Resources can be assigned to routing operations. Resources are used to cost and schedule jobs and repetitive schedules. A resource is anything of value, except material and cash, required to manufacture, cost, and schedule products. People, tools, machines, outside processing services, machines, and physical space are commonly used resources. See: Defining a Resource.

• Departmental Resources

  You can identify which resources are available to a department when you define departments. Departments can have multiple resources.

• Standard versus Non-Standard

  You can specify whether to charge resources at a standard or non-standard rate. Non-standard resources can be charged manually in Work in Process. If the resource is a non-standard, outside processing resource, its costs are derived from the purchase order it is associated with.

• Outside Processing Resources

  You can define a resource as an outside processing resource. Outside processing resources must be associated with the item that they are used to produce. See: Overview of Outside Processing.

• Phantom Assembly Resources

  Phantom assemblies are non-stocked items that group material needed to produce an assembly or a subassembly. When parent or high level assemblies are phantoms, resource costs, including overheads are not charged to the parent or higher level assembly cost. When phantoms arse used as subassemblies, however, you can set a parameter in Oracle Bills of Material to specify that its resource and overhead costs are charged to the parent or higher level assembly. See: Phantom Assemblies.

• Charge Types

  You must assign a charge type to each resource. Charge types determine how resources are charged in Work in Process.

• Resource Activities

  You can assign the activities you define in Oracle Cost Management to resources. Activities are processes or procedures that consume costs and time. The can be used to assign indirect costs.

• Resource Basis

  You can assign a resource basis type of Item to a resource if its per unit usage rate is dependent on the number of assembly items being produced. If the per unit usage rate is fixed, for example labor to setup a machine for a job, you can assign a resource basis of Lot. See: Resource Usage.

• Resource Instances

  You can define specific machines to any of your machine type resources, and specific employees to labor type resources. All instances for a resource are viewable in the Resource Property window on the Scheduler Workbench, Job Workbench, and Resource Workbench.

  Contingent Workers

  A contingent worker is typically a self-employed individual or an agency supplied worker. Contingent workers can perform many of the roles assigned to your employees. This type of worker is not paid in your payroll; they submit payment invoices to your accounts payable department or can be set up in the Oracle Services Procurement using Oracle Time and Labor to generate payment invoices automatically.

  Note: Contingent workers exist as a separate category of worker from short-term or fixed-term contractors who are hired directly by your organization and are paid in your payroll.

• Adjusting Resource Capacity

  You can adjust resource capacity from the Scheduler Workbench. This can be done manually or automatically:

  • Reschedule the start and end dates of a resource .

  • Delete or add a day of capacity, adjusting for overtime shifts or shop closures.

  • Add or delete resource units when either extra resources are obtainable or resources are unavailable.

  • Adjust Assigned Units or Usage Rate for the resource on the job routing.

  See: Using the Resource Workbench

You can define routing operations as you create routings in Oracle Bills of Material. You can also add and update job and schedule routing operations in Work in Process. When you define a routing operation you must identify the department at which the operation is performed. You can assign any resource that is defined for that department to the routing operation. See: Assigning Operation Resources.

• Multiple Resources

  You can assign multiple resources to routing operations. You can sequence these resources as required. If you assign multiple resources, they are scheduled sequentially based on their resource sequence number, or in parallel, based on their scheduled attribute

• Costing Multiple Resources

  You can assign multiple resources to charge labor, machine usage, and other activities performed within the operation. For example, if you have costs associated with running a machine and costs associated with the machine operator, you can define them as two resources at the same operation. For each resource you can specify the sequence number of the resource, the usage rate, and the number of resources assigned to the operation working in parallel.

• Scheduling Multiple Resources

  Resource requirements are used for detailed scheduling. When multiple resources are assigned to an operation, operation start and end dates and times are scheduled based upon the sum of the times required for each resource. Job and repetitive schedule start and end dates and times are scheduled based upon sum of the time required for each operation.

  You can assign but not schedule resources at an operation. You can also assign resources used solely for scheduling, even though these resources do not actually provide value added work. See: Detailed Scheduling

Overview of Alternate Resource Sets

Alternate Resource Sets enable resources to be substituted and replaced as a group. In infinite scheduling - alternate resources can be a one-for-one substitution, or substitution by a group when the resources in the group are simultaneous.

In constraint-based scheduling - you can specify that a group, or set of resources, is substituted for another set. This enables resources to be sequential and span multiple schedule sequences. This functionality is used in manufacturing environments where groups of machines are used consecutively in an operation. The type of machine used in the first group determines the type of machine used in the second group. The groups are not simultaneous, therefore each corresponding pair of machines is assigned a replacement group value within a substitute group. Alternate resource sets are defined using the Resource Sequence, Schedule Sequence, Substitute Group, and Replacement Group fields:

Resource Sequence

• The resource sequence is the number that indicates the order a resource is used in an operation, relative to the other resources. This value is unique for each operation.

• If a schedule sequence number is not provided, since it is an optional field - the resource sequence is used for scheduling.

Schedule Sequence

• The schedule sequence number indicates the period the resource is used. When defining resource sets, you can define records with different schedule sequences using the same substitute group number value. This enables each replacement group, within a substitute group, to have a different set of schedule sequences.

Substitute Group

• This value indicates which resources can be used as alternates. Resources with the same substitute group number can replace other resources defined with that substitute group number, and the same replacement group number value.

• Substitute groups are used in the order of their defined schedule sequence number and resource sequence number combination.

• A resource can have alternates without defined schedule sequences; the substitute group value is not dependent on the schedule sequence number.

Replacement Group

• This value is used in grouping several resources together as an alternate resource group. The primary resource is always a Replacement Group value of 0.

• The resource Grinder1 is the primary resource and includes Tool-50 in its resource set. The replacement resource is Grinder-2.

• Grinder-2 is an alternate resource set that includes Tool-46 in its setup.

• The tools for each grinder are second in the setup of the grinders.

• The primary resource and alternate resource sets are in the same substitute group.

• The replacement group for the primary resource is 0, for the alternate it is another value.