Master Data (SCM-APO-MD)

A machine, person, facility, warehouse, means of transportation or other asset with a limited capacity that fulfills a particular function in the supply chain.

In SCM, the following resources can be modeled:

• Resources whose capacity is determined by working time data. The capacity of these resources is continuously available during working hours. There are single-activity resources, on which only one activity can be processed at any one time, and multi-activity resources, on which several activities can be processed simultaneously. Single-activity resources and multi-activity resources are used for scheduling in the SCM components Capable-to-Match (CTM) and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS), in which production dates of orders and operations are scheduled in seconds.
• Bucket resources, whose capacities are defined by quantities (for example, transport or warehouse capacities) or by daily rates (for example, production rates). Bucket resources are used for scheduling in Supply Network Planning (SNP). The most detailed scheduling that can be done is on a daily basis.