Can someone explain to me how the scheduling engine treats “People” resources differently? All of the resources I’ve encountered (ELC, Scheduling Technical Reference Guide, etc.) make this assertion, but none of them really explain what this means, nor how to indicate that a resource is a person (or a resource group is people). There’s no checkbox to indicate this at the the resource group/resource level, and the resource type is a user-generated list? I can create an infinite amount of resource types and there’s no checkbox to indicate that type represents people. How does the does the scheduling engine know?
An excerpt from scheduling technical reference for 10.2.400
People Resources
Note that although a person can be entered as a resource, the scheduling engine does not treat people resources the same as physical resources, because the resource calculations are not directly linked with the labor shift calculations that are generated either through Labor Entry or the MES interface. To reflect your shifts accurately, use the Production Calendar to indicate the hours when work will be performed by a resource during each working day.
I think this means that the scheduling engine doesn’t care about your labor transactions. If you want to the scheduling engine to correctly schedule your people resources, then they each need an accurate production calendar assigned to them to show their working days/hours.
Anyone, please clarify if I am misleading here.