Resource Capacity Planning enables you to model the supply of generic resources from business units and the demand for those generic resources by projects. This in turn defines the resource constraints for portfolio selection and helping you to maximize utilization of your NPD resources.

This is top-down approach to resource planning. Planning the supply and demand of generic resources (Scientist, Technican, Marketing Lead etc), rather than the named resource (Bill Smith, Sue Jones etc) enables you to achieve the goal of understanding resource constraints and costs, without having to track named resources at a detailed level. This often achieves about 80% of the value of resource management with only 20% of the effort.

Please refer to our Resource Management and Time tracking NPD process area for our bottom-up named resource management capabilities, which complements Resource Capacity Planning.