Project Management: Wireless Warehouse RF Solution Implementation Plan

This project management assignment details the implementation of a wireless warehouse RF solution designed to improve material management and delivery speeds. The project encompasses three main tasks: installing a shop floor wireless network, building and configuring RF devices, and incorporating RF-associated SAP changes. The project schedule outlines tasks, durations, resources, and dependencies, visualized through a Gantt chart. The network diagram illustrates the wireless infrastructure, including Cisco devices. The critical path identifies key tasks impacting project completion, such as configuring RF devices and SAP integration. The project aims to reduce operational costs, improve inventory accuracy, and increase productivity, ultimately leading to faster delivery times and enhanced supply chain efficiency. The project also includes a work breakdown structure, resource allocation, and cost details. The assignment provides a comprehensive plan for implementing the RF solution, including details on project tasks, resource allocation, and network infrastructure.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
Task – 1 Project Schedule.....................................................................................................................2
Task – 2 Network Diagram....................................................................................................................8
Task – 3 Critical Path in Project Plan....................................................................................................8
References.............................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
The Wireless warehouse initiative transforms materials management was improve the
operations and delivery speed by 66%. The Service providers are project management,
vendor management and project scheduling. The wireless warehouse initiative transforms
material providers are provides the high efficient turbine drive gas compression, power
generation packages and oil pumping. The warehouse materials management has several
challenges such as increasing the labour costs and logistics threatening to impact the profit
margins. The company supply chain sector needs to improve the material management to
rising the order accuracy and increasing the material productivity and reducing the overall
costs. It controls the material management issues like shipping errors, receiving errors and
inventory counts. These ar needs to improve the delivery speeds. To resolve these issues to
organization decided to take the SAP integration and radio frequency automation with ware
house to achieve the material productivity and optimum supply chain efficiency. It also
improves the delivery speeds. So, organization creates the project schedule to implement the
RF solution in warehouse material management. These project schedule was created by
organization Project management team. The Project manager can be providing the
implementation of a ware house RF solution. The Project managers are managing and
developing the overall project plan. The Project manager performed the role of system
integrator and project manager and also responsible for requirement gathering, installation of
required software and hardware, systems design, procurement and coordinating the user
acceptance testing. The Project schedule, Network diagram and Critical path will be
discussed in detail.
Task – 1 Project Schedule
The wireless warehouse material management has the various challenges and one or
more issues (Kerzner, 2017). These are resolved by created the new RF solution to implement
the RF solution plan. The Organization team was decided to implement the RF solution by
creating the New project schedule for material management. The Project schedule was
created by the project manager. The project manager was managed and developed by project
scheduling plan. The New RF solutions was providing the high delivery speed and order
accuracy. The Project management overall plan is shown in below.
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Tasks
The project management schedule was based on the project task. The Project task
include the three main categories such as Install the shop floor wireless network., Build,
configure and connect the RF devices and Incorporate RF associated SAP (Hobbs, n.d.). The
Project manager was assign the resources and allocate the time for the proposed project plan.
The Implementation of RF solution Project Tasks are listed below.
Task Name
Implementation of a warehouse RF Solution
Initialization
Vendor credentialing
Document approval
Estimate project timeline and resources
Allocate resources and form implementation team
Planning and Execution
Generate project-specific documentation
Install shop floor wireless network
Identify Your Networking Needs
Technical documentation and specifications for
Wireless LAN
Installation of network infrastructure
Router or remote connectivity
Equipment installation
System verification/commissioning
Training
Build, configure, and connect Radio Frequency
devices
Technical documentation and specification for
Radio frequency devices
Installation of Radio Frequency devices
Configuration of Radio Frequency devices
Connect the Radio Frequency DEvices
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System Verification
Incorporate RF-associated SAP changes
SAP’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) software
Radio frequency (RF) automation
SAP integration
Testing
Unit acceptance Testing
Monitoring and controlling
Finalize ware house RF Solution
Closing
Conduct Closeout meeting
Review system performance, project commitments
during Closeout meeting
Review open issues and establish follow-up plan
Forward Closeout letter
Task Full details is shown in below.
The Project task duration, start date and finish date, resources names and predecessors are
listed below (Mehta, 2007).
