Difference Between EPS and OBS in Primavera P6

EPS

•      EPS stands for Enterprise Project Structure 

•     Hierarchical structure that identifies the company-wide project and enables organizing and management of those projects

•     EPS are hierarchical nodes where We can create and store projects

•        Imagine EPS represent as a Folder and Projects represent as Files in a Windows File system. Each Folder may contain multiple files. Similarly, Each EPS may contain multiple projects

•       How to Create an EPS

•      Click on Enterprise > Select (Enterprise project Structure ) EPS

OBS

•    stands for Organization Breakdown Structure
•     OBS is Hierarchical way to represent Responsible Manager
•     The OBS can be associated with an EPS or Project
•     The associated OBS is responsible for the corresponding EPS or Project
•     We can add users under the OBS, so those users only have access to the EPS and Projects
•     We can Restrict the OBS access (Read/Write/Delete) to an EPS and Project by associating a Project Profile with an OBS
•     By default, any project that we added will have the same OBS what the parent EPS has. We can change it later.
•     OBS and Responsible Manager are same object, just different naming convention to understand
•     How to create an OBS
•     Click on Enterprise > select (Organization Breakdown Structure) OBS