To define departments (crews) and resources (crafts):A department represents a crew within your organization. A crew may include people, machines, or suppliers. Departments are also used to collect costs, apply overhead, and compare load to capacity. Assign a department to each operation of a routing and assign resources that are available for that department. The department assigned to each operation of a routing also becomes the assigned department of the corresponding operation within the work order, if the work order is using the routing.
Resources are defined before departments. For information on defining resources, See: Defining a Resource. When you define a department, you specify available resources. A resource represents a craft. You can enter multiple resources for each department. For each resource, you can specify the shifts that the resource is available. For each resource shift, you can specify capacity modifications that change the available hours per day, units per day, or workdays.
To define departments (crews) and resources (crafts):Navigate to the Departments window.
Enter the Department name, unique to the organization.
Optionally select a department Class (See: Creating Department Classes).
Select a Location.
Enter a location for a department if it is the receiving department following outside processing (See: Overview of eAM Contractor Services and Outside Processing).
Enter a Project Expenditure Organization.
Optionally enter an Inactive On date on which you can no longer assign this department to routing operations.
For instructions on all remaining fields, See: Defining a Department.
Click the Resources button to add resources or crafts to the current department.
Enter the Resource to assign to the current department.
Optionally, for owned resources, indicate whether the resource is available 24 hours per day. You cannot assign shifts to a resource that is available 24 hours per day.
For owned resources, indicate whether this department can share the resource and capacity with other departments.
Enter the number of capacity Units (resource units) available for this department, for example, the number of machines for a machine resource.
Each resource can assign to any number of departments; multiple resources can be assigned to each department.
Optionally select the Check CTP check box to indicate that this resource is used in a Capable to Promise (CTP) check (See: Capable to Promise, Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning User's Guide).
Optionally enter a resource Group for the resource in this department.
Optionally select the Schedule by Instance check box to indicate whether the department resource should be scheduled at the instance level (specific person or piece of equipment).
For borrowed resources, enter the Owning Department.
Select the Planning tab. Optionally enter an Exception Set. The exception sets that you assign help to identify capacity problems (See: Planning Exception Sets, Oracle Capacity User's Guide).
Choose Instances to add persons (including contingent workers) or equipment to the current resource. See Implementing Oracle HRMS.
Choose Shifts for owned resources that are not available 24 hours per day. This enables you to assign and update shift information for the resource and define capacity changes for a shift.
Select a Shift Number.
The shifts available are those assigned to the workday calendar and assigned to the current organization.
Choose Capacity Changes to define capacity changes for a shift.
For more information, See: Assigning Resources to a Department.