Detailed Project Plan: Warehouse Implementation at UMW Holdings

This project management assignment outlines a comprehensive plan for implementing a warehouse for UMW Holdings Berhad, a Malaysia-based investment holding organization with interests in equipment, engineering, manufacturing, and automotive sectors. The plan includes a statement of work (SOW) defining the project's purpose, scope, tasks, milestones, standards, success criteria, and cost. A work breakdown structure (WBS) is provided to delineate the various stages of the project, from initiation and planning to execution and closure. The assignment identifies key deliverables, estimates the time and cost required for sub-tasks, assesses HR requirements, and analyzes potential risks. Task dependencies are examined to determine the critical path and project schedule, and methods for assessing project quality through regular monitoring are discussed, culminating in a plan for project closure. This document is intended to provide a structured approach to warehouse implementation, ensuring efficient resource allocation and successful project completion for UMW Holdings.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction......................................................................................................................3
2. Discussion........................................................................................................................4
2.1. Identifying and Selecting the Project........................................................................4
2.2. Statement of Work (SOW) for Overall Project........................................................4
2.2.1 Purpose...............................................................................................................4
2.2.2 Scope...................................................................................................................4
2.2.3. Task....................................................................................................................5
2.2.4. Milestone...........................................................................................................6
2.2.5. Standards and Testing........................................................................................6
2.2.6. Success of the Project........................................................................................7
2.2.7. Cost of the Project.............................................................................................7
2.3. Work Breakdown structure.....................................................................................10
2.4. Deliverables upon completing the said project.......................................................10
2.5. Required Time and Cost needed for completing the sub-task of the project..........11
2.5.1. Time schedule..................................................................................................11
2.5.2. Cost Schedule..................................................................................................13
2.6. Accessing the HR requirements for the project......................................................14
2.6.1. Importance of Assessing the HR Requirement................................................15
2.6.2. Process of Accessing the HR Requirements....................................................16
2.7. Accessing risk for the project.................................................................................17
2.8. Analysing task dependencies for critical path and project schedule......................21
2.9. Assess of project quality through regular monitoring for progress and nature of the
project........................................................................................................................................21
2.10. Project Closure......................................................................................................24
3. Conclusion and Recommendation.................................................................................24
4. References......................................................................................................................26

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1. Introduction
UMW holding Berhad is an investment holding organization which is completely based
on Malaysia. UMW is a well-known industrial firm that comes up with diverse interest in various
domains like equipment, engineering and manufacturing and lastly automotive. UMW has
completely expanded in various Malaysian areas (Kerzner 2017). Also, the organization is
planning to expand on international platform that is in Vietnam, Myanmar and lastly China. As a
result of strategic alliance with some of the global leaders, it has helped UMW leader for being
leader in some of their business. UMW aims to focus on three major areas like automotive,
equipment and manufacturing. A part of the organization also operates different automotive
segments that is needed for import, marketing and assembly for passengers. It also operates
trading, licensing in the range of light and heavy equipments. Warehouse can be stated as the act
of storage structure that is needed for building a defence for both quality and quantity for stock
(Meredith, Mantel and Shafer 2017). The need for warehouse can be understanding where there
is a proper time gap for product production and its consumption. Warehouse mainly helps the
businessman in carrying out the production in the whole year, followed by selling products in-
case of sufficient demand. Need of warehouse comes into picture when there are some special
goods required at the particular time of the year. This particular project will mainly help in easing
out the whole process of stocking goods at the instance of exceeding supply. It is used in the
instance when the demand is found to be more in comparison to the immediate production. This
particular project will be bringing security to the goods of UMW holdings (Schwalbe 2015). In
this way, organization can easily reduce the overall threat of the given goods.
In the coming pages of the report, a statement of work (SOW) has been provided
concerning overall project goals. Different stages of the project have been described by the help
of work breakdown structure (WBS). All possible deliverable of this project upon completing has
been discussed in brief. A proper budget and schedule for completing the project have been
provided. Both risk and HR requirements in this project are discussed in details. The next section
of the report deals with dependency of task on the critical path. The last part of the report deals
with project quality, which is done by the help of monitoring and progress naturally.

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2. Discussion
2.1. Identifying and Selecting the Project
The following report is all about implementing warehouse for a Malaysia based firm
named UMW holdings. By the help of this project, the organization can easily ease their whole
process of stocking when there is more supply than demand (Fleming and Koppelman 2016).
This particular project will help the organization in having a habitual supply various goods in the
present market.
2.2. Statement of Work (SOW) for Overall Project
2.2.1 Purpose
The reason for this project is all about implementing a warehouse for UMW holdings. It is
mainly done so that they can get huge number of benefits. UMW holdings can make use of
warehouse so that they can store required goods before its distribution (Heagney 2016).
Warehouse will provide a range of services like picking, shipping and lastly packaging.
Warehouse will help in production of required goods throughout the year without any kind of
attention on shortage of raw materials.
2.2.2 Scope
In this project, there is a need for construction of warehouse for UMW holding so that
they can produce required goods without raw material shortage (Qazi et al. 2016). Manufacturers
aim to produce required raw material in proper material that will help them in having goods
through the year (Walker 2015). The proposed project will employ different labour, employees
and workers. Warehouse authorities aim to assure that goods stored in the warehouse are well
protected.
2.2.3. Task
Task Name
Project Initiation
Developing the Business case
Assigning the Project Manager
Developing the Business Charter
Finalizing the project

