The following explanations also apply to technical resources. Regardless of whether you use the carries out or contributes to connection, assigning the Additive attribute value (Resource allocation attribute, Simulation attribute type group of functions) has the effect of utilizing all human resources for carrying out the function.
Allocate a specific employee to a function
You can allocate a specific employee to a function (resource allocation strategy). Always use occurrences for identical objects in organizational charts and process models.
Procedure
Use the Person object type to commit the employee directly to the function in the control flow model via the carries out or contributes to connection.
Allocate only this employee to an object of the Organizational unit, Group, Role, or Position type in the organizational chart and commit this object to the corresponding function in the control flow model.
You have allocated a particular employee to the function.
Allocate multiple employees to a function
You can allocate multiple employees to a function.
Prerequisite
If you have not specified the Resource allocation function attribute and you allocate all employees via the carries out connection, these employees will be used alternatively for processing the function.
If you have not specified the Resource allocation function attribute and you allocate one or all employees via the contributes to connection, all of these employees will be essential for processing the function.
Procedure
Use the Person object type to commit the employees directly to the function in the control flow model via the carries out or contributes to connection.
Allocate multiple employees to an object of the Organizational unit or Group type in the organizational chart and commit this object to the corresponding function in the control flow model.
At the carries out or contributes to connection for the Number of required employees simulation attribute, enter the minimum number of employees required for carrying out the function. For example, if you enter 3, and 6 employees are available for the object, the function is processed if 3 of the employees can be committed to the function. It does not matter which three of the six employees are eventually available to process the function.
You have allocated multiple employees to the function.
You can also allocate human resources using function allocation diagrams.
Allocate multiple employees to a function, one of whom is mandatory
You can allocate multiple employees to a function, one of whom is mandatory.
Procedure
Allocate multiple employees to an object of the Organizational unit or Group type in the organizational chart and commit this object to the corresponding function in the control flow model.
The employee whose allocation is mandatory must not be allocated to the Organizational unit or Group in the organizational chart. At the carries out or contributes to connection for the Number of required employees simulation attribute, enter the minimum number of employees required for carrying out the function.
Model the employee whose contribution to carrying out the function is mandatory directly at the function using the Person object type.
You have allocated multiple employees to the function, one of whom being mandatory.