Resource (SAP Library - Resource (PP-PI-MD))

Resource

Definition

Resources are production facilities and persons involved in a production process that have capacities. They are subdivided into categories to specify their suitability for certain purposes or their use in certain processes.

Resources can be, for example:

Persons involved in production that are also recorded as employees in personnel administration

Parts of the plant that are used for production (processing units)

Parts of the plant that are used for intermediate storage (storage resources)

Parts of the plant that are used for both intermediate storage and production (storage resources / processing units)

Use

You assign resources to operations and phases in the master recipe and in process orders to specify with whom or at which parts of the plant a process step is carried out. Depending on the resource category, you can assign resources as follows:

Resources used for production are assigned as the

Primary resource for the operation (if the resource is occupied for the entire duration of the operation)

Secondary resource for operations and phases (if the resource is required in addition to the primary resource for a certain period of time)

Resources that are only used for storage are assigned a storage location at which the stocks are managed.

You can assign a storage location for:

Header material that is stored
Material components that are withdrawn from storage (in the case of ingredients) or placed into storage (in the case of by-products or co-products)

The data in the resource are used, for example, for:

Scheduling

Operating times and formulas for calculating the operation duration are maintained in the resource.

Costing

Formulas for calculating the operation costs are maintained in the resource. In addition, a resource is assigned to a cost center.

Capacity Requirements Planning

Formulas for calculating capacity requirements for an operation are maintained in resources.

Simplification of Operation Maintenance

Various default values are maintained for the operation in the resource.

Structure

The data to be processed is functionally subdivided in the following way:

Basic data

The standard value key is part of the basic data. Standard values are used as parameters in formulas for determining the execution time, capacity requirements, and costs.

Default values (for example, for the control key, the wage type, or the wage group)
Capacity data (for example, the capacity type and the available capacity)
Scheduling data (for calculating the execution time)
Cost center assignment
Link to the personnel administration system (for labor resources)
Hierarchy relationships
Network relationships

The following graphic illustrates the structure of the resource data:

Integration

A resource is created for one plant.

Resources can be assigned to resource hierarchies and resource networks or to resource classes.

Resource hierarchies serve to aggregate available capacity or capacity requirements at a resource.

When you assign resources to a resource network, you determine the sequence in which the resources are used in the master recipe or in the process order.

You can classify resources to specify for which purposes they are suited and how they should be used in certain operations.