How You Manage Maintenance Resources
The resources are the labors, equipment, and tools allocated to a work center. Resources can be categorized into two types: Labor or Equipment.
The Manage Resources page serves as a starting point to create, edit, and delete the resources. To access the Manage Resources page, based on your security privilege, you can do either of the following:
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In the Maintenance Management work area, in the Tasks pane, click the Manage Maintenance Resources link in the Maintenance Setup category.
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In the Setup and Maintenance work area, use the following:
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Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management
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Functional Area: Maintenance Management
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Task: Manage Maintenance Resources
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Create, Edit, and Delete Resources
You must create a resource with unique name and code. Additionally, you must define the resource type and usage UOM of the resource at the time of creation. If your organization is project-tracked, you can use the Default Expenditure Type field to specify the expenditure type that's defaulted onto the resource transactions when interfaced to costing. You can't change the usage UOM of a resource once the resource is associated with a work center. However, you can edit all other resource attributes at any time.
A resource is deactivated or reactivated by updating the Inactive On field. When a resource is deactivated, the resource isn't available for further use until it's reactivated. You can delete a resource only if the resource isn't assigned to any work center and the resource isn't associated with any active resource instance.