Weighting Factor (SAP Library - Task and Resource Management (LE-TRM))

Weighting Factor

Definition

A weighing factor is a value from 0 - 99 that reflects the relative importance of a lower-level (child) entity's priority in determining the priority of its higher-level (parent) entity.

Use

Using the Mode Maintenance tool from the TRM Monitor, you can assign weighting factors to the entities in the priority model. At both task creation and task selection, the system calculates the total priority of a parent entity by:

Converting child entity weighting factors into normalized weightings, being percentages that takes into account the weighting factors of all child entities directly under the one parent

Example You assign the following weighting factors to the route priority entities of task creation:

Priority Entity	Weighting Factor
Distance from source	24
Resource type – handling unit	17
Resource type – working area	39
Resource type - level	27
Total	107

These weighting factors are converted into the following normalized weightings:

Priority Entity	Normalized Weighting
Distance from source	24/107 = 22.4%
Resource type – handling unit	17/107 = 15.9%
Resource type – working area	39/107 = 36.5%
Resource type - level	27/107 = 25.2%
Total	100%

Multiplying each child entity’s priority value by the normalized weighting

Summing the results

Note

For more information on how the system calculates priorities, see Priority Calculation.