Resources 

Purpose

Use this component to plan the resources required for the work that is carried out internally in a project. That is work that is not procured externally via purchasing.

You specify the work and the work center where this work is to be carried out in the internally processed network activity. During scheduling the system determines the capacity requirements for the project.

You offset these capacity requirements against the available capacities of the work centers involved. For optimal capacity utilization, use Capacity Leveling.

In projects the most important resource is the project staff. Workforce Planning enables you to distribute work from network activities to people, positions, and HR organization units according to periods.

The system can determine the available capacity from the work center or the HR shift schedule.

During project execution the capacity requirements are reduced by confirmations.

Integration

If you use workforce planning and the Time Sheet (CATS), you can specify in Customizing for the time sheet that the system uses the work distributed to people in workforce planning as default values for entering values in the time sheet.

For detailed information about Capacity Planning functions, refer to the Capacity Planning (PP-CRP) component.

For information about Work Centers and the data that you have to maintain there for capacity planning, refer to the Work Centers (PP-BD-WKC) component.