Resources 

Definition

A resource comprises goods and services, which are supplied internally and externally, to produce business activities.

Use

You can use resources to carry out a detailed, quantity-based primary costs planning below the cost element level for cost centers, orders and WBS elements. Resource planning will replace detailed planning at a later date. The SAP R/3 System valuates the given resource consumption with a price, which you can store separately and period-dependent in a price file in the system.

You can not use resources in the actual.

Structure

You can choose from three resource types, which the system derives internally from the available data.

You can store the price directly in the price tables.

The system takes only the material price for valuation of the resource consumption.

The system valuates the resource consumption using the price of the costed base planning object.

The resource master record is structured as follows:

You can only enter individual values, not resource hierarchies.

 

Integration

Resources can have their own prices or they can take the price of a material or a base planning object.

If you specify a cost element in the master record, you can only plan under this cost element.