Migration of resource plans, operational resource plans, and cost plans

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    Summary of Migration of Resource Plans, Operational Resource Plans, and Cost Plans

    This guide outlines the process for migrating resource plans, operational resource plans, and cost plans to resource assignments and attribute-based labor costs within the ServiceNow Project Workspace. This migration simplifies project management and enhances resource allocation efficiency.

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    Key Features

    • Migrate Resource Plans: Resource plans are converted to resource assignments based on primary attributes like Group, Skill, and Role, excluding plans in Canceled or In-progress states.
    • Operational Resource Plans Migration: Similar to resource plans, operational resource plans in Allocated and Completed states are migrated to operational resource assignments.
    • Cost Plans Migration: Financial cost plans associated with resource plans are migrated to new attribute-based labor costs, analyzed based on Employee Type, Expense Type, and Role.

    Key Outcomes

    By migrating resource plans and cost plans, you can:

    • Efficiently manage resource allocations and project financials using Project Workspace.
    • Enable attribute-based resource assignments for precise resource management.
    • Recalculate resource costs as needed based on updates to rate models.
    • Activate a scheduled job to automate the migration process for future projects and demands.

    Effortlessly migrate resource plans to resource assignments and the associated cost plans to attribute-based labor costs of your projects or demands and easily work on resource allocations using Project Workspace.

    Tip:
    Resource Managers are encouraged to view the Resource Management Workspace boot camp to learn about Resource Management Migration to the Next Experience.

    Resource plans to resource assignments

    Migrate all the resource plans of a project or demand to attribute-based resource assignments depending on the planning attributes to easily manage your projects on Next experience using Project Workspace and Capacity Planning.

    Group, Skill, and Role are the primary attributes enabled for Resource Management depending on which the resource plans are migrated to resource assignments.
    Important:
    Resource plans in Planning, Requested, Confirmed, Allocated, Rejected, and Completed states are only migrated to Resource assignments. Resource plans in Canceled and In-progress states are not migrated.
    Let us see how the status of the resource plans are mapped to the status of resource assignments.
    Table 1. Status mapping between resource plans and resource assignments
    Resource plan status Resource assignments status
    Planned or Requested Unassigned
    Allocated Approved
    Confirmed Approved
    Completed Approved
    Cancelled or In-progress Resource plan is not migrated
    Rejected Unapproved

    When a resource plan is migrated, a corresponding resource assignment is created based on the primary attributes from the resource plan. Resource assignments do not support custom selection of allocation type and allocation spread.

    With the migration of resource plans:
    • Resource plans in Planning or Requested states, resource assignments are created based on the planned dates and planned duration with their default state as Unassigned.
    • Allocation type is set to planned duration.
    • Allocation spread is always Even.
    • Existing resource allocations are deleted and created again to accommodate resource allocations with the resource name and planned duration.
    • The allocated costs and allocated hours are copied to planned costs and planned hours.
    • Actual hours for the resource plans in Confirmed and Allocated states are retained with the resource plans.
    Note:
    Only one resource assignment is created for every unique combination of primary attributes, Group, Skill, and Role, and one for every user if the resource plans are created with selected member preferences. After migration, if you create a resource assignments with any of the existing combinations, the available resource assignments are updated with the new requests.

    Migration of Resource plans to Resource assignments

    Resource plans in different states.

    Resource plans list.

    Resource plans migrated as resource assignments.

    Resource assignments list.

    Operational resource plans to operational resource assignments

    Operational resource plans also follow the same logic to migrate operational resource plans to operational resource assignments.
    Important:
    Operational resource plans in Allocated and Completed states are only migrated as Operational resource assignments.

    After migration, the Request type of operational resource plans is changed to Hours.

    Migration of Operational resource plans to Operational resource assignments

    Operational resource plan in Allocated state created for Demo GroupA.

    Operational resource plans form.

    After migration, we will have the following Operational resource assignments for every member of the group.
    Note:
    The parent-child mapping is retained and you may see an additional resource assignment with empty resource.

    Operational resource assignments view after migration from Operational resource plans.

    Migration of cost plans to attribute-based cost plans

    When resource plans of a project or demand are migrated to resource assignments, the corresponding financial cost plans based on the resource plans will be migrated to new attribute-based labor costs. Migrate resource plans related link trigger migrates the cost plans along with resource plans migration.

    Every resource plan has an associated a cost plan with Labor capex as the cost type. While migrating, the planning attributes of the resource plans are analyzed to create attribute-based cost plans for the unique combination of the three planning attributes enabled for financials (Employee type, Expense Type, and Role). After migration, there will be no one-to-one association between resource assignments and attribute-based cost plans.

    Note:
    If a resource plan is not associated with either Employee Type or Role, the migrated cost plans costs are consolidated into a single cost plan.

    The planned costs are moved to the new attribute-based cost plans while the actual costs remain on the existing cost plan records. The rate model values associated with project or a demand are considered to generate attribute-based labor costs.

    Migration of cost plans to attribute-based cost plans

    Cost plans associated to a resource plan.

    List of cost plans with accounted planned and actual expenses.

    Attribute-based cost plan Resource_Internal_Capex is created after migration.

    List of attribute-based labor costs capturing the aggregate planned costs.