Every work centre has a working calendar, a capacity and a cost rate. Operations in the routing are assigned to work centres; this way planning sees the load and costing sees the hourly rates.
How it affects your decision
Defining work centres in too much detail brings a maintenance burden; defining them too coarsely brings blindness. The right level of detail is chosen according to which resource is really the bottleneck in planning.
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What does this term mean in your project?
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