Project Management for Onsite Catering at Vedanta

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Project Objectives........................................................................................................................3
Stakeholder Register....................................................................................................................4
Assumptions and Constraints......................................................................................................4
Scope............................................................................................................................................5
Work Breakdown Structure.........................................................................................................5
Scheduling...................................................................................................................................5
Budget..........................................................................................................................................6
Communication Plan...................................................................................................................7
Risk Analysis...............................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Vedanta Resources Limited, the global leader in metal and mining industry, has always
been an extensively employee friendly company where they have always strived to give
maximum degree of comfort and satisfaction to their employees and therefore, the management
has always tried to incorporate innovation and development in the services and flexibility that
they design for their employees. Currently, the human resource managers of the company have
identified that there is increasing number of complaints that the workers in the mining areas have
to travel back and fro to the canteen in a one hour break and their time gets wasted. There has
been increased number of complaints in this regard and therefore, the project managers have
been tasked by the Board of Directors to develop a project management plan for Onsite Catering
where the lunch will be provided to the workers nearby the site at which they are working and
this will save their relaxation time. In this report, various aspects of this project have been
identified and discussed.
MAIN BODY
Project Objectives
The goal of the Vedanta has always been to provide good quality assets that are superior
in development and have been developed in a sustainable manner without compromising with
the environment. They also focus keenly in the satisfaction if the employee that is working in
their organisation and understand that they are the most important asset in the organisation.
Therefore, development of the project of Onsite Catering in the sites of the company will lead to
increased employee satisfaction as they will be able to relax more in the one hour lunch time that
they get and then work more dedicatedly thus yielding greater results.
In Vedanta, the managers have developed Key Performance Indicators where they have
developed different performance measurement standards for the Time, Cost and Quality of the
project that is to be undertaken (Binder, 2016). For ensuring that the project gets completed
within the allotted timeline, there are a variety of indicators such as actual time versus estimated
time, percentage of work done on time, cycle time, time spent as per calendar days etc. In order
to ensure that the project gets completed within the allocated budgeted amount, the KPIs
involved are Budget Variance, Cost Performance Index, Budget revision time, number of budget
iterations etc. and lastly, the quality indicators are Customer satisfaction levels, Number of
errors, consumer complaints, net promoter score etc. Amongst all the three major attributes of

the project management plan, the one attribute that will be mainly focused upon by the project
managers of Vedanta is the time factor i.e. they will ensure that there is no compromise with the
time aspect since they want to implement this project as soon as it is possible in the company.
Stakeholder Register
There are two major categories into which the stakeholders of the project can be classified i.e.
internal stakeholder and external stakeholder.
The internal key stakeholders in the project management for the current project of
Vedanta company are: Project manager who will lead the project, Project Team Members who
will actually execute the project of onsite catering, Steering Committee that acts as the advisory
committee for this onsite catering project, executives that include the top management in the
company and resource managers who ensure and control the amount of resources that are
required and the ones that are being used in the organisation (Walker, 2015) so that unnecessary
cost is not involved.
The external stakeholders of Vedanta for the current project include the sponsors and
investors of the project who are financing the entire project, suppliers and contractors who are
responsible for supplying the key material and sources that are required for this current project of
onsite catering and government agencies that will regulate the project.
Assumptions and Constraints
Constraints include those factors that act as the limitations or boundaries for the project
manager i.e. beyond this the project cannot operate. The biggest constraint for this project is that
this has to be in compliance with the various laws related to the use of commercial land and
property for other purposes and another is meeting the ISO standard that states that all the
practices should be done in a sustainable manner. The various agreements are entered into here
and organisational policies will be formed accordingly (Harrison and Lock, 2017). Since the
Vedanta Company is planning to build up onsite catering for its workers, it is legally within the
boundaries and limits of the company.
Assumptions on the other hand include the various factors which are assumed that they
will incur in the manner that the manager thinks is correct and has been going on for example
easy and regular availability of particular raw materials can be the assumption for a project
manager in the current project of onsite catering. For Vedanta, it has been assumed that the
caterers will be able to provide food and other requirement to the mining workers in the same