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Project Planning
Performing primary planning
Creating WBS
Planning Schedule
Resource Planning
Budget Planning
Performing Supplementary Planning
Plan Risk management
Plan Change Management
Execution and Control Phase
Land Buying
Building warehouse
Interior Design
Managing Communications
Managing Procurement
Managing the Risks
Execute the activities
Manage the Changes
Closure Phase
Checklist of final activities
Documenting the project
Closing the project
2.2.4. Milestone
Project Milestone can be defined as a task of zero duration, which highlights the vital
achievements in the given project. Milestone aims to highlight clear sequence for the given
events which will help in completing the given project (Turner 2016). Milestone of the schedule
needs to be complete first because without this, the next schedule cannot proceed. In this project,
there are mainly three milestones that are

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 Finalizing the Project
 Managing the changes in the project
 Closing of the project.
2.2.5. Standards and Testing
In the construction project, there are many kinds of risk involved in it. A contractor
mainly aims to provide quality assurance, which is needed for preventing problem and there
again appearing. In this way, the system assures the overall quality of the contractors (Verzuh
2015). The testing is done concerning ISO 9000 standard. The overall contractor quality tends to
vary concerning complexit, which ranges from informal inspection and testing system (Sunder
2016). ISO 9000 clauses often deal with a list of phrases like
 Inspection and Test Result
 Inspection and testing
 Control of non-conformance Product
2.2.6. Success of the Project
Project manager should deliver the given project within the allowed cost and timeline.
Also, project manager should understand the demand of client, so that project deliverables have
met customer expectation (Binder 2016). Successful factors are mainly contributed by
management, which is towards the success of the project. It is mainly divided into five categories
that are
Project Manager: This particular person needs to come up with list of skills so that he
can use it during the project.
Project Team: Team mainly comprises of range of skills and proper experience. By
proper guidance, team can easily achieve successful project.
Project: Both the aspect that is scope and timeline of this warehouse project is found to
be very much important.
Organization: Organization should provide a wide range of support to project team and
project manager.
External Environment: The external environment should not provide any kind of effect
on the project (Meng and Boyd 2017). There is a need for proper-backup plan so that tasks are
not carried out by the team members.

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2.2.7. Cost of the Project
Task Name Cost
Implementing Warehouse $327,500.00
Project Initiation $20,880.00
Developing the Business case $10,800.00
Assigning the Poject Manager $1,200.00
Developing the Business Charter $5,920.00
Finalyzing the project $2,960.00
Project Planning $81,760.00
Performing primary planning $45,760.00
Creating WBS $4,320.00
Planing Schedule $11,840.00
Resource Planning $14,800.00
Budget Planning $14,800.00
Performing Supplementary Planning $36,000.00
Plan Risk management $18,000.00
Plan Change Management $18,000.00
Execution and Control Phase $217,180.00
Land Buying $33,180.00
Building warehouse $86,000.00
Interior Design $30,800.00
Managing Communications $13,440.00
Managing Procurement $13,440.00
Managing the Risks $13,440.00
Execute the activities $13,440.00
Manage the Changes $13,440.00
Closure Phase $7,680.00
Checklist of final activities $3,680.00

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Documenting the project $4,000.00
Closing the project $0.00

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2.3. Work Breakdown structure
Fig 1: Work Breakdown Structure of Warehouse Project
(Source: Created by Author)
2.4. Deliverables upon completing the said project
The output which is received in completing the construction project is considered to be
project deliverables. The main task of project manager is all about tracking and managing the
overall deliverables of the project (Kerzner 2017). It is mainly done so that they can be in-
charged. There is list of criteria which need to be met for getting the output of the project which
is known to be deliverable. These are
 Output needs to be within the scope of the project.
 Both internal and external stakeholders need to agree to it.
 The output needs to have deliberate work
 The output needs to have a proper role in attaining the overall objective of the project
(Meredith, Mantel and Shafer 2017).
Project manager needs to analyse nine important aspects for this warehouse project like
 Engineering reports
 Product Quality Improvement
 Proposal
 Drawing design
 Designing of document
Implementing Warehouse
Project Initiation
Developing the
Business case
Assigning the Poject
Manager
Developing the
Business Charter
Finalyzing the
project
Project Planning
Performing primary
planning
Creating WBS
Planing Schedule
Resource Planning
Budget Planning
Performing
Supplementary Planning
Plan Risk
management
Plan Change
Management
Execution and Control
Phase
Land Buying
Building warehouse
Interior Design
Managing
Communications
Managing
Procurement
Managing the Risks
Execute the
activities
Manage the
Changes
Closure Phase
Checklist of final
activities
Documenting the
project
Closing the project

