Resources in Enterprise Planning
In Enterprise Planning, the means used in production processes to produce items are referred to as resources.
Resources are used to provide information about available capacity, capacity utilization, the resulting free capacity, and capacity capable to promise.
The activation status of the Resources by Site concept determines which resource functionality is available.
Resources by Site inactive
A resource plan in Enterprise Planning corresponds to a work center in Manufacturing. These plans are only available for Job Shop work centers. The Work Centers - Planning (cprpd2100m000) session, which is used to maintain plan settings, is renamed to Work Centers - Planning (cprpd2100m000).
Resources by Site active
The Resources functionality that was used when the Resources by Site was inactive is still available.
The new Resources functionality uses various types of resources and resource capacities. The Planner Workbench (cprrp8351m000) session provides overviews of the available resources and resource capacities.
A resource in Enterprise Planning corresponds to an operational entity in Manufacturing or Purchase Control.
The table shows the available types of resources and the operational entities to which the resources correspond:
| Operational entity | Resource type |
|---|---|
| Work center | Work center |
| Work cell | Work Cell |
| Work cell machine | Work Cell Machine |
| Machine capacity group | Machine Capacity Group |
| Operation subcontractor | Operation Capacity |
| Product subcontractor | Production Capacity |
| Supplying cluster | Supplying Cluster |
| Supplier | Supplier |
When you create an operational entity such as a work center in Manufacturing or a supplying relationship in Enterprise Planning, 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.
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) | |
Calendars
If you link a calendar to a planning resource, Enterprise Planning uses this calendar for capacity planning. If no calendar is linked to the planning resource, LN uses a more general calendar.
Calendars are defined in Common, and consist of combinations of time-interval types and availability types. In the Scenario - Overrule Calendar (cprpd4160m000) session, you can specify per scenario which availability type is used for a specific calendar.
This means that you can change the availability type of a calendar in a certain scenario, and let Enterprise Planning calculate the consequences of a changed availability type of the calendar linked to the planning resource. If you did not specify an availability type for the calendar linked to the planning resource in the Scenario - Overrule Calendar (cprpd4160m000) session, Enterprise Planning uses the availability type of the Job Shop Master Data Parameters (tirou0100m000) session in Manufacturing to plan routing operations.