Planning and Scheduling Management

Plan and Execute Projects with Confidence

Many organizations have hundreds—even thousands—of projects underway at any given time. These projects cross normal business hierarchies and chains of command, making project management an organization-wide challenge. The P6 Planning and Scheduling functionality enables power users manage the entire project lifecycle from Project Initiation to Project Closeout. It provides multi-user, multi-project functionality, with scheduling and resource control capabilities, support for multi-tiered project hierarchies, resource scheduling, capturing of actual data, customizable views, and the ability to extend functionality based on user-definable data.

Solution Capabilities

Centralized Project Repository	With all projects are in a centralized database, the robust security module protects project data and offers flexibility when determining who can access each project.
Enterprise Project Structure & Codes	A configurable Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) helps forms the hierarchical structure of the projects based on your organizational needs. Extensible Project Codes help capture different attributes of projects, such as the region where the project is being executed or the type of project
Cross-project Analysis and Reporting	Quickly and easily create cross-project dependencies and see how projects impact one another. Built-in analysis shows whether resources are over- or under-allocated across projects
CPM Scheduling	P6 provides Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling, which uses the activity durations, relationships between activities and calendars to calculate a schedule for the project. CPM identifies the critical path of activities, those activities that affect the completion date for the project or an intermediate deadline, and if delayed will delay the finish of the project.
Float Path Analysis	Float Path Analysis identifies all critical paths within a project to help avoid potential delays before they occur and to help visualize an activity's importance to overall project plan.
Master Program Integration	Multiple companies can collaborate and work together on execution of a project or program.
Cross-Project Dependencies	Cross-project dependencies helps to monitor overall critical path of the program and reduces the risk of multiple parties working together.
Reflection Process	The Reflection Process compares the status updates received from various sources to identify potential issues or delays that will impact the overall program.
Resource Assignments	When project resources needs have been determined, they can easily be assigned to the schedule activities. P6 tracks labor, material, equipment and expense needs for activities and WBS nodes.
Resource Leveling	Resource leveling helps ensure that sufficient resources are available to perform the activities in the project plan.
ERP or Accounting Integration	The P6 architecture allows for integration with ERP or Accounting Systems so that schedule and cost information can be shared.
Baseline Management	Store unlimited versions of the schedule, resources and cost assignments to compare how the project is progressing vs. the original plan vs. the last update cycle, vs. 6 months ago, etc.
Graphics	Effectively communicate project information through rich graphics that may be grouped, filtered and formatted in unlimited ways Graphics include: Gantt Charts, Histograms, Activity Network Diagrams, Spreadsheets, Bar Charts, S-Curves, Time-scaled Logic Diagrams and Organizational Charts.
Report Writer	Create highly customized reports with the built-in Report Writer. Use the Report Editor to add, edit and organize report components, specify font styles and add images, headers and footers and comments.

 

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