Each resource group or pool has key information required for costing purposes. Resource details can be accessed from the resource group list by double-clicking on the resource you want to open. The KEY INFO tab allows you to:

1. Edit the resource code, which is a language-independent short description of the resource and must be unique
2. Edit the resource group description, also required and unique. Users can search for resource pools in the labor estimating application by code or description
3. What type of kind of resource group this is. Normally there is just one type of resource group (SAP activity type) however you can create more working with your implementation consultant
4. The company and optionally the department your resource group works in. Only specify department if this resource group applies to a single department. You specify the company or department in your labor estimate to narrow down the search for resource pools
5. Each resource group has a work-schedule and holiday calendar which indicates how to confirm "1 full time equivalent" (FTE) to effort or hours in each labor estimate. For example a 40 hr work week with absolutely no holidays results in 1 FTE as being 2,080 hours per year, as compared to a 40 hr work week with 20 holiday + vacation days per year being 1,920 hours per year
   • Reducing the number of hours per week in the work-schedule reduces the effective output or working time of this resource when assigned full-time (1 FTE) equally throughout every week in the calendar year
   • Adding holidays and even vacation days on specific dates to the work-calendar marks specific dates as "non-working times" and so reduces the effective output or working time of this resource on specific dates, weeks or months throughout the year. For example, marking a Christmas shutdown for 6 days from December 24-31 reduces the working days for December 2019 from 22 to 16, i.e. working hours reduces from 176 to 128 hours without reducing the working hours in other months
6. Each resource pool has a cost element which is the account credited when labor is booked by people in this resource pool. It is used for reporting purposes and to trigger the correct fringe, overhead and G&A indirect cost calculation
7. Each resource pool is mapped to an SAP activity type, cost-center and work-center. These fields are normally populated when the resource pool is synchronized or imported from SAP's work-center/activity type list. This mapping is required to link SAP's activity type planning rates (which are input by cost center and fiscal year in SAP) and to ensure the correct fringe, overhead and G&A indirect costs are accrued based on cost element groups
8. Each resource pool should also be mapped to a resource ID in Primavera P6 if you intend to transfer schedules and work-plans between this application and Primaversa
9. Resources are normally estimated based on manually entering effort, FTE or copying from a template or previous plan for the same resource. Resource efforts can also be calculated used a parametric formula or cost estimating relationship. If you always tend to calculate the effort for this resource from a pre-determined parametric formula then select the formula here to have to automatically drop into your labor estimate when selecting this resource.

Named individuals or employees are not currently assigned to a resource group because labor costing in a proposal is not normally related to who you plan to do the actual work. It is possible to link named individuals to one or more resource groups for the purpose of searching for the resource by named individual, for example "what skill-set do I need here for 100 hours, I remember Fred Flinstone was one ....?"

Custom fields or tags may be also assigned to the resource pool and get copied into the cost model for reporting purposes. These are not the same tags as you would set up your proposal and inherit through the WBS to the estimate, these tags are copied directly from the resource group into the cost model.