Task Name Duration Start Finish Resource Names Predeces
sors
Implementation of a
warehouse RF
Solution
51 days Fri 29-09-17 Fri 08-12-17
Initialization 6 days Fri 29-09-17 Fri 06-10-17
Planning and
Execution 37 days Mon 09-10-
17 Tue 28-11-17 2
Generate project-
specific
documentation
1 day Mon 09-10-
17 Mon 09-10-17 Technical Writer
Install shop
floor wireless
17 days Tue 10-10-17 Wed 01-11-17 8
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network
Build, configure,
and connect Radio
Frequency devices
13 days Thu 02-11-17 Mon 20-11-17 9
Incorporate RF-
associated SAP
changes
6 days Tue 21-11-17 Tue 28-11-17 17
SAP’s Supply
Chain Management
(SCM) software
2 days Tue 21-11-17 Wed 22-11-17 system Designer,
System Integrator
Radio
frequency (RF)
automation
2 days Thu 23-11-17 Fri 24-11-17
Developer,
Programmer,
system Designer
24
SAP integration 2 days Mon 27-11-
17 Tue 28-11-17
Developer, System
Designer, System
Integrator
25
Testing 2 days Wed 29-11-
17 Thu 30-11-17 7
Monitoring and
controlling 2 days Fri 01-12-17 Mon 04-12-17 27
Finalize ware
house RF Solution 2 days Fri 01-12-17 Mon 04-12-17 Project Manager,
System Integrator
Closing 4 days Tue 05-12-17 Fri 08-12-17 29
Conduct Closeout
meeting 1 day Tue 05-12-17 Tue 05-12-17 Project Manager
Review system
performance, project
commitments during
Closeout meeting
1 day Wed 06-12-
17 Wed 06-12-17 Project Manager,
System Integrator 32
Review open
issues and establish
follow-up plan
1 day Thu 07-12-17 Thu 07-12-17 Project Manager,
System Integrator 33
Forward Closeout 1 day Fri 08-12-17 Fri 08-12-17 Project Manager, 34
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letter System Integrator,
Tester
Resource
The wireless ware house material management resources are listed below (Baguley, 2008).
Resource Name Type Initials Max.
Units Std. Rate Accrue At Base Calendar
Project Manager Work P 100% $ 200.00/hr Prorated Standard
System Integrator Work S 100% $ 120.00/hr Prorated Standard
system Designer Work s 100% $ 100.00/hr Prorated Standard
Network Engineer Work N 100% $ 175.00/hr Prorated Standard
Tester Work T 100% $ 150.00/hr Prorated Standard
Programmer Work P 100% $ 120.00/hr Prorated Standard
Developer Work D 100% $ 200.00/hr Prorated Standard
Technical Writer Work T 100% $ 120.00/hr Prorated Standard
Gantt Chart
The Project management provide the Gantt chart to easily understand the overall
project and their resources. The project schedule plan clearly provides the project schedule
and their start date and finish date. The Gantt chart is used to provide the task start date and
finish date with the resources name.
Gantt chart is shown in below (Heerkens, 2015).
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Cost detail is shown in below.
Name Actual
Work
Actual Cost Standard
Rate
Project Manager 8 hrs $ 1,600.00 $ 200.00/hr
System
Integrator
8 hrs $ 960.00 $ 120.00/hr
system Designer 0 hrs $ 0.00 $ 100.00/hr
Network
Engineer
0 hrs $ 0.00 $ 175.00/hr
Tester 0 hrs $ 0.00 $ 150.00/hr
Programmer 0 hrs $ 0.00 $ 120.00/hr
Developer 0 hrs $ 0.00 $ 200.00/hr
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Technical
Writer
8 hrs $ 960.00 $ 120.00/hr
Resource Status
The Status of resource is shown in below (Campbell, n.d.).
Name Start Finish Remaining Work
Project Manager Fri 29-09-17 Fri 08-12-17 104 hrs
System Integrator Fri 29-09-17 Fri 08-12-17 128 hrs
system Designer Mon 23-10-17 Tue 28-11-17 136 hrs
Network Engineer Tue 10-10-17 Tue 07-11-17 160 hrs
Tester Fri 27-10-17 Fri 08-12-17 56 hrs
Programmer Fri 03-11-17 Fri 24-11-17 96 hrs
Developer Wed 18-10-17 Tue 28-11-17 160 hrs
Technical Writer Fri 29-09-17 Thu 02-11-17 32 hrs
Total Project statistics is shown in below.
