Introduction

The Resource Management module enables you to plan, allocate, and schedule resources efficiently. Resource management emphasizes how resources must be managed. The ability to analyze critical resources and the availability of the resources to perform a specific task in a company’s sales cycle, is vital. The key resources for consideration are employees, equipment, and assets (machines), Instruments (Quality), subcontractors, and material. The focus is especially on employees. A key factor for detailed resource planning is the ability to make good decisions about which resource to allocate to existing work within the specified time. The employees can be either internal or external. Employees can be involved in combinations of project, service, manufacturing, and quality related work. The employees must have specific skills and competencies that need to be matched with the required task.