Distribution of Required Capacity over Periods

Use

You use this function to distribute the required capacity of a project role or project role staffing over a number of periods.

Integration

If Workforce Deployment (WFD) is active, the system receives information about the availability of resources from here. If WFD is not active, the availability is determined as follows:

●     From the resource availability or location (see Customizing for Collaboration Projects under Resource Management ® Business Partner ® Employee Overview).

●     From the Calendar or Hours per Day (see Customizing for Collaboration Projects under Resource Management ® Basic Settings for Project Roles ® Make General Settings for Distribution).

Prerequisites

●     You are editing a project role whose project role type supports distribution (see Customizing for Collaboration Projects under Resource Management ® Basic Settings for Project Roles ® Define Project Role Types).

●     You are on the Resources tab page in the General or Staffing view.

For staffing, the system only displays the Req. Capacity Distribution over Periods area in the General view if you selected a resource.

Features

General

If you use distribution for a project role, you can plan the required capacity for each individual period. In this case, you do not enter the total required capacity yourself; it is calculated by the system from the total of the individual required capacities you entered. The system displays the distribution of required capacity over periods. The required capacities must be within the validity period of the project role.

Once distributed values exist, fixed dates must also exist for the role or resource. If there are no fixed dates, the system sets them automatically.

You can enter a period type and a distribution unit for the distribution at project definition level. You do this on the Structure tab page in the Additional Data view. If you select a generic interval as the period type, you can plan the periods as you choose. There must not be any gaps between the periods and they must not overlap. You can check the intervals.

If you do not enter any data here, the information you entered in the Make General Settings for Distribution IMG activity in Customizing for Collaboration Projects applies.

Distribution Functions

You use distribution functions if you want to make the same changes to the required capacity in several different periods. You can use this function for the following types of changes:

●     Adding required capacity to the existing required capacities of a period

●     Subtracting required capacity from the existing required capacities of a period

●     Setting the required capacity as a new required capacity for a period

For more information, see Advanced Distribution.