INF70005: Amazon Warehouse Construction Project Plan in Woolloongabba

This report outlines a project management plan for constructing a warehouse for Amazon in Woolloongabba, Queensland, addressing the need for improved product delivery to consumers in the area. The report justifies the project by highlighting its potential to enhance productivity, expand business opportunities, and minimize risks. It includes a project outline, objectives, scope, deliverables, constraints, and assumptions, along with a Gantt chart illustrating the project schedule and critical path. Furthermore, the report details resource requirements, cost estimation, human resource plan, stakeholder management plan, communication management plan, risk assessment plan, quality strategies, and a control and monitoring plan to ensure the successful implementation of the warehouse project.

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Project Management: Warehouse Construction at Woolloongabba, Queensland for Amazon"
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Executive Summary
This report reflects the role of developing warehouse for Amazon in Woolloongabba. It has been
found that due to lack of warehouse in that particular location Amazon fails to deliver necessary
and desired products to the consumers. In order to construct the warehouse professional work
packages are needed to be developed by the researcher. For the successful construction
responsibilities of the stakeholders are also illustrated in this report. In addition to this, other
stakeholders management, risk management, procurement management, communication
management plans are also elaborated in this report

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction describing Amazon and the markets where it operates...........................................3
1.1 Justification of the need for the proposed Project.................................................................5
2. Ideas generated for the project.....................................................................................................6
2.1 Identification of the way through which these were addresses and screened relative to the
consumers need and organizational goal.....................................................................................6
3. Framework to justify the demand of the project..........................................................................7
4. Project management plan.............................................................................................................8
4.1 Project outline and the reason for which it is proposed.........................................................8
4.2 Brief description of the company: Amazon...........................................................................8
4.3 Reasons for which this project is considered.........................................................................9
4.4 Project details.........................................................................................................................9
4.4.1 Objectives.......................................................................................................................9
4.4.2 Scope...............................................................................................................................9
4.4.3 Deliverables....................................................................................................................9
4.4.4 Constraints....................................................................................................................10
4.4.5 Assumptions.................................................................................................................11
4.5 Project schedule (Gantt chart) highlighting the critical path...............................................12
4.6 Resource requirements and detailed resource schedule.......................................................15
4.7 Project cost estimation.........................................................................................................16
4.8 Human Resource plan..........................................................................................................18
4.9 Stakeholder management plan.............................................................................................19
4.10 Communication management plan....................................................................................20
4.11 Risk assessment plan.........................................................................................................20
4.12 Quality strategies...............................................................................................................21
4.13 Control and monitoring plan..............................................................................................22
References......................................................................................................................................23

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1. Introduction describing Amazon and the markets where it operates
This report depicts the positive impact of developing rather construction a warehouse for
Amazon, in at Woolloongabba, Queensland. Woolloongabba is comprises of a cricket ground,
hospital and necessary transports facilities also. However, due to the frequently growing
population and demand of the consumers a warehouse is going to be constructed in
Woolloongabba, Brisbane. In order to develop the project for Amazon all necessary project
management components are accordingly considered (Yu 2017). It is the responsibility of the
project development team to consider all the factors appropriately to avoid operational and
functional conflicts.
Figure 1: Organizational structure of Amazon

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(Source: Corbato et al. 2018, pp-110)
Amazon is world’s one of the largest E-commerce based company which has successful
operational and functional abilities. Not only from the E-commerce aspect but also for logistics,
payments, hardware, data storage and media Amazon is very famous. The business decisions
developed by the executives for the company are developed based on Flywheel philosophy.
According to the flywheel decision Amazon can encapsulate the dual ambitions comprises of
conquering the commercial world and consumer obsessed (Sharbatoghlie and Sepehri 2015). The
company its journey in the year of 1997 and it never has to look behind, till 2015 the net income
of the company has exceeded $140 Billion. Amazon has the biggest shopping history to the
consumers and its income rate increases per year.
Amazon is one of the most well-known logistic companies which include around 180
warehouses about 28 sorting centers and also about 59 local delivery stations. The facility and
operation management approach used by Amazon helps it to gain effective success and wide
market revenue throughout. Over 2 cores product are available for Amazon (Robinson, et al.
2015). The business of Amazon is widening everyday thus an accurate warehouse should be
developed by the company so that it can operate in Woolloongabba also. In order to develop the
project a schedule, risk management approach, procurement plan, communication management,
stakeholder management plan are developed and demonstrated in this report. It is expected that
in order to construct the warehouse for increasing the commercial profit, these components
should be maintained accordingly.

