Project management for relocation of the beverage plant

Abstract

This thesis is a study on project management for relocation the beverage plant in order to proposed the project planning and control procedure system. The structure of project management including project planning, project organization, scheduling, cost management, resource allocation, project expedition and project control. Project planning involve 7 steps which are 1. Establish objectives 2. Define the required activities 3. Divide the activity into work groups 4. Construct the work breakdown structure 5. The action plan 6. Draw sub-diagrams 7. Develop the project planning (arrow) diagram. The pure project organization is suitable for this situation because project manager has full line authority over the project and pure organization generate the simple and flexible structure to all member of project team. The methods in project operation are divide in three step which are: identify the activities of project, project scheduling and project budgeting. The identification of each activity can be divided into workgroup which are: 1. Procurement. This department responsible for providing the convenience to other departments. 2. Engineering. This department responsible for take off and remove the production lines and water treatment system. 3. Transportation. This department responsible for transport the production lines and water treatment system to another factory. 4. Area preparation. This department responsible for the preparing the utility for the new production lines. 5. Installation. This department responsible for installation the production lines and water treatment system. The scheduling of this project take 57 working days to complete by using the activity network diagram analysis while project budgeting calculation from the labor cost, material price and estimated subcontract price. Befor using the Microsoft project, project manager take a long time to gathering, planning and analyzing the project plan with activity network diagram. After using Microsoft project computer program project manager can analyze the data information especially the decision to expedite project and create problem solution when controlling the project with monitoring tool. The monitoring tool such as the progress line provide the overall project status and assist the project manager to compare each activity to entire project. Microsoft project computer program reduces time consuming and providing the accurate analysis for project manager.