Planning, Scheduling & Programming Discussion

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Dear forum members,

I recently got assigned the task of program management for one of our business sectors.

What is required of me is firstly to have a complete overview of what was done, when and where. And this is also where I am stuck. It is safe to say that this is my first job as project or program manager/planner.

Background: Our company performs dimentional quality control and analysis in the automotive industry. In this instance it is for plastic fuel containers. We have multiple companies requesting our services, and within each company multiple factories.

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Procurement Problem

Dear Planners,

I am establishing an EPC Schedule for a water supply project contains 81 Km pipeline and three tanks. For the tanks there are a lot of mechnical items to be procured, what is the best way to include those items in the schedule? I am thinking to include it as one activity rather than include it item by item?

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Moutaz

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Finding activity duration with limited information and time given

Question:Im a student and I wanted to know if its possible to find the activity durations if you know the type of materials that will be used in the project, but dont have their estimates and then dividing it from the productivity to get the durations. I know that you can find durations using company database from past projects. Is there some sort of online databse that you can use to search similar projects to get an idea of the durations? 

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Bill Of Quantity

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i have a problem in primavera, How to seperated the bill of quantity units and generate the monthly report.

ex :

Earth work in Filling units -3800265 cum and rate 233 rs per cum for two years

How to divide the the units (Material (Earth) + labour(Labours )+non labour(Equipments used)) Is der any ratio of seperation in that

Please help me in seperation of the quantity.

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A new White Paper with a succinct definition of the project controls function can be downloaded from: http://www.mosaicprojects.com.au/WhitePapers/WP1093_Project_Controls.pdf

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