Project Management: Fletcher Building Limited SCM Project Report

This project report focuses on project management within the context of business development, specifically addressing supply chain management (SCM) improvements for Fletcher Building Limited. The report details the various stages of project management, including planning, execution, and closing, highlighting the importance of project documentation, stakeholder analysis (internal and external), and defining project scope. It identifies issues faced by stakeholders and the limitations of a project manager's responsibilities. The report outlines strategies to meet organizational objectives, including resource allocation (human, financial, and technological), risk management, and the importance of team member involvement in planning and execution. It also explores quality measures, record-keeping systems, and communication strategies for stakeholder engagement, including financial record management and the project's contribution to innovation and change. The project aims to enhance SCM using Flash View and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies to improve efficiency, customer satisfaction, and overall productivity. The report concludes that effective project management tactics and team collaboration are crucial for successful project outcomes, emphasizing the benefits of advanced SCM practices.

Project Management in
Business

INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
 Project management is considered as a procedure
that involves variety of stages in order to achieve
the criteria and the objectives.
 Different stages of it includes planning, executing,
managing and closing up.

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Project documentation
• Fletcher Building Limited is one of the leading construction firm in New Zealand and looking
forward to have continuous development. It has been witnessed that company is facing issues in
terms of SCM.
• In order to have long term development, the company is looking forward to have improvement in
SCM process through application of Flash View and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). In
this regard, the deliverables of project need to be understood in significant manner (Burke, 2013).
• Using diverse standards, the activities can be accomplished. It includes material, strategy plans,
new place, workers and productive finances keeping in mind the end goal to meet the goal of the
business venture.

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Project stakeholders and scope
Project Leader: XYZ
Description: In present project, various team mates and a project manager will be
participating so that objective can be accomplished. Diverse members will hold
responsibilities according to their skills and needs of organisation.
Goal statement: Main goal of this project is to advance the supply chain management.
Problem statement: Businesses are not having appropriate supply chain which creates issue.
It impacts the performance of Fletcher Building Limited so the advancement in supply
chain is essential using diverse methods.
Project Scope: Fletcher Building Limited can easily improve the supply chain at low cost
investment which will also improve the technological productivity.

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Issues faced by stakeholders
Internal Stakeholders: These kinds of stakeholders are considered as members who have direct
involvement with activities in order to meet the goals and objectives. Such kind of stakeholders can
be classified as employees, manager and owners. It means in present case, project manager,
technicians, monitoring team will be referred as internal stakeholders who have direct involvement
in the practice.
External Stakeholders: Individuals who have interest in working of organisation but do not have active
direct involvement in the practice can be referred as external stakeholders. Such kind of
stakeholders can be classified as suppliers, government, investors, etc. In addition to this, it can be
said that project sponsors and supplier of technical support team are key stakeholders.

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Limitations of project manager
responsibility
• The project manager is focused on better communication and distribution of responsibility of each
and every employees in work place. It helps and decides what type of human resource management
is doing work and hire for the job.
• It includes what type of training will be provided and helps to build capacity and improve
productivity in Fletcher Building Limited. It means the project manager is only accountable to
activities within project (Flyvbjerg, 2013).
• Control over other related activities is not much impressive which can be considered as limitation
of responsibility. It is an excellent way to build the relationship between each and every employees
in organisation.

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Aspects to meet organisation
objectives
• l to refer to advance the supply chain of Fletcher Building Limited and application of technology
(Larson and Gray, 2013). It is also necessary to set out time frame so that activities can be
accomplished in the desired manner.
• It will assist in making sure that goals and objectives are being accomplished. In addition to this, it
can be said that continuous monitoring of activities is also essential to refer to advance the supply
chain of Fletcher Building Limited and application of technology (Larson and Gray, 2013).
• It is also necessary to set out time frame so that activities can be accomplished in the desired
manner.

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Resource required for project
completion
• In addition to this, it can be said that there are numbers of resources which need to be
referred by management of Fletcher Building Limited in order to have effective
accomplishment of objectives.
• It is significant to have consideration of resources like human resource, finance,
technological sources, etc (Mir and Pinnington, 2014).
• This means by having an appropriate support of all the factors and allocation of
resources, the implementation of project activity can be accomplished in the desired
manner.

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Strategies to manage risk
There are some strategies to be used to manage risk and improve overall development in
plan or improve overall conditions. In this context, four most important strategies are as
follows:-
Avoid it: - In this context, avoid all such kind of problem in internal workplace. It is the
first and foremost important part to manage work at Fletcher Building Limited, with the
help of all such kind of activity. In this, manager of project need to analyse the factors
which can be avoided such as time of monitoring activities. It might not affect the
performance but it will improve the validity of the application.
Reduce it: - In risk management, to make a complete plan to reduce all such kind of level
and improve level of carrying into action (Kerzner, 2013). Manager of supply chain
transformation project must focus on credibility of factors so that correct measures can
be overcome.

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Project team assistance in planning
• It is necessary for management to ensure that every member of team is having an
appropriate involvement in terms of project sustainability.
• Technical team, supply chain management authorities, project manager and
assistants in project of supply chain regarding Fletcher Building Limited need to
have collective working.
• It is necessary to ensure about standards of planning and risk so that each member
can accomplish their role more effectively (Schwalbe, 2015).

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Responsibilities of team members
• As Fletcher Building Limited is focusing on making some improvements in the Supply
Chain Management (SCM), they have decided to make involvement of some leading
technologies such as Flash view and Radio frequency.
• So, there must be various organisational requirements as well. Therefore, at this time, it
is important that the team members stay aware of their roles and cooperate with the
other members so that it can lead to an effective and appropriate project that would be
capable enough to achieve all their outcomes and objectives.

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Quality measures in project
Quality measures in project
• There are some ways that can be involved by Fletcher Building Limited in order to provide support
to the members so that the quality as well as the outcomes can be achieved in the project. These
ways are discussed as under:
• Encouraging them by different means can actually help in increasing their confidence level
(Clough, Sears and Rounds, 2015).
• Providing them motivation such as by means of increments or incentives can also help in
maintaining their interest in the company so that all the objectives of Fletcher Building Limited can
be achieved successfully.