Key Resources

Use this screen to establish information on available key resources, including the resource's capacity to meet production requirements. You can specify both internal and external resources, including:

• Manufacturing equipment and/or work centers

• Personnel

• Vendors

Key resources are typically set up for critical or potential bottleneck resources only. Once they are set up, they can be linked to work centers, operations, and routings lines in the Routings module. Once linked to routing lines, they can be used by the Calculate Planning Routings application to determine key resource usage by end item.

When you generate rough-cut capacity plans via the Master Production Scheduling Menu, MPS compares the capacity of the key resource entered here versus what will be consumed (load), by date, based on open independent demand (sales orders, forecasts, and issue reservations).

In a multi-company environment, key resources are linked to the company they were set up in. Key resource IDs cannot be reused in different companies.

This application is also available in the Routings module.

Key Resource

Enter an alphanumeric identifier for a new key resource or use Find/Query to find an existing key resource.

Name

This field displays the description of the equipment, personnel, work center or vendor that you specify in the Key Resource field. You can change this name.

Active

Select this checkbox to indicate that the resource is active. Inactive key resources will not be included in rough-cut capacity planning calculations.

Resource Type  

Enter the code for the resource type or use Lookup to find a resource type. For example, a resource could have the type ARCH for Architect, or MACH for Machinery. If you need to set up more resource type codes, use the Resource Types screen.

Capacity Unit of Measure

Specify the unit of measure MPS uses to display resource capacity for scheduling and rough-cut capacity calculations:

Hours

This is the default option.

Other

If you click this option, you can use the corresponding field to specify a different unit of measure. Either enter the unit of measure code or use Lookup to find one.

Capacity

For each key resource, you need to indicate when the resource becomes available and at what rate. For example, you could specify that the resource becomes available on June 1, 2007 and is available for 20 hours per week. You need to specify these settings:

Starting Effective Date

Specify the beginning date the weekly capacity become effective for this key resource.  This capacity figure will be used for all weeks until the next row’s starting effective date.

Weekly Capacity

Specify the capacity, in the unit of measure entered above, of this key resource during a production week.

You can insert additional rows to indicate fluctuations in capacity. For example, you could indicate that a resource is available 20 hours/week for the month of June, 40 hours/week for July and August, and then 20 hours/week again starting in September:

Notes

When determining the key resource for a given week, the Generate Rough-Cut Capacity Plan application selects the capacity row with the latest starting effectivity date that is less than or equal to the week's end date. Any week prior to the earliest row's date is assumed to have a capacity of zero.  Any week with a date past the last row's starting effective date will use that row's weekly capacity.

Tables

The Costpoint tables impacted are listed in the following table: