You specify a name and a description of an asset, or pool of assets, to define a non-labor resource. For example, you can define a non-labor resource with a name such as Earth Mover to represent one earth mover your business owns. You can also define a non-labor resource with a name such as PC to represent multiple personal computers your business owns.

• Every usage item you charge to a project must specify the non-labor resource utilized and the non-labor resource organization that owns the resource.
• When defining your non-labor resources, you can choose only expenditure types with the Usage expenditure type class.
• You can use the non-labor resource organization in your AutoAccounting rules for usage cost and revenue.

To define non-labor resources:

1.In the Non-Labor Resources window enter a name, description, effective date(s), and a usage expenditure type for each non-labor resource your organization owns.
 
2. For each non-labor resource you define, enter the organization(s) to which the resource is assigned in the Organizations region. Enter the effective dates during which the resource is owned by each organization.
The organizations you enter can include any organization from your organization hierarchy, regardless of whether the organization has the Expenditure Organization classification, and regardless of the start and end dates for the organization.

3. If you want to override the cost rate of the expenditure type by the resource and organization combination, choose Cost Rates and enter the cost rate for the operating unit in question , and the effective date(s) in the Cost Rates Overrides window.
Attention: A non-labor resource may be a piece of equipment whose capacity is consumed, such as a training room, or equipment whose physical output is consumed, such as a copier. You can plan and report for non-labor resources as equipment whose capacity is consumed by enabling the equipment resource class.