Resources

The Resources module combined with the existing production module provides a base platform for managing light manufacturing processes in SAP Business One. A resource is defined as a commodity, machine, labour, or other asset used to produce goods and services. Unlike items, resources have capacity available throughout a period which can be consumed in a production process. Resources (resource capacity) can therefore be assigned to production orders. Resource capacity is always viewed within a period called "capacity period". Using the resources functionality, you can perform the following key business functions such as: -

·       Manage basic production capacity

·       Analyse real-time production variances

·       Simplify BOM management

·       Use production order more flexibly

·       Monitor complete standard production costing

 

All resources belong to a group. You can create multiple groups to classify your resources. Upon creation, a resource acquires setting defaults from its group and under every group you can assign a unique resource type. Depending on the resource type you have created, you can either assign a fixed asset or an employee to it. Some of the resource types are: -

·       Machine: - They can be linked to fixed assets.  

·       Labour: - This type of resource can be linked to employees.

·       Other: - This resource cannot be linked to fixed assets or employees.

 

 

When used in conjunction with the production module, resources could prove to be quite handy. For example, you can use the resources capacity window to review your resource and factory capacity constraints and narrow down your constraints by warehouse, resource code, resource group and resource type for optimized resource allocation and production planning. Another major function of resource capacity allocation is to balance workloads while ensuring uninterrupted resource allocation to your production schedules by setting up the resource master data for each machine & labour and configuring the resource capacity.