Using Partner Functions to set up Person Responsible?

Hello All,
Can someone please advise what the best practice is for creating individual personnel entires for engineers within Plant Maintenance.
In the past we have used work centres to identify individuals. This is causing issues with capacity planning and so I want to use an alternative method.
I can see that Personnel No's can be created, however, this appears to require the use of the SAP HR module where the master data for these records are held, unfortunately we do not use SAP HR and so cannot use this here.
Can I use Partner Functions to resolve this issue and if so how do I set it up?
Essentially I want to create Work Centres for specific skill sets i.e Electician, Mechanic etc and then assign individuals to the appropriate groups. That way we can plan and record time against individual engineers.
As always any help is appreaciated.
Regards
Chris
Edited by: CGADMIN23 on Mar 30, 2011 2:18 PM

Pete / Narasimhan
Thankyou for your replys.
I have not come across Mini HR Master previously so don't know how this works. We do not have the HR module installed and therefore I didn't think this would be a option.
We have always set up individuals as Work Centres but having read through the 'Plant Maintenance with SAP' book I am lead to believe this is not best practice?
Ultimately we would like to be able identify individuals so that we can assign jobs and plan capacity. We also want to be able to assign individuals to specific work centres which would identify there particular skill set.
Do we need to purchase an additional module to use HR Mini Master? How does this work?
Regards
Chris

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