Project Manager

A project is defined as a customer delivery commitment or a series of commitments, which may require the coordination and assembly of dozens or hundreds of purchased and manufactured parts and other activities.

The Goal of Project Manager is to:

• Provide a consolidated view of all related project activities.
• Maintain purchase orders and inventory by project.
• Improve utilization of key resources.
• Improve on-time delivery.
• Provide the ability to track and improve project profitability.

Project Manager graphically displays all: manufacturing shop orders; outside vendor processing orders; raw material, component and sub-assembly purchase orders; and other engineering or development tasks related to delivering on a customer commitment. See Example Project Plan »

Project Manager has several powerful capabilities, including the ability to:

• Display graphically the interrelationships and statuses of the various orders in one or more projects.
• Capture status updates from routine manufacturing and project task transactions.
• Quickly identify and prioritize schedule exceptions (order/task started late, is behind schedule, finished late) across all projects.
• See the loads on shared resources from all projects.
• Quickly identify orders/tasks causing an overload on a key resource.
• See, on-line, the effect of rescheduling a task on the load of a key resource.
• Access to the program over local network or via the internet.
• Allow a manufacturer’s customers, with security, to monitor their projects’ schedule status, also via the internet.