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1.1 Justification of the need for the proposed Project
For the manufacturers there were always intense level pressures for increasing the
productivity at a lower cost. It has been found that, for managing storage, distribution and
procurement with increased rate of productivity and production workflow the best way is to
design a warehouse (Schwalbe 2015). This particular proposed project is absolutely justified due
to the following criteria:
 It gives production level support
 It expands the business opportunities
 Packing and processing become easier
 It helps to spot stocking
 Gives financial profit with a price stabilization
 Minimized the business level risks and provides high security to the data storage
2. Ideas generated for the project
Woolloongabba is a located in Brisbane but consumer who belongs to that location is
unable to get the service of Amazon like other countries. In order to give similar opportunities to
the consumers by delivering desired products with quality ant time, this particular project is
proposed.
2.1 Identification of the way through which these were addresses and screened
relative to the consumers need and organizational goal
It is expected that with the implementation of the project the bunch of issues facing by
the company will be completely minimized. The modern design of warehouse provides many

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positive outcomes of the consumers. Modern warehouse is much beneficial even beyond the
simple storage solution (Hornstein 2015). It can increase the diversification for suppliers,
logistics as well as for enterprise models also. Warehouse is capable to serve accessibility,
flexibility and effective functional abilities. Warehouse is pertinent to provide value and quality
service to the consumers. With quality functionalities of warehouse the business will be able to
grab large number of consumers throughout the world.
Warehouse gives huge storage with high security factors. It takes care of the information
confidentiality with additional updated new technologies. Amazon also has many secret
employees. The distribution ability of the business organization improves simultaneously with
the warehouse (Dwivedula, Bredillet and Müller 2015). Warehouse management system save
space and also enhances the satisfaction level of the consumers accordingly. The inventory
management system, worker’s productivity increases a lot with order fulfillment. Warehouse acts
as a catalyst in business operations and can eventually meet the consumers requirements (Dong
2017). Moreover, it can be said that the rate of real world saving and catalyst at the bottom line
also improved accordingly.
It has been found that, the ideas generated from the warehouse project that is going to be
designed for Amazon can benefit the organization in terms of goals, finance and capacity all
together.
3. Framework to justify the demand of the project
Data warehouse is referred to as a central information repository that can be analyzed for
making better informed decisions. From a transactional system the information, relational
database and sources can flow into the data warehouse. Through the help of Business

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Intelligence (BI), analytical application and other SQL clients the business analysts will be able
to access data (Ahern, Leavy and Byrne 2014.). In order to stay completely competitive in nature
the data and the analytics have become indispensible in nature. For extracting insight from the
data, business performance and accurate support decision making every business uses reports,
dashboards and analytical tools simultaneously. Although the reports, dashboard and the
analytics tools, powered by the data warehouse (Chan 2015). Besides this, data warehouse can
store data very much efficiently which minimizes the input output actions of the data also
delivers query results accordingly.
Data warehouse is a three tire architecture where the bottom tier is comprises of database
server which basically act as the data server or storage. The middle tier of the architecture is the
analytics engine which is used for analyzing and accessing data. On the other hand, the top tier
of the warehouse architecture presents the result of the total application through proper report,
data mining tool and analysis (Hernandez et al. 2016). In order to describe the layout for
different types of data warehouse are required as it has the ability to describe and organize data
accordingly. Different query tools are available there which are described by the schemes (Joslin
and Müller 2015). Above all these it can be said that in order to manage large of data warehouse
is necessary to the designed in Brisbane. In order to give commercial buying opportunity to the
consumers of Woolloongabba, implementation of this project is very much important.
4. Project management plan
4.1 Project outline and the reason for which it is proposed
Though Amazon is world’s one of the largest well known online shopping center but still
due to lack of warehouses they are failing to deliver products to the consumers of

