This training module sets out essential concepts and skills relating to the ability to use project management tools and software to prepare project plans and monitor projects – including the planning and management of time, cost, tasks and resources in the logistics sector.
At the end of the training, participants will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to:
- Understand the key concepts relating to planning and managing projects
- Use Microsoft Project to create and maintain projects.
- Create and schedule tasks, with project constraints and deadlines clearly defined.
- Assign costs, create and assign resources to tasks accurately.
- View the critical paths, monitor progress and reschedule work accordingly.
- Prepare and print outputs, including charts and reports.
COURSE MODULE
Module 1: An introduction to Logistics Project Management Planning with MS Project
Module 2: Defining a Project
- Creating a complex project
- Adding tasks
- Creating multiple links
- The logic of linking
Module 3: Project Details & Resources
- Defining a project calendar
- Understanding constraints
- Resolving constraints and scheduling conflicts
- Define project resources
- Create resource calendars
Module 4: Project Execution
- Concept – Baseline vs Actual
- Status Dates & Tracking Project
- Task completion & overall project completion
Module 5: Delays
- Project delays
- Multiple baselines
- Correcting project delays
- Fast tracking a project
- Resolving task & resource conflicts
Module 6: Presentation
- Project presentations: visual & printed
- Exporting project data
- Sharing project data