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Resource Planning

In this section, you make the settings for price calculation of resource prices in resource planning.

Where only the quantities of used resources are known, resource planning enables you to plan primary activity-independent and activity-dependent costs. The SAP R/3 System multiplies the planned quantity by the resource price

Price calculation is based on the conditions method and enables you to control access to resource prices in line with your requirements. To do so, you can specify your own criteria for price calculation.

Price calculation depends on the following settings:

For more information on resource planning, see the SAP Library under Financials -> CO Controlling -> Cost Center Accounting -> Cost Center Planning -> Manual Planning -> Primary Cost Planning -> Resource Planning.

Notes re Transport

You can import the settings for resource planning from client 00 into your operating client. A separate function is available in Generan Controlling Customizing under Production Start-Up Preparation -> Transport System Settings -> Transport Settings for Planning -> Import Standard Settings for Resource Planning .

The term resources describes an internal CO concept. The term "resource planning" as used here refers to the quantity-supported detailing of primary cost element planning in the WBS element.