How You Manage Maintenance Resources

The resources are the people, equipment, and tools allocated to a work center. Resources can be categorized into two types: Labor or Equipment. Labor resources are used define the job category required to schedule, optionally assign, and complete an operation in a work order. The quantity and duration defined are used to derive the duration of an operation when scheduling work order. You can optionally define resource instances for each resource, which represent the specific person or tool asset available for scheduling and assignment.

The same or different resources can be defined in work centers within or across organizations. If you define resources for use in Global Engineering Definitions, ensure they have a common code value, or they can’t be replicated.

The Resources page serves as a starting point to create, edit, and delete the resources. To access the Resources page, based on your security privilege, you can do either of the following:

• In the Maintenance Management work area, in the Tasks pane, click the Maintenance Resources link in the Maintenance Setup category.

• In the Setup and Maintenance work area, use the following:

  • Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management

  • Functional Area: Maintenance Management

  • Task: Manage Maintenance Resources

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.

Note:

The usage UOM field indicates the unit of measure for the planned and actual usage of a resource. You can use the resource in a work definition and work order if the usage UOM belongs to the UOM class as defined in the profile SCM Common: Default Service Duration Class (RCS_DEFAULT_UOM_CLASS_CODE_FOR_SVC_DURATION). For any scheduled resource, it's recommended that this profile be set to a UOM class that represents units of measure for 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.