Resource Editor Net Capacity Resource Calculations

Net resource capacity reflects all demands against a resource, even those you cannot see because they are for projects or pools you do not have access to. If a resource has more demand against it than the resource's total capacity, the net capacity values display as negative and in red text. If you do not need the net capacity information, you can hide it from the Resource Editor using Show Rows Icon in the upper right of the Resource Editor page.

Net capacity is calculated as follows:

  • If the resource is an auto-calculated resource in a requested-only pool linked to assigned-only pools:

Net Capacity = Total Available Capacity in all Related Pools - All Requested Demands for the Resource

For more information about linked pools, see Linking Requested Resource Pools with Assigned Resource Pools.

  • If the resource is not part of a linked pool:

Net Capacity = Total Available Capacity - All Demands for the Resource (Requested, Assigned, and Approved)

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You have a requested-only pool with an Any Chemist USA resource, which is a general resource that Project Managers can use to request a USA-based chemist for their projects. Your organization has 20 chemists in the USA that are in an assigned-only resource pools linked to the requested-only pool that contains the Any Chemist USA resource. The Any Chemist USA resource is set to have its capacity automatically calculated based on the capacities of the chemists in the related assigned-only pools.

Each USA-based chemist is the equivalent of a full-time employee (FTE), and all have full availability for the first month of the year. Therefore, the Any Chemist USA resource has a total available capacity of 20 FTEs in January. Multiple projects in your organization require chemists based in the USA. As a Project Manager, when you make requested demands for the Any Chemist USA resource, as you add your demands in Resource Editor, use the information in the Net Capacity row to determine if there is enough remaining capacity for the Any Chemist USA resource. If your requests, combined with any other requested demands or assigned demands for the Any Chemist USA Resource (which you cannot see in Resource Editor because you did not make the requests), exceeds the capacity, the net capacity displays as negative, red number.

In this same scenario, Resource Planners use the information in the Net Capacity row to view the remaining capacity for resources in assigned pools as they create assigned demands to fulfill requested demands.

Important! Net capacity is viewable in both the Resource Editor and in the Resource Planning page, however the net capacity calculations on the Resource Editor page reflects different values than the net capacity on the Resource Planning page. The net capacity calculation on the Resource Planning page is the total net availability for the resource, and is calculated using the Capacity and Unavailable values by time period.

See Using the Unavailable Function Within the Resource Planning Page for more information.

Notes:   

  • By default, an assigned-only pool can only be linked to one requested-only pool. If the Allow Multiple Links For an Assigned Pool system parameter is enabled, an assigned-only pool can be linked to more than one requested-only pool. Capacity calculations roll up to each parent, accordingly. With multiple parents, capacity may be over counted across the parent pools.

  • Resource Planning is an optional Accolade component that you may not have access to. To implement this solution, contact Sopheon Customer Support .

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