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How You Allocate Resource Units to Shifts

If you don't select the Available 24 Hours check box while assigning the resource to a work center, then units of that resource are made available in shifts.

You need to allocate the number of resource units for each shift. You do this on the Edit Work Center page in the column for each shift. If you don't manually specify the number of units, default number of units available in that work center is used for each shift.

The default units available are automatically assigned to all the shifts of your calendar, which you can modify.

Example

Let's say you assign four resources, R1, R2, R3, and R4 to a work center WC1.

  • WC1 functions in two shifts, Day Shift and Night Shift.

  • 2 units of each resource are available in work center WC1.

  • You didn't select the Available 24 Hours check box while assigning any resource, so resource units are allocated to shifts

Let's say you have varying resource requirements. Let's consider each one and understand how you implement them.

For R1: You want two units of R1 for the day shift only.

  1. In the Resource Availability Region, in the Day Shift column for R1, enter a value of 2.

For R2: You want one unit of R2 for the day shift and one unit for the night shift.

  1. In the Resource Availability Region, in the Day Shift column for R2, enter a value of 1.

  2. In the Night Shift column also, enter a value of 1.

For R3: You want both units of R3 available for both shifts.

  1. In the Resource Availability Region, in the Day Shift column for R3, enter a value of 2.

  2. In the Night Shift column also, enter a value of 2.

For R4: You want R4 available all day.

  1. Click the resource link.

  2. Select the Available 24 Hours check box.

  3. Click OK.

Here's what your resource availability looks like now:

Resource

Default Units Available

Day Shift

Night Shift

R1

2

2

-

R2

2

1

1

R3

2

2

2

R4

2

-

-
Note: The Resource Calendar icon is enabled and visible for those resources that are available in shifts.

When you're done, click Save and Close.

You can also use the Functional Setup Manager (FSM) to bulk export and import work center resource units allocated in a plant calendar shift without work center calendar overrides in the Setup and Maintenance work area. When migrating setup data between test and production environments, you can export work center resource shifts data from one environment and import it into another environment.