Understanding Resource Planning

Before you can generate and review a labor plan, you must set up information that the system uses to process the plan. For example, you must set up the work centers that are responsible for maintenance and specify the number of employees in each maintenance work center. You must also set up additional UDCs, such as the codes that the system uses to calculate the availability of labor resources.

In addition, you can set up different versions of the supply and demand inclusion rules to accommodate different types of labor plans that you want to generate. For example, you can generate a long-range labor plan and a short-range labor plan. You use supply and demand inclusion rules to specify the document types that you want the system to include when it processes each plan.