The Inventory-based Planning window creates a work plan from inventory for selected administrative unit(s). The work plan is shown in the Plan pane, while a summary of costs for the plan is shown in the upper Summary of Costs pane.
The Plan pane provides the following fields:
- Activity is what will be done. It is selected from a drop-down list, the contents of which are configured in the Setup Activities window.
- Annual Quantity is a calculated field equal to the Inventory Quantity multiplied by the Inven to Activity Coef multiplied by the Annual Frequency. You cannot enter a value directly in this field.
- Asset Type is the type of asset for which the activity will be performed.
- Budget Category is the account to which costs for this activity will be charged.
- Current/Desired LOS shows the current and desired LOS values.
- Desired Quantity Standard shows the expected amount of work to be accomplished for this activity.
- Inven to Activity Coef is used in determining the Annual Quantity and is a factor that represents the amount (as a decimal percentage between 0.0 and 1.0) of the Inventory Quantity that will actually be affected by the activity. For example, say your agency is responsible for 46,000 feet of guardrail. You survey a 1,000-foot section and find that repairs were needed on 300 feet of that section. The Inven to Activity Coef factor would thus be 0.3. On the other hand, if your agency was responsible for mowing 100 acres, the Inven To Activity Coef factor would be 1.0 because all 100 acres (the entire inventory amount) would be mowed.
- Inventory Quantity is the amount of the asset for which the activity will be performed.
- Person Hours is the total person-hours needed to perform the annual work quantity. This value can be contrasted with what was desired (Person Hours Desired) and with the hours per unit of work (Unit Person Hours) taken from the activity's Performance Guideline.
- Resource costs (labor, equipment, material, and contract) are the total cost of a resource costs based on the Annual Quantity multiplied by the resource's associated Unit Cost.
- Unit costs (labor, equipment, material, contractor, and total) are taken directly from the activity's Performance Guideline.
