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Planning & Expediting Services
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Project Management
Today project management is much more a science than an art. The discipline and logic of project management is critical to efficient resource utilization. Project Team Members are usually part-timers, with other commitments to ongoing day-to-day business.
ProjDel will enhance your teams project management efforts, which, in turn will free up your subject matter experts to focus more time on technical issues, while ensuring smoother, more efficient management of project execution. ProjDel offers the following services:
- Develop and implement project management business systems
- Set up and run projects hands on
- Interface & negotiate with customer & subcontractors
- Organize project teams
- Establish project team roles & responsibilities
- Develop, standardize and manage project execution plans
- Build and implement project budgeting & cost control programs
- Establish and implement systems to monitor and control project performance
- Coordinate factory acceptance testing
- Develop and implement a system of critical path scheduling
- Establish and implement a project status reporting system
Technical Writing
As the team’s technical resource, ProjDel provides comprehensive and fast-turnaround technical writing services.
- Operations and Maintenance manuals
- Technical specifications
- Repair procedures
- Emergency procedures and plans
- Scopes of work
- Funding justification backup
- Technical office procedures
- Documentation of Fabrication Logistics
- Documentation of test procedures (Factory & Field)
- Installation and startup procedures
- Documentation of Packaging specifications
- Documentation of Maintenance procedures
- Work process instructions
Procurement
As the team moves from planning to secure its resources to support implementation, ProjDel will enhance the team’s efficiency and productivity. We will:
- Provide support in the overall procurement effort, where needed
- Perform procurement workflow analysis and improvement
- Develop or improve procurement procedures or guidelines
- Effect procurement change order controls
- Create or improve methods to control owner furnished goods
- Analyze and improve requisitioning process
- Develop standardized requests for proposal
- Establish system for workflow tracking
Supplier Management
ProjDel will improve the team’s ability to efficiently manage suppliers and vendors to radically impact the team’s success. ProjDel will:
- Develop and implement supplier management programs
- Establish and implement "point of contact" procedures
- Develop systems to administer document or specification clarifications or questions
- Setup methods to address requests for concessions or deviation
- Implement methods to control and administer all associated documentation and communication with suppliers
- Create a standardized format to identify all supplier data requirements
- Establish methods to monitor and control the supplier’s sub-suppliers
- Develop contract clauses for supplier progress management
- Prequalify suppliers
- Setup supplier surveillance systems
- Source and coordinate surveillance services
- Establish methods to liaise with third party design and construction certification agencies and other relevant parties
- Standardize kick-off meeting agendas and check-off lists
- Establish methods to administer, document and control:
- Establish procedures for receiving inspection of materials and traceability
Process Improvement
The efficiency with which your business is run can be key to its success. However, the procedures and mindsets of the people running the organization may not always reflect the most current best practices. ProjDel can improve overall efficiency. ProjDel will:
- Analyze the factors affecting how your business is run, including the business climate, culture, technical workflow, personnel qualifications, and customer-supplier relationships.
- Review the roles and responsibilities of the personnel
- Recommend and implement strategies to improve or introduce new business practices
- Implement the recommendations
- Monitor and report on the effectiveness of the changes and recommend additional strategies if necessary
Facility Assessments
ProjDel assessments support a variety of client requirements, to include: base line information/criteria for master planning, planning/programming for renovations and/or new construction, and operations and maintenance deficiencies. We also conduct facility assessments in support of natural disaster response teams, such as occurred following Hurricane Hugo.
ProjDel is tasked to organized, multi-disciplinary team of engineering personnel which may include the following disciplines: mechanical; electrical; structural; fire protection; architectural; hazardous environmental engineers; and professional planning personnel.
Facility Assessment categories may include:
- Field/site investigations
- Deferred maintenance
- Utility systems deficiencies
- Code violations
- ADA compliance (handicap code)
- Communications systems deficiencies
- Asbestos/hazardous materials
- Structural integrity
- Need for renovation or construction
- Indoor air quality, and code compliance.
Typical Reports include:
- Listing and description of buildings, systems, equipment, etc. with description of identified deficiencies;
- CAD drawings/as-builts for cross-referencing the narrative report and to assist in identifying the location of the deficiency;
- Recommendations for actions to correct identified deficiencies;
- Associated costs estimates to accomplish the recommended corrective actions.
Startup Management
ProjDel will plan and manage your business startup or relocation to reduce the overall disruption to your operation and improve the transition from your current site into a new site. ProjDel will:
- Work with the operations staff to qualify new equipment and train personnel on new procedures.
- Work with owners to develop detailed plans and budgets covering a move or new build
- Specify and obtain quotations for new furniture and office equipment
- Select a mover and negotiate a moving contract
- Coordinate and manage the movement of all office, warehouse and factory equipment
- Coordinate logistics associated with moving computer networks, including providing IT professionals to assist in the move, develop a new network or reconnect an existing network
- Manage the movement or transfer or telecommunication equipment and services and provide a necessary personnel training.
- Handle logistics associated with the Internet, E-mail and Web Hosting Services
- Set up accounts with utilities
- Manage any building construction, where applicable.
Training
ProjDel will provide on-site project management training. Our Concepts and Methods courses include:
- Definitions and Terms used in Project Management
- Roles and Responsibilities - Project Manager, Project Sponsor, Team members
- Phases of Project Management
- Critical Path Concepts
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Task Relationships
- Risk Management
- Resource Management
- Issues Management and Escalation
- Establishing the Project Baseline
- Communicating the Project Plan
- Tracking and Managing the Project
- Managing Scope Changes
- Optimizing the Project Plan
- Post Project Plan Reviews
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