Generating resources

When the Resources by Site concept is active, the use of resources for planning is changed. The old resources functionality, which was fully based on work centers and work-center capacity, is still available.

The new Resources functionality uses various types of resources and resource capacities.

The table shows the available types of resources, the data from which the resource types are created, and the data from which the resource capacities are created:

Resource type Resource created from Resource capacity created from
Work center Work Centers (tirou0101m000)
Work Cell Work Cells (tirpt0140m000)
Work Cell Machine Work Cells (tirpt0140m000)
Machine Capacity Group Machine Capacity Groups (tirou4161m000)
Operation Capacity Subcontractors by Site (tisub0130m000) Operation Subcontractors List (tisub2100m000)
Production Capacity Subcontractors by Site (tisub0130m000) Product Subcontractors List (tisub1100m000)
Supplying Cluster Supplying Relationships (cprpd7131m000)
Supplier Items - Purchase Business Partner by Site (tdipu0190m000)

In the preparation stage, the Generate Resources (cprpd2201m000) session is used to generate resources. When the Resources by Site concept is set to Active, resources and resource capacities are viewed and maintained in the Resources (cprpd2501m000) session and the resource capacity sessions.

In addition, when you create an operational entity such as a work center or a supplying relationship in Manufacturing, a resource of type Work center or Supplying Cluster is automatically created in Enterprise Planning. If an operational entity is deleted, the corresponding resource is also deleted.

Using the Generate Resources (cprpd2201m000) session

In the Generate Resources (cprpd2201m000) session, you can specify these selection ranges for which to generate resources:

  • Clusters

    This range includes external planning clusters, that is, planning clusters that represent customers with supplying relations, and planning clusters that are excluded from planning are ignored.

  • Resource types

    The resource types for which to generate resources.

In the Supply Models from field, you can specify a date. Product subcontracting models, supplying models, and entries in the Items - Purchase Business Partner by Site (tdipu0190m000) session with expiry dates before this date are skipped.

In addition, product subcontracting models that meet these criteria are excluded:

  • Status New or Expired
  • Defined for customized items whose projects are closed.