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Resource Requisition Overview

A requisition is a request to staff a specific project with labor resources. The chief benefit of requisitions is planning. If you bypass a requisition and assign a resource directly to a project, could jeopardize your own project. This is because you are assigning without knowing about the other projects the resource can be working on. Hence, you can overburden the resource or assign the wrong resource. Requisition recipients tend to be resource managers who are knowledgeable about the workloads and skills of their resources. Thus, when you submit a requisition, the resource managers assign the most appropriate resources to the projects.

You can use resource requisitioning to do the following:

• Create tailored resource requisitions that suit the needs of specific projects
• Perform an on-the-spot search for resources that fit requisition requirements
• Discuss a requisition with its recipients

Requisitions are project-specific, which means that you cannot create a requisition that staffs multiple projects at the same time. Each requisition contains a request for only one staffing requirement and can serve only one project.

See the Project Management User Guide for more information.