Why the Labor Cost Generation not Autogenerating for Resource Assignment

[Konstantin7]

We are setting up to migrate from Resource Plan to Resource Assignment. When we are using Resource Plans, the Cost Plan is generated when the Resource Plan is created and approved. For the Resource Assignment, it requires the user to manually click the 'Generate labor cost' button in order to generate the Cost Plans. 

What is the recommendation of automizing the cost plan [generate labor cost] creation similar to the Resource Plan works?

[Tanushree Maiti]

Hi  @Konstantin7 

In the new experience, when resource assignments are in use, labor costs must be generated—this behavior is by design.

Generate labor costs 

Refer: Generate labor cost plans by individual resources based on Resource Assignments

             A Practical Guide to Resource Assignments

               Attribute based labor costs generation for Demands, Projects and Epics - How to setup and use

            https://www.servicenow.com/community/spm-forum/cost-plan-not-getting-created-when-resource-assignmen...

[Namita Mishra]

Hi @Konstantin7 ,

You are correct that in the resource assignments, you have to click on the 'Generate Labor Cost' to generate the labor cost.

As a best practice, you can activate the scheduled job -  Generate Labor Costs For Epic and other planning items - to automatically generate labor costs for attribute-based resource assignments.

Hope this helps and if it does please mark this as a correct response to help me and the community.

Happy SPM Journey!

Thank You!

Namita Mishra

[Konstantin7]

What would the negative impact be (if there are any) if we create a business rule that would run when the Resource Assignment is assigned to a user?

[Vinay3]

Hi @Konstantin7 It might overload the system especially when there are many resource assignment updates consecutively. It is recommended to use the 'scheduled job' to update labor cost plans in short intervals instead of triggering the BR to regenerate cost plans for every RA update