Resources 

Definition

A resource comprises goods and services, which are supplied internally and externally, to produce business activities.

Use

You can use resources to carry out a detailed, quantity-based primary costs planning below the cost element level for cost centers, orders and WBS elements. Resource planning will replace detailed planning at a later date. The SAP system valuates the given resource consumption with a price, which you can store separately and period-dependent in a price file in the system.

You can not use resources in the actual.

Structure

You can choose from three resource types, which the system derives internally from the available data.

·        The resource is only known within Overhead Cost Controlling (type R)

You can store the price directly in the price tables.

·        The resource refers to a material (type M).

The system takes only the material price for valuation of the resource consumption.

·        The resource refers to a base planning object (see: Reference and Simulation Costing) (type B).

The system valuates the resource consumption using the price of the costed base planning object.

The resource master record is structured as follows:

·        Resource key

·        Validity period of the resource

·        Resource units

·        Cost element

·        Resource name

·        Plant

·        Material

·        Base object costing

·        Purchasing organization

·        Resource type (derived internally)

·        Entered by (derived internally)

·        Entry date (derived internally)

You can only enter individual values, not resource hierarchies.

 

Integration

Resources can have their own prices or they can take the price of a material or a base planning object.

If you specify a cost element in the master record, you can only plan under this cost element.