Next you see a table or list of resources with resource type or pool, dates, duration and efforts or work-hours, rate per hour and of course cost. This is your labor estimate; all the options outlined above simply populate this list for you to review and refine.

1. Click the + button to add a new resource, or the - button to delete an existing resource from your estimate
2. Select the resource. Estimates cannot be created without a resource type or pool. Resources are loaded during the implementation and are typically imported from SAP activity type / work center combinations
3. The rate per hour for the selected resource, as well as its department and SAP work-center, are populated automatically. The rate per hour normally comes from SAP's activity type rate for the resource's cost center in SAP, but you can edit rates manually
   • The rate per hour is read based on the labor START DATE, which in turn defaults from the assigned task, WBS or proposal
   • Rates cannot be edited within the estimate, only in the resource master
4. The effort (work-time) or quantity can either be input manually or derived automatically
   • Duration is calculated from number of working days (based on your company's work-time calendar) and effort is calculated from duration x full-time equivalent resources (FTE). You can show the columns for dates, duration and FTE as needed
   • When you copy a previous plan or copy an estimate from actual performance history with a complexity factor higher than 1, the original effort is copied to reference effort and the new effort or quantity is calculated as the reference effort x complexity
5. The estimating basis is copied from the top to the table column here but can be changed manually. Depending on what you select (e.g. copy from plan or copy from actuals) you may have to specify the reference proposal or project, and WBS
6. If you are doing a parametric estimate select the most appropriate formula and enter any BOE-level parameters into the popup
7. Select or enter the distribution curve, how you want the total labor effort to be spread between start and end dates for this resource
8. Click the speech bubble to enter remarks or assumptions specific to this one resource in this estimate
9. You can upload or download your resources from/to Excel or change the view/columns.