space requirement item

A detailed listing of space requirements for specified time periods that lists the required cost and area. This can be based on room area, count of room standards, or employee headcount (for space). Space requirement items can be associated with business units, divisions, departments, and functional groups.

For example, you might have a space requirement that defines the space needs for next year based on employee count and summarized to the department level. For each department, the space requirement would have a space requirement item that details the required area, the cost, and the cost of moving and furnishing this space.

Spare requirement items are stored in the Space Budget Items table, and the current inventory is stored in the Baseline (Period 0) field. If the space requirement represents a forecast, you will store the forecasted areas in the Period 1 through 12 fields of the space requirement item (depending on how many forecast periods you have).

If the space requirement item represents a functional group, the record also includes a value for the Functional Group Title field.

If you are working with the Enterprise Assets application, the Space Budget Items table holds the space requirement items as well asset requirement items (the baseline and projected furniture and equipment). See asset requirement.

See also space requirement.