Required Master Data

Function and Transactions

Human Resources (personnel resource, employee)

You can model personnel resources:

You specify the option that you want to use at client level in Customizing for SAP Multiresource Scheduling at  Basic Settings Configure Basic Settings .

You create business partners with the role Employee in transaction BP.

In SAP HR, employees are created in transaction PA30.

Availability data of human resources

In resource planning, data about the availability times of an employee is required.

Availability data is managed in SAP Multiresource Scheduling Basis.

If you model your personnel resources as business partners, you maintain availability in transaction /MRSS/WFM_ADMIN.

If you use SAP HR for your personnel resources, transfer the availability information to SAP Multiresource Scheduling Basis from report /MRSS/HCM_RPTWFMIF.

Qualification of human resources

Specific qualifications may be required to carry out some operations of an order. You can create qualifications as follows:

In each case, you enter the type and the degree of the qualification as well as the validity time of the qualification.

Organizational unit/work center

You can group employees in the HR organizational model. A typical example of a group are workshop resources.

Use transactions PPOCE and PPOME to process the organizational plan.

In the order, a work center is assigned to each operation. It is essential to assign these work centers to the relevant organizational unit. You assign the work centers in work center maintenance (transaction CR02) by choosing HR Assignment.

Resource planner

You assign a resource planner to the organization unit by choosing  Goto Assignment: Resource Planner (MRS) from the context menu.

To do so, call transaction PPOME.

This assignment is important if you use transaction /MRSS/PLBOTIME to call the Scheduler Workplace.

Tool as material

You create tools as material with material type Production Resource/Tool.

To do so, call transaction MM01.

For each tool, you can enter the relevance for resource planning. To determine whether the tool is relevant for resource planning, you assign a corresponding control key.

Tool as equipment

In resource planning, you plan tools that are equipment. The tool demand is defined in the order using the tool material (see above), which can be assigned to an operation as production resource and tools. To determine the tool or equipment in the resource planning board, the system requires the equipment material (the corresponding tool as material) and the organizational assignment (responsible work center). To create equipment, call transaction IE25.