Understanding Resource Working Hours

After you have defined default working hours in the Resource Assignment Constants program, you use the Resource Working Hours program to set up working hour calendars. You can set up two types of working hour calendars:

• Base calendar

  The base calendar enables you to set up the working hours in a typical work week for a group of resources. The group of resources is associated with the same work day calendar in the Resource Master program. When you create a base calendar, the system supplies the working hours using the default values from the Resource Assignment Constants for business unit ALL. You can edit these values as necessary. For days on which no work is done—for example, Saturday and Sunday—you can override the normal working hours by entering 0 (zero) in the Start Time and End Time fields. In addition, you can specify that the system considers certain days, such as holidays, nonworking days.

• Resource calendar

  Resource calendars enable you to override the capacity for a particular resource for a particular date or date range. Use resource calendars for exceptions to the base calendar, such as vacation time for a specific resource.

  The resource must exist in the Resource Master table (F48310) before you can create a resource calendar.

The calendar values that are defined in the Resource Working Hours program (P48307) are stored in the F48307 table.