Quantity-Based Planning

You use this approach to create plans based on the output quantity in a scope of work.

Features

The following table lists the important fields in the workbook for quantity-based planning:

Field	Type	Description
Structure Element	Input	This refers to the structure element on which you want to plan. In addition, you must also link the output quantity to a statistical key figure (SKF).
Output Quantity	Input	Refers to the amount of work that you want to plan for. This is then stored in the selected SKF when you transfer plan data to a back-end ERP system.
Input Resource or Resource Type	Input	This refers to the resources or resource types required to accomplish the output quantity.
Input Productivity	Input	An indicative rate at which the corresponding resource or resource type is estimated to perform.
Input Quantity	Proposed by the system	For each resource, the system proposes a value after dividing the output quantity by the corresponding input productivity.
Input Cost Rate	Proposed by the system	For each resource, you can either manually enter a cost rate or use valuation to propose a rate based on the valuation strategy for the plan scenario.
Input Cost	Calculated	This is calculated by multiplying input quantity with input cost rate.
Output Cost	Calculated	This is the sum of all input costs.
Unit Price	Calculated	This is the price per unit for the scope of work. This value is displayed as a result of dividing output cost by output quantity.
Output Productivity	Calculated	This is the average productivity of all activity type resources for the scope of work. This value is displayed as a result of dividing output quantity by the total planned input quantity of resources that use an activity type.