Assessment item 3
Project Management Plan
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Case study – Grand Wines You are an employee of Grand Wines Ltd and project leader of a proposed project to equip each of the company’s 20 sales representatives with a wireless data entry device by which they could instantly communicate customer orders to the company’s central sales database in Sydney. The sales representatives operate over all areas of NSW and service around 400 independent wine and liquor stores in the state. Currently, the sales representatives complete customer orders manually and after leaving a copy with the customer, they forward the customer orders by mail or fax to the sales department in Sydney, where the orders are entered into the sales database and
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• Sales representatives do not know the latest inventory position of their products when they accept orders from the customer. Delays in delivery can result when orders are placed on “back-order” because of a lack of stock.
• Orders are often “lost” or entered into the sales database incorrectly through human error.
• The sales representatives and many customers are dissatisfied with the current situation.
Competitive wine companies have improved their order systems and are outperforming Grand Wines Ltd in terms of delivery speed, order accuracy, availability of ordered stock and overall customer satisfaction. Your CEO has stressed the importance of the project to the company and asked you to use your skills as a project manager to make sure the project is successful by following the relevant project management processes. You have been assigned a project leader of this project. Your manager has given you guidance that the project needs to be completed within 6 months and that costs should be minimised wherever possible with given budget of AUD 60000.00.
The ordering process begins with the decision of the customer to submit their order simply by either calling, faxing or mailing their order information. When a customer calls in their order, the customer service representatives takes down pertinent customer information, which includes the customer's name, billing and shipping address, product number and description, quantity and shipping instructions. While taking down the order, the customer service representative access the company's order entry system where inventory checks are conducted as well as credit checks are processed. In addition, delivery options are advised to the customer. Here the customer decides
provide an automated, customer-accessible ordering system (which allows customer to track products ordered in transit),
The purchase order is the root to the problems in the plant that morning. Peach is incredibly upset because the order is not only seven weeks late but the order 41427 is for one of the biggest clients of the plant. Rogo starts to see the issue on page 3 of our text when Peach sits down and tells him the customer had complained very angrily the night before. Promising the customer his word he set out to disrupt the plant this morning to get the order shipped out. According to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution a purchase order is a “legally binding document between a supplier and a buyer. It details the items the buyer agrees to purchase at a certain price point. It also outlines the delivery date and terms of payment for the buyer.” The reason the purchase order is so important is because it keeps track of what was bought and the agreement the company has with the buyer. When the agreement is not met like a late delivery it has cause to make the buyer upset such as our buyer in the
Anheuser-Busch is one of the largest selling beer companies in the world, selling both Budweiser and Bud Light. Anheuser-Busch operates twelve different breweries in the United States alone. With being this big means that they should get their products to restaurants, grocery stores, and gas stations in a proper and easy manner. While Anheuser-Busch did actually face a few problems of SKU proliferation and an increasing number of network delivery points, Dematic developed the Automated Order Fulfillment System to improve inbound, work order, and outbound processing. This solution increased the bulk shipment volume and eliminated delivery routes, which saved time on route delivery time and decreasing order picking labor.
• Prepare a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper that adds to the project begun last week. Check to ensure the project’s triple constrains are still valid. Address the following items in your paper: o Phase I – Update SOWa. • Using the SOW from last week, review and update it based on course material acquired during the last week. Include in the update the SMART requirements for the project. 1) • Identify the specific tasks required to complete each item listed on the SOW. Identify the resources required to accomplish each task.2) o Phase II – Project Schedule and Budget Update b. • Arrange the tasks into a schedule that takes into consideration the required dependencies between tasks. Computerized project management software is required. 1) • Present the schedule in either PERT or Gantt chart format. Identify the critical path through the network. 2) • Review the network results and compare to the project’s triple constraint. Specifically compare the following: 3) o Timing o Budget o Project specifications (scope and SMART)
What is your project going to accomplish? How does this project relate to overall goals and objectives of the company? It is part of a program or larger project? Currently the City of Dallas has embarked on an endeavor to upgrade the city’s parks and recreation centers. Our goal is improve the overall safety and to design unique park or recreation center that reflect the culture of the residents who live in the area. Our Project Managers will assist you with planning, organizing, coordinating, leading, and controlling resources to deliver a state of the art
Customers may delay the arrival of products because of a weak supply chain of Yum Brands Inc's. Unnecessary delays, the long run will make the customer cancel their orders and this will negatively affect Yum Brands Inc. Yum food is heavily dependent on the supplier and they have no power over.
Question 1. What project selection method described in the chapter will ABI probably employ for this proposal? Answer According to the description, the project selection method is profitability of numeric model. We might see the points from the business strategy 1) Bid only on good margin products that have the potential for maintaining their margins over a long term. 2) Pursue only new products. 3) Utilize the most advanced technology in new projects. “ project champion” approach to innovation and creativity. no more than 480 employees. 4) Foster the
Being the present manager and being appointed by the government at the feasibility stage I am asked to write a report in order to outline the activities required to successfully manage this major project and to ensure that it is completed on time and within budget.
Even though the price would be lowered because of the bad weather as per the tying in price and weather policy, not everyone would still want to go away. Either it needs to be explained clearly on the website that undesirable weather will not entitle any customer to a refund or to change or cancel their booking without penalty; or the policy must be clear in whatever the company decides is fair. For example, it may state that if the weather is unpleasant can change (but not cancel) the booking to another time.
4. During which month of the project are the highest and lowest costs expected to
• who will be responsible for planning and management of project operations as well as the roles of other bodies and organizations associated with the project
This chapter gives an overview on the project management structure that was used to ensure the project success in meeting with its set out goals and objectives and in finding an answer to the set project research question.
The VP of marketing, Lori, selected Elliot Wood as the project manager for the Video Game Market Research Project. Elliot had previous project management and market research experience within the company, and he also was an avid video game enthusiast. He still had the Atari system he used to play in high school, and he enjoyed playing newer games with his two children. Elliot, however, was wary of doing business on the Internet and refused to make any of his own purchases online. He also did not let his grade school children use the Internet unless they were
Project Requirement: As per project requirement as a team we need to select a project based on different criteria like timing of project, complexity, probability of success and enjoyment of team. We need to execute the project as per the project management methodology and prepare different documents during life cycle of the project starting from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control and closure. One of the team member has to take leadership role of project manager and guide the team during project execution. At the end of semester we need to submit a project notebook with detailed summary of project and different documents generated during project.