Labor Requirements

When you click the Labor link on the work order's Requirement's page, a Labor Requirements group box displays with a grid containing these tabs:

• Details.

• Timetable.

• Estimated Cost.

• Crew Assignments.

• Crew Timetable.

Important:

If you do not select the View WO Requirements check box on the User Preferences - Maintenance Management page, the Labor link will be disabled on the Requirements page of the work order. Also, if you do not select the Labor Requirements check box on either the Definition page of the work order business unit, or the Shop Information page, the Laborlink will be disabled on the Requirements page of the work order.

You can optionally set up labor requirements to determine the number of resources from a craft with specific qualifications that are needed to perform a work order task, as well as enter how long it will take to perform the task. When you enter the labor cost and billing rates, the system calculates the estimated labor costs for each labor resource requirement line in the task. In addition, the system calculates and tracks the total estimated labor costs for each work order and each work order task and displays them on the work order's Cost page and on the Work Order History, Summary page. When the tasks are scheduled and executed, the Cost page displays the total scheduled labor costs and later the actual labor costs for the work order and for each work order task, along with the variance between the estimated and actual costs.

See Using the Work Order History Inquiry.

Before you can define labor requirements for a task, you must set up crafts and optionally associate a qualification profile with a craft. When you select labor resource requirements in the Details grid for a work order task, you select the crafts needed to perform the work order task, the number of resources needed per craft, and the total number of hours it will take each of these resources to complete the task. In addition, when you select the craft, you can click the link to the qualifications profile associated with the craft and modify these qualifications so that they correspond more specifically to the work order task. You can also add or copy a qualification profile to associate with the selected craft. Later, if you copy these requirements to the schedule, the Resource Matching process can use these qualifications to match resources to the task.

The selected craft, quantity, and hours also apply to a crew when crew scheduling is activated for the shop, which is associated with the work order. If crew scheduling is not activated in the shop, the Crew Assignment and Crew Timetable tabs do not appear on the page.

The work order task's required start and end dates and times display as the default values in the Timetable grid. You can override this information as necessary for each labor requirement that you specify for a work order task. Each labor requirement can have different requirement start and end dates and times than the work order task's required start and end dates and times. However, the start and end dates and times for each labor requirement must fall within the work order task's required start and end dates and times.

To calculate estimated cost, the default standard hourly bill rate and cost rate display in the Estimated Cost grid and are derived from either the work order business unit level, the shop header level, or the craft specified in the shop. You can enable specific users to override these default values in the work order in User Preferences, if desired. The system multiplies these rates times the number of resources per craft and the total number of hours required to complete the task and calculates the estimated cost for each resource requirement. The total estimated labor costs for the entire work order and each task display on the work order's Cost page and the Work Order History, Summary page.

The default currency code used for all requirements and schedules is set up in the work order business unit. Even if the work order task transactions are processed by an application, such as PeopleSoft Inventory, that uses a different currency code, the transaction amounts are converted back into the currency code identified in the work order business unit and displayed in PeopleSoft Maintenance Management.

When you define the labor requirements by craft, the craft, quantity, and hours entered display in Crew Assignments tab. The crew shop, crew, scheduled hours, and carryover hours field values are updated when the crew is assigned on the Crew Scheduling Workbench to this task.

The crew start and end dates and times and the completed date fields on Crew Timetable tab are updated based on entries in the Crew Scheduling Workbench for this task.

Note:

The fields on these two tabs are not updated if crew scheduling is not applied to this work order.

See Understanding Crew Scheduling.