Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

The EPS is the outsider's view of your company, showing your lines of business. The EPS is laid out in a tree structure. A construction company may have an EPS tree with only two nodes: development, for work on existing sites and construction, for new sites. Or an oil company may split their work first between Natural Gas and Heavy Oil. The structure may be broken down further. For example, Heavy Oil may be broken down into Primary, Cold EOR, and Thermal. The idea is that all projects under an EPS node share common characteristics and may be managed by the same team. The following is an example from ExxonMobil:

• Refinery Division

  • US Domestic Operations

    California

    • Torrance

    Louisiana

    • Baton Rouge

    New Jersey

    • Bayway

    • Clinton

    • Edison

    • Paulsburo

    Texas

    • Houston

    Virginia

    • Fairfax

• Chemical Division

  • US Domestic Operations

    Lousiana

    • Baton Rouge

    • Chalmette

    • Plaquemine

    Texas

    • Baytown… and so on

In P6 web, the EPS is administered through the Projects tab in the EPS screen. The default view shows projects...