People and Organization Concepts

The role of a Resource Planner in any company is to bring together the right people, under the right conditions, with the right skills, to get a specific job done, as illustrated below:

In the above illustration, the Manager can call upon a pool of users referred to in this context as persons. These persons all have different skills or perform different roles, as indicated by the colored background. Roles concern either a specific discipline (for example, Structural, Piping, Electrical, etc.) and/or a job function (for example, Checker, Analyst, Planner, Designer, Reviewer, etc.).

The Manager then has to plan resources to bring together to meet the requirements of the new project. This involves identifying the set of roles needed to implement the project and assigning the persons with the required roles to the new project.

Furthermore, a single person may have more than one role on one or more operational organizations within one or more project, as illustrated below:

Persons are assigned to one or more operational organizations according to the roles they can perform. The operational organizations can then be assigned to one or more vessels because the same roles are often needed on different types of vessel.

Note: Note that persons can also belong to hierarchical organizations, but this does not prevent them from being assigned to operational organizations.

This leads to a triple relationship: role-organization-project. This relationship is referred to as a security context.

When the person logs onto the appropriate VPLM application, the person has to choose which security context to work on, which means that any person can only work within one security context at a time. Another term describing the security context is work assignment.

The central role played by the security context can be illustrated like this:

Once a working context (work assignment) has been set up, you then assign persons to the context. Persons assigned to the context will then be able to log on.

Note: The P&O solution is an implementation of the standard ISO-17799: access rights based on project, role and organization.