Determine time-related costs

You can specify cost rates for human resources and technical resources to calculate the costs of resource utilization or provision for your process and include them in the evaluations.

Procedure

  1. Right-click the human or technical resource for which you want to define the cost rates.

  2. Click Attributes.

  3. In the tree view, click Simulation.

  4. Enter the relevant values for the attributes Cost rate (busy time) and Cost rate (idle time). The cost rates indicate the costs per hour.

  5. Click Close.

  6. In the Save object dialog, click Yes.

The cost rates for the human/technical resource are saved. Based on these cost rates, the costs of resource utilization or provision will be calculated during the next simulation run.

Then activate the Human resource costs and Technical resource costs statistics to calculate the expense for the simulated process. You can compare the costs stated in the generated evaluations with your budget, for example.