Explosion of Inputs
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The explosion of inputs is a calculation that allows us to know the total quantities and amounts
(Quantity * Unit Cost) of participation of each input in a budget. In other words, it calculates the
total quantities of each input in the entire work, which, when multiplied by its unit cost, gives the
total amount and its percentage of incidence.
The analysis of the explosion of inputs is obtained from a series of arithmetic operations,
multiplications and additions, where certain rounding criteria are applied to achieve the sums of
quantities and amounts.
An input explosion is the process through which it is possible to know the total amount that will be
used of each budgeted resource.
The explosion of supplies brings together totals of the materials to be acquired, including freight
and other costs. A schedule is also made to know when each thing should arrive at the work site;
for example, doors and finishing materials are the last thing.
What is the input explosion for?
The main idea of the input explosion is to obtain a relative percentage that represents the total
volume of each input of the Direct or Total cost of the budget.
In the long term, it can offer several additional advantages, such as, if it is possible to issue reports
where it is possible to separate the intervention by budget chapters, it can be useful to know once
on site how much material to order by budget items or subchapters that generally represent the
same evolution of the work, such as, for example, how much cement we should order for the
foundation, how much steel to order for the structure. This allows us to help have better control
of the work once it is in progress.
How do we calculate the input explosion?
Let's look at the following example:
We have the lime hydra input of the Layout and leveling concept.
Contains the following breakdown:
We can see that the amount of hydra lime is 0.00004.
Carrying out the explosion of inputs in OPUS PLANET of this concept, we observe that of the
calhydra resource we have a total exploited of 0.00252
If we perform the normal arithmetic process, to obtain the exploited quantity, we would multiply
the quantity of the input in the breakdown (.00004) by the total quantity of the concept (65.05) as
shown:
(.00004)(65.05)=0.0026
What is the reason that the calculation in OPUS PLANET is different and shows a value of 0.00252
in the generated input explosion?
As we documented in the first section of this section, in OPUS 2010 the calculation method is
carried out using the operation “input quantity” by “Concept quantity” by “Unit Cost” and the loss
of decimals is significant, depending on the configuration of the handling of decimals in the fields.
In our example the “Partial amount of the input” is = $ 2.60
And “Unit cost” is =$1030.00
Substituting values in the formula we have the following:
This calculation method operates by adding the values of the amounts, which have already passed
a rounding criterion, and is divided by a value that is a constant, such as the unit cost. In this way,
we guarantee that the values are extracted from the budget, therefore, the variations in amounts
are minimized.