Production Resource
Definition
The
production resource
corresponds to the
work center
or
work center capacity
in the classical routing. A
production resource
can be an individual machine, a production resource/tool, an employee or group of employees.
Use
The definition of a production resource in the
mode
for an activity is necessary for defining the duration of the activity and is the basis for the link to Product Cost Planning. You can enter another
production resource
as a
secondary resource
for the mode, such as a production resource/tool, or an important operating facility that also needs to be planned or procured.
Structure
The production resource is defined as an application in iPPE. There are three object types:
Operating Facility
You use this object type to represent machines, production resources/tools, and documents.
You use the operating facility type
material
for machines and production resources/tools. You can create material masters for this type of operating facility when you maintain production resources. You must do so if you have yet to procure the operating facility or use inventory management.You use the operating facility type
document
to create a production resource/tool in the form of a document and to link it to a document from the Document Management System, such as a 3-D drawing.Worker
You use this object type to represent the individual employees or groups of employees that are to do the work in the activity. If you use teams of 2, 3, or 4 workers, you can create a separate production resource for each team.
Planning Resource
You can use this node type to maintain the APO resource data
Resource Name
,Resource
Type
, andDimension
as well asCalendar
andTime Zone
(only in APO) for capacity requirements planning. You cannot use this node type for workers or operating facilities.
Integration
The iPPE resources
Workers
and
Operating Facilities
are used in shop-floor-orientated manufacturing. You must use the
planning resource
for scheduling and capacity requirements planning in shop-floor-orientated manufacturing and SNP. You can also use
operating facilities
for shop-floor-oriented manufacturing when these are not relevant for capacity requirements planning. Activity backflush is also supported for operating facilities.
You create
production resources
in the DI system and use the APO Core Interface to transfer them to the SAP APO system, together with the other iPPE data. The production resource is then created as a resource in the SAP APO system. You determine which type of resource is to be created in the SAP APO system when you create the production resource in the DI system. The following resource types are available:
Single-Activity
Single-Mix
The following are also available for shop-floor-oriented manufacturing:
Multi-Activity
Multi-Mix
Bucket
For detailed information about the SAP APO resources, refer to the SAP APO documentation.