project scheduling

[appy1]

I am working on project where all plant departments (electrical, mechnical maint) are involved and also some jobs such as erection and trial run is performed by Vendors and technolgy suppliers.
Now my question is it is diificult to coordinate each activities. For fast track project start-up we need to order some of the things and ask some of the vendors to start the work on respective dates however due to some unavoidable circumstances we colud not prepare ourselves and vendors are sittiong ideally and charging money. Whats the best aproach to this situation and how to avoid such thing
All answres are welcome!!

 

[Montemayor]

Apply1:

I don't know your experience level, but I would suspect you've been exposed - by now - to "Springtime" (La Primavera, in Spanish or Italian). Surely you've had team meetings and inter-discipline planning. A coordinator, or "scheduler", who organizes and runs the daily Primavera program (or another simular computer program) is usually the person in charge of monitoring and "controling" the schedule. How much authority the scheduler and how the controls are applied is up to the engineering group or company involved.

Another popular computer program employed for much smaller projects is Microsoft's Project. I've worked with both and am surprised you haven't mentioned your awareness of these programs.

That's the way the system works.

 

[abeltio]

if the vendors are sitting idle and charging money maybe is time to sit down with them and negotiate.

the delays are already there and no programming is going to fix that.

if the vendors have a long term interest with your company more likely than not they will try not to kill... otherwise they are jeopardizing future contracts.

if the vendors are one time only... you are pretty much at their mercy.

by the way... what mr. montemayor mentioned should have happened like 12 up to 36 months ago... depending on the size of the project. now is too late.

good luck.


saludos.
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