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 Complete structure
 Investigated report of the site
 Design views
 Report for overall progress.
2.5. Required Time and Cost needed for completing the sub-task of the project
2.5.1. Time schedule
Task Name Duration Start Finish
Implementing Warehouse 119 days Mon 12/10/09 Thu 25/03/10
Project Initiation 9 days Mon 12/10/09 Thu 22/10/09
Developing the Business case 5 days Mon 12/10/09 Fri 16/10/09
Assigning the Project Manager 1 day Mon 19/10/09 Mon 19/10/09
Developing the Business Charter 2 days Tue 20/10/09 Wed 21/10/09
Finalizing the project 1 day Thu 22/10/09 Thu 22/10/09
Project Planning 17 days Thu 22/10/09 Fri 13/11/09
Performing primary planning 7 days Thu 22/10/09 Fri 30/10/09
Creating WBS 2 days Fri 23/10/09 Mon 26/10/09
Planning Schedule 4 days Tue 27/10/09 Fri 30/10/09
Resource Planning 5 days Thu 22/10/09 Wed 28/10/09
Budget Planning 5 days Thu 22/10/09 Wed 28/10/09
Performing Supplementary
Planning 10 days Mon 2/11/09 Fri 13/11/09
Plan Risk management 5 days Mon 2/11/09 Fri 6/11/09
Plan Change Management 5 days Mon 9/11/09 Fri 13/11/09
Execution and Control Phase 90 days Mon 16/11/09 Fri 19/03/10
Land Buying 12 days Mon 16/11/09 Tue 1/12/09
Building warehouse 30 days Wed 2/12/09 Tue 12/01/10
Interior Design 18 days Wed 13/01/10 Fri 5/02/10
Managing Communications 6 days Mon 8/02/10 Mon 15/02/10
Managing Procurement 6 days Tue 16/02/10 Tue 23/02/10

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Managing the Risks 6 days Wed 24/02/10 Wed 3/03/10
Execute the activities 6 days Thu 4/03/10 Thu 11/03/10
Manage the Changes 6 days Fri 12/03/10 Fri 19/03/10
Closure Phase 4 days Mon 22/03/10 Thu 25/03/10
Checklist of final activities 2 days Mon 22/03/10 Tue 23/03/10
Documenting the project 2 days Wed 24/03/10 Thu 25/03/10
Closing the project 0 days Thu 25/03/10 Thu 25/03/10
2.5.2. Cost Schedule
Task Name Cost
Implementing Warehouse $327,500.00
Project Initiation $20,880.00
Developing the Business case $10,800.00
Assigning the Poject Manager $1,200.00
Developing the Business Charter $5,920.00
Finalyzing the project $2,960.00
Project Planning $81,760.00
Performing primary planning $45,760.00
Creating WBS $4,320.00
Planing Schedule $11,840.00
Resource Planning $14,800.00
Budget Planning $14,800.00
Performing Supplementary Planning $36,000.00
Plan Risk management $18,000.00
Plan Change Management $18,000.00
Execution and Control Phase $217,180.00
Land Buying $33,180.00

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Building warehouse $86,000.00
Interior Design $30,800.00
Managing Communications $13,440.00
Managing Procurement $13,440.00
Managing the Risks $13,440.00
Execute the activities $13,440.00
Manage the Changes $13,440.00
Closure Phase $7,680.00
Checklist of final activities $3,680.00
Documenting the project $4,000.00
Closing the project $0.00
2.6. Accessing the HR requirements for the project
UMW Holdings has undertaken the project of development of a warehouse. It is a critical
and a high priority project and therefore, setting up of a strong project team is necessary. There
are certain key objectives in developing a project team (Jahan 2014). The process of developing a
project team is considered as an activity which might include improvement of the internal and
external interaction of the team members, by improving the skills of the members and by
optimizing the team environment of the execution of the project.
Accurate assessment of all the HR requirements relates to the process of development of a
team. Assessment of the Human Resources needed in the project is critical for assessing whether
the project performance can be enhanced. It is vital to develop an organized team that will be
capable of managing the development of a warehouse (Abdirad and Pishdad-Bozorgi 2014). The
management of human resources in a project includes effective processes that help in
management and leading the project team. The project team is comprised of individuals that are
assigned with certain particular roles and responsibilities (Crawford 2014). For assessing the HR
requirements of the project that is linked with development of a warehouse, an HR project
manager is needed to be appointed who will be responsible for effective management of the HR
projects that include budget of the project, that is risk and resource (Harrison and Lock 2017).