Location 

Use

The system uses the information entered onto this tab as the starting location for the resource when computing distance to a demand through the use of geo-coding.

 

Integration

The start location can be an address maintained directly on the business partner itself or, for employees, an address maintained on the business partner’s organization.

 

Features

The resource planner application is able to schedule resources based on the distance from the resource’s starting location to the demand. A resource might not come into the office every day and start their assignments from the office location, but rather from their home, you can set the office to be the resource’s starting location.

 

Activities

Choose the address you want to use as the starting location for the resource, either the Organization Address or Individual Address.

Organization Address

This represents the address of the organization to which the business partner is assigned in organization management.

You must update the system with new geo-codes whenever the starting location address changes for a resource. For more information, see Locations and Geo-Codes.

When you select Organization Address to determine the location of the resource and the resource is assigned to multiple organizational units, the system must determine which address is relevant for scheduling. A work around to the situation is to create a new address usage type for the business partner and maintain this address usage for the organization address manually in the resource and use the Other Address option.

Individual Address

This allows the user to select any address maintained within the system for the resource. The address usage types are available in the drop down list.

You have the ability to maintain individual address usage types for the business partner. These individual addresses could be office locations that might not be the same as that in the organizational unit to which the resource is assigned. For example, the employee is assigned to the organizational unit in Palo Alto, CA, but the employee’s physical location is the office in Westchester, IL.

The resource’s start location is set up in the business partner to allow the resource planner application to determine which address should be used as the starting location of the resource. A resource might not come into the office everyday and start their assignments from the office location; they might start their assignments directly from their home. However, you must direct the resource planner application to the correct address. If you select Organization Address as the starting location, you must ensure that the address is sent to the WFD Server to update the geo-codes