Resources are part of the APO Master Data. Resources allow you to define

• Capacities of equipment, machines, personnel, means of transport, warehouses

• Resource-specific planning parameters for Supply Network Planning, Capable-To-Match Planning (CTM) and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS).

Resource data is relevant for planning order dates while taking working time and the capacity of the resources into account

You use Bucket Resources for short-term and medium-term planning in Supply Network Planning that is based on periods. The most precise planning possible uses days as planning periods.

You can define the capacity of a bucket resource as a:

• Quantity (without reference to a period of time)

For example, you can use a quantity to define the transport capacity of a truck or the capacity of a warehouse.

• Rate (quantity per period)

You use a rate to describe the consumption or production capacity of a resource, for instance the quantity that is consumed or produced by a resource in a workday.

Scheduling in PP/DS determines the exact production dates of orders and operations. In PP/DS you use either Single-Activity Resources or Multi-Activity Resources, which you can schedule with an accuracy of a second. Only one activity can be carried out at a time on a single-activity resource. Several activities can be carried out at the same time on a multi-activity resource.

The mixed resource combines the bucket resource and the single activity or multi-activity resource. The mixed resource can be used in all planning areas. The single activity resource for detailed scheduling corresponds to the single-mixed resource, the multi-activity resource of the multi-mixed resource.

Both bucket resources and single or multi-activity resources that can be accurately planned can be used in CTM.

You use resources in the Production Process Models (PPM). A PPM is a combination of a BOM and a routing for a product. Specify the resources that are required for carrying out each of the activities in the PPM. You can also define the alternative resources here. The system uses the resource data to schedule the activities or the PPM.

Create a resource that is independent of a particular supply chain model or planning version. All resources that are relevant to planning should be assigned to a supply chain model using the Supply Chain Engineer.

When you are creating a planning version for a supply chain model, the system creates a copy specific to the planning version for each resource that you have assigned to the model. Both the original and the copy of the resource can be edited (change planning data, delete a resource).

When you change an original or a copy, this affects only the original or the copy, but not both.

You can copy work centers from the R/3 System. The capacities of the work centers in R/3 are mapped to resources in the APO system. Note that only the capacity header is transferred; capacity intervals and shifts are ignored.

When it is transferred for the first time, the resource is also assigned to the model 000 in the APO system. With every successive transfer, only the module-independent resource is changed. The planning-relevant data in the planning version-specific resources must always be maintained in the APO system, since the resources are only transferred so that they can be linked to other data (PPM, orders) transferred from the OLTP system.