To track the utilization of employees in Oracle Projects, the employees must first exist as defined workers within the system. The Oracle Workforce module, part of Human Capital Management (HCM), is where employee records, assignments, and other essential data are created and maintained. This foundational employee data is a prerequisite for defining them as project enterprise labor resources. Without enabling the Workforce module and setting up employees, the Projects module has no resource data to track for utilization, time, or costing purposes.

A. Projects module before Financials module: While Financials is critical for project costing and billing, the core requirement for tracking employee utilization is the existence of employee records, which originate from the Workforce module.

B. Financials module before Projects module: This sequence is common for financial projects, but for tracking employee-specific utilization, the employee data from the Workforce module is the primary prerequisite, not the financial structures.

D. Projects module before Workforce module: This is logically incorrect. You cannot track or manage employees within the Projects module if they have not been created and defined in the Workforce module first.

1. Oracle Fusion Applications Help

Implementing Project Financial Management

Chapter: Set Up Project Resources

Section: Project Enterprise Labor Resources.

The documentation states: "To be a project enterprise labor resource

a person must be an employee or a contingent worker with an active assignment in Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management." This explicitly establishes that HCM (Workforce) setup is a prerequisite for using employees as resources in Projects.

2. Oracle Fusion Applications Help

Using Project Costing

Chapter: Labor Costs

Section: How Labor Costs Are Processed.

This section details that labor cost processing relies on employee assignments and attributes managed in Oracle Fusion HCM. It explains that "The process derives the human resource assignment for the employee from Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management." This confirms the dependency of Project Costing on HCM data.

3. Oracle Fusion Applications Help

Implementing Global Human Resources

Chapter: Workforce Structures

Section: Manage Jobs.

This guide outlines the foundational steps for setting up workforce structures

including jobs and positions. These structures are then used to create employee records

which are subsequently consumed by other modules like Project Management to define resources. The entire chapter demonstrates that workforce setup is a foundational activity.