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Woolloongabba, near Brisbane. In order to gain competitive advantages and high to give tough
competition to other online shopping centers a warehouse for Amazon is proposed to develop in
Woolloongabba.
4.2 Brief description of the company: Amazon
Amazon online shopping centre which is formally known as the Cadabra Inc is
headquartered in Seattle Washington. This is one of the largest electronic internet based retailer
giant service providers. The business started on 1997 and then expanded gradually.
Collaboration, technical partnership, visionary leadership and continuous investments on the
logistics have helped the company to gain effective commercial success (Marcelino-Sadaba et al.
2014). Amazon mobile application allows the users to access the website regardless of their
location and time. It implies that the users will be able to book for their desired products. The
products ranges also do not have any boundary. Starting from the fashion, accessories, food
products, kitchen, home appliances, electronic goods everything consumers can avail from the
online shopping store (Lock 2014). The network distribution center of Amazon is very strong but
still due to absence of warehouse that are failing to deliver products to the consumers of
Woolloongabba. Even the sizes of the warehouse are also vast enough.
4.3 Reasons for which this project is considered
Amazon has small, large fulfillment centers, specialty sites, and consumers return centers
also. Based on the location of delivery or delivery destination the changes for products delivery
are added. For Woolloongabba this delivery charge is very high. In order to balance this
particular cost a warehouse is suggested to open in Woolloongabba for Amazon.

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4.4 Project details
4.4.1 Objectives
 To identify the current delivery and data management oriented issues facing by
Amazon in Woolloongabba
 To develop a data warehouse for Amazon in Woolloongabba
 To prepare a schedule considering project constraints and assumptions
4.4.2 Scope
The scope of the project is to identify the current situation of the organization and the
market where is particular organization operates. After identifying the situational issues for
Amazon a data warehouse will be developed and in order to develop the project an accurate
schedule should be prepared. It is expected that, with proper project scheduling the issues of
management and marketing in Woolloongabba will be completely minimized. The necessary
technical constraints and the limitation that may interrupt the project success are also required to
be identified. In order to develop the warehouse proper technical support in terms of hardware,
software license are to be considered. In addition to this the project milestones taken for this
project are project ignition phase. Design phase, construction site selection phase and project
closure phase.
4.4.3 Deliverables
The deliverables of the project is to create a data warehouse for Amazon in
Woolloongabba. However, for developing this warehouse appropriate risk management plan,
communication plan, quality management plan, resource management plan, stakeholder

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management plan, human resource management plans are also to be delivered. The project
schedule will highlight the critical path also.
Besides all theses in order to complete the project successfully a project control and
monitoring plan is also developed for this warehouse designing project.
4.4.4 Constraints
All projects are carried out with the help of certain constraints. Each of the constraint
designs the vertices with a central basis theme. After analyzing the detail requirements and
features of this particular project it has been found that triples constraints in terms of cost, scope
and time are to be considered appropriately.
Figure 2: Project Triple constraints
(Source: Jeamwatthanachai, Wald and Wills 2016, pp -94)
For implementing this project total $107,408 cost is needed and for incorporating all the
project requirements 2.5 years will be enough. Simultaneously, it can also be said that budget,
time, cost and quality can together meet the expectation of the consumers. The central theme for
this particular project includes the following:

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 Project must be completed within cost $107,408
 Project should be completed within 2.5 years
 Project should reach the esteemed project scope
 Project should have to be completed based on the requirements of the customers
4.4.5 Assumptions
It is assumed that project will be able to resolve the issues of the consumers in terms of
quality, delivery and security. Amazon serves over 2 crore of different products but due to
logistics issues they are unable to deliver products as per the requirements of the consumers of
Woolloongabba. In order to design a warehouse for Amazon in Woolloongabba, a general
framework that is designed is given below:
Figure 3: General warehouse planning process
(Source: Created by author)
4.5 Project schedule (Gantt chart) highlighting the critical path
In order to reduce the work pressure from the project manager and other project team
members assigned the project scheduler has developed a project schedule showing the total
duration of 555 days.