Resource Drivers

This Model Table function is used to provide periodic resource drivers for the relevant resources and activities.

The function defines the following fields:

• Version: You use this field to differentiate multiple planning versions.

• Posting Date: You use this field to provide plan and forecast totals on a yearly, quarterly, monthly, or even daily basis to run the profitability and cost management process.

• Resource Source: You use this field to specify different values as in some system landscapes resource driver data is retrieved from multiple systems (for example, data warehouses or timesheet systems) or entered manually.

• Resource: The resource driver data is based on an explicit Resource field instead of the original source system fields (such as GL Account, Cost Center and Profit Center). This makes reassignments easier and allows you to abstract the data derived from general ledger systems and planning systems from the profitability model. The Assign Resources function enriches the original data using the Resource field. This means that even if new accounts are added or become obsolete in the underlying GL accounts, you only need to update the resource assignments data, and not the calculation model itself.

• Resource Driver: You use this field to specify the unit description of the resource, such as pieces, hours, and FTEs.

• Activity: You use this field to define the activity that uses the resource value as a variable portion to allocate the resources.

• Resource Value: This field contains the key figure used to allocate resources to activities and refers to the resource driver as a unit.