The way you assign resources to projects will depend on specific settings. If Combined Resourcing is enabled through Planning Settings, the existing Strategic Planning and Scheduling resourcing modes are replaced by one combined mode that assumes central resourcing uses Demand/Supply and local Task Assignment scheduling uses the new Task Gantt. If not, depending on your Login Group settings, you will use:
•Strategic Planning to enter forecasts that determine the demand for each project and then assign resources to provide supply for that demand
•Scheduling to simply assign resources to tasks based on their availability.
Processing is over three views and these settings will determine which of these forms you see and how you process at them.
You may, depending on your role, access:
•Capacity to view departmental capabilities against project demand in a graphical and tabular manner; this will be either the enhanced view for Combined Resourcing or the standard version
•Requests, when available, to view project demand and allocate supply
•Resource Plan to view utilization and, when available, assign resources to projects ensuring their time is properly allocated; you will use either the Combined Resourcing or the existing standard version (based on Strategic or Scheduling Login Group setting).