Executive Solution Overview
Each DB 200 words minimum and at least 1 credible reference 1. This week, as the project manager for International Logistics Services, you are starting to form the project team. An employee who works on the loading dock recently earned the Project Management Institute’s Certified Associate Project …
Assignment Prompt & Instructions
Each DB 200 words minimum and at least 1 credible reference
1. This week, as the project manager for International Logistics Services, you are starting to form the project team. An employee who works on the loading dock recently earned the Project Management Institute’s Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) designation. The employee wants to join your project team. However, the loading dock supervisor has not approved this assignment. The loading dock supervisor indicated that resources on the loading dock are already constrained and has expressed a lack of support to change warehouse operations.
Develop a negotiation strategy to obtain the loading dock supervisor’s cooperation with your project and specifically to assign the employee to the project team.
2. As the project manager for ILS, several of your project team members do not comprehend the value of a WBS to manage the Logistics Services Improvement Project. Assess the importance of the WBS. Explain your assessment of the WBS to your project team, using an audio-narrated presentation containing three PowerPoint slides. (I will do the audio).
3. This week, the business development manager for ILS (your project management case study) returned from a meeting with Walmart. Walmart and Proctor & Gamble successfully pioneered the use of vendor managed inventory (VMI),
The VMI concept enables the vendor or manufacturer to use the retailer's data to decide on the timing and quantity of restocking store shelves up to a certain maximum. During the meeting, Walmart suggested that ILS might implement a VMI on their behalf. This would require ILS to develop a system and a process to obtain Walmart's data and assume responsibility for ordering product from the various vendors and shipping to Walmart, ensuring no stock-outs without exceeding the maximum. The business development manager suggests adding this requirement to the scope of the Logistics Services Improvement project.
On the one hand, this is an opportunity for innovation that could ultimately reduce ongoing costs for Walmart and allow ILS to earn additional revenue. On the other hand, this new requirement would add risk to the project, as ILS would need to address several fundamental issues. In addition, ILS would need to develop information technology and processes that would integrate with Walmart on the outbound side and on the inbound side with Walmart’s suppliers. A rough estimate indicates an additional project investment of $75,000. Finally, ILS has not yet secured Walmart’s business, though the two companies have worked together in other countries and have a good relationship.
Tomorrow, the director of logistics services (DLS), the business development manager, and you will discuss the proposed change to the project scope. As the project manager, prepare for the meeting by providing a bulleted list of at least three opportunities and at least three threats to new requirements being added this late in the planning stage.
Your initial response should be a minimum of 200 words. at least 1 credible resource.
3.2 As the project manager, design a project quality management plan that relates to the inherited issues stated in the Project Management Case Study—Logistics Improvement Project. From your studies in prior classes, also consider how this project to deliver more alignment with Walmart without exceeding the budget of $100,000 or extending the schedule could address Walmart’s needs. The project management quality plan should also enable ILS’s commitment to CSR. Your design plan should be a minimum of 200 words.
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