Overview of Resource Planning

The Resource Planning tool provides warehouses the ability to plan for expected workload and determine the number of resources required to complete the activity. Having visibility to expected resources enables a warehouse to accurately plan for overtime, temporary staffing, and so forth, thus optimizing the resource costs.

This chapter explains how to configure resources, their resource pools, and warehouse timings. This aids the warehouse in planning their resources and fulfilling demands for all outbound activities. The demand may be placed on resource pools in the form of Orders, Shipments, Work Orders, and so forth. As an example, configuring these for outbound activities helps you understand how to perform resource planning for outbound shipments. The common activities involved in outbound activities are:

The configurations that need to be done before creating resource pools are the following:

Defining resources includes defining Resource Pools and Task Type Associations and related subtasks.