, with daily task assignments defined.
3. Subcontractors report daily task completion and quantities; engineering reviews, then schedule control specialists consolidate.
4. Schedule control specialists update daily completion, adjust upcoming work, and issue the next day’s plan—master schedule as backbone, short-interval control for fine-grained governance.
Horizontal and vertical tiered schedule management
Level 3 management:
Project leadership decision-making is Level 1 management;
Schedule control specialists provide Level 2 management;
Department execution is Level 3 management.
Level 4 schedule:
The Level 1 schedule defines the owner’s overall target milestones for the project.
Level-2 schedules refine Level-1 plans by locking major completion dates by discipline to guide Level-3 planning.
Level 3 schedules detail the overall project schedule below Level 2 and serve as the master basis for execution.
Level 4 monthly or special construction plans break daily work within the Level 3 window, rolling every two weeks with daily feedback.
Quantity tracking S-curve
Plan and track key quantities in P6 to guide labor, materials, and equipment on site and analyze percent complete dynamically.
Based on Level 4 monthly plans and special construction plans, load major quantities onto activities and enter theoretical completion quantities per activity so the project has daily planned quantities as guidance for construction organization. Each day, update actual quantities from subcontractor progress reported and approved at each level, and use the software to project future daily completion, forming a dynamic quantity-tracking S-curve.
Professional P6 services for diverse scenarios
P6 training
P6 training grounded in international schedule control—theory, hands-on practice, multi-industry cases, and bid support.
P6 implementation
Support establishment of project- and enterprise-level progress control systems, building dual process models for planning management and construction workflow.
P6 certification
A two-tier certification in schedule management and software skills to develop advanced planning and control talent.
P6 PPM and P6 EPPM learning resources
Learning videos
Expert-led online software tutorials that walk you through a real case study.
