Resource Classes

Resource classes are predefined classification of resources. For each resource class, you can define specific attributes that associated planning resources inherit.

Following is a description of the available resource classes and their attributes.

Available Resource Classes

The following table lists the resource classes available in Oracle Fusion Applications.

Resource Class	Description
Labor	Named persons or any grouping of named persons whose time capacity is consumed to complete project work. Named persons may be grouped by attributes such as job, organization, or role.
Equipment	Nonperson resource such as machinery, equipment, or facilities with time capacity that is consumed to complete project work. Examples include telecommunication charges (charged by call), or shared facilities or laboratory (charged for hours used).
Material items	Resources that are physically tracked as inventory, subassembly, work in progress (WIP), purchasable items, or finished goods.
Financial resources	Resources that have a financial value for the project. These resources use Currency as the unit of measure.

Resource Class Attributes

The following table lists the attributes that you can define for each resource class.

Attribute	Description
Spread curve	Determines how planned amounts for a planning resource are spread across the duration of the project or financial plan. You can change the spread curve that you select for a resource class at the planning resource level and for any corresponding task assignments, or budget or forecast lines.
Item master and category set	Determine the material item and item category lists used in planned transactions and planning, billing, and reporting resource breakdown structures.
Expenditure types	Determine default raw and burdened rates for a planning resource. For example, if the resource format does not contain an expenditure type or nonlabor resource, then the application uses the default expenditure type for the resource class of the resource to determine the rates. You must individually specify expenditure types for project units.

Attribute

Description

Spread curve

Determines how planned amounts for a planning resource are spread across the duration of the project or financial plan.

You can change the spread curve that you select for a resource class at the planning resource level and for any corresponding task assignments, or budget or forecast lines.

Item master and category set

Determine the material item and item category lists used in planned transactions and planning, billing, and reporting resource breakdown structures.

Expenditure types

Determine default raw and burdened rates for a planning resource. For example, if the resource format does not contain an expenditure type or nonlabor resource, then the application uses the default expenditure type for the resource class of the resource to determine the rates.

You must individually specify expenditure types for project units.

Resource Class Rate Schedules

Create rate schedules for resource classes that you can use for project and financial planning. When creating resource class rate schedules, you can specify both rates and markup percentages for each combination of resource class and organization.

Note: Markup percentage takes precedence for amount-based transactions where the unit of measure is Currency.

You specify a resource class rate schedule in the planning options for a financial or project plan type, project plan, or financial plan version as the source for rates or markup percentages, unless they are available elsewhere. For example, assume you are using actual rates on your financial plan version. If one of the planning resources is an expenditure category, then resource class rate schedules are used to derive rates for that resource because actual rates are not maintained for expenditure categories.