Once the Project completed, new RF solutions was delivered on schedule. It reduces
the operational and maintenance costs (Cooke, Tate & Cooke, 2011). The RF solutions
provides the biggest gains from implementation of RF solutions were improved and increased
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the inventory accuracy and productivity. It producing the significant improvement in overall
time to market. The New RF solution plan provides the material productivity. It improved the
deliver speed upt0 70% (Cicala & Cicala, 2013).
Work Breakdown Structure
The Project work breakdown structure is shown in below.
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Implementation of a warehouse RF Solution
Initialization ClosingPlanning and
Execution
Testing
Monitoring
and
Controlling
Install shop
floor wireless
network
Build,
configure, and
connect Radio
Frequency
devices
Incorporate
RF-associated
SAP changes
Vendor
credentialing
Document
approval
Estimate
project
timeline and
resources
Allocate
resources and
form
implementatio
n team
Unit
acceptance
Testing
Finalize ware
house RF
Solution
Conduct
Closeout
meeting
Review
system
perform
ance
Review
open
issues
Forward
Closeout
letter

Task – 2 Network Diagram
The Ware house material management has one or more issues. These are resolved by
creating the new RF solution project plan (Happy, 2010). The Implementation of RF solution
Plan was managed and developed by the Project management team. The Project manager was
creating the implementation of RF solution proposed plan. The Project Plan including the
three main categories such as Install the shop floor wireless network., Build, configure and
connect the RF devices and Incorporate RF associated SAP changes. The Project manager
was assign the resources and allocate the time for the proposed project plan. First, the project
plan was first install the shop floor wireless network. It is shown in below.
The Above network diagram display the ware house material management network
infrastructure. The Ware house material management has the wireless network connect to
improve the order accuracy and productivity. The Project management team first create the
network infrastructure to create and install the new wireless network for ware house material
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management (Microsoft Project 2010, n.d.). It provides the productivity and high delivery
speed. It provides the accurate delivery schedule. The New RF solutions provides the high
order accuracy. The Wireless ware house material management network infrastructure has the
following network components such as,
 Cisco Switches
 Cisco Routers
 Cisco Server
 Cisco Access points
 Cisco Firewall
 Dell computers
 Canon Printers
The Network components are connected with each other. The cisco network devices are
used to provides the secure network infrastructure. The project managers are decided to use
the cisco products to reduce the operational and maintenance costs (Biafore, 2010). The
Network engineers are creating the new network infrastructure to provide the wireless
warehouse for material management. The wireless warehouse provides the high deliver speed
for material management. The network infrastructure was developed by the network engineer
and developer. It managed by the project manager and system integrator. The Overall
network infrastructure was organized by the project manager. The Wireless network was
install, build and configure the ware house wireless network. The network engineer was
securely providing the high secure wireless network for material management. It was
providing the high inventory accuracy and increasing the productivity. It provides the
significant improvement in overall time to market.
Task – 3 Critical Path in Project Plan
The Project management creating the new RF solution for wireless ware house
material management. The Project management scheduling has the various tasks to create the
new RF solutions. The Project schedule has various critical tasks in proposed RF solution
implementation. The Critical task are identified by click the format in Gantt chart view. After
click the Critical tasks. It shows the Critical task in the project plan with red colour. The
Implementation of RF solution has different critical tasks. The main critical task is the build,
configure the RF devices, RF automations and SAP changes in the wireless ware house
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material management. The Critical path was successfully completed by the implementation
team. The RF implementation solutions plan was successfully completed by the
implementation team. The identified critical task is shown in below Happy, R. (2010).
The Microsoft Project Management file is attached here.
conclusion
The current material management has slow delivery speed. So, the organization
providers are decided to creating the wireless warehouse material management. The Material
management provides are project management and vendor management. The organization
team was decided to creating the new RF solutions to provide the high-speed delivery. The
Current material management facing the lot of issues. These are resolved by creating the new
project plan for implementation of RF solutions. The implementation of RF solutions plan
was created by the project manager. The Project manager was successfully created the New
project plan. After assigned the resources for the project schedule. The Implementation of RF
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solution was managed ad developed by the project manager. The Project management
schedule first created the project tasks. The project manager can be assign the resources for
each project tasks. The project manager was monitor and controlling the overall project plan.
The ware house material management has the wireless network infrastructure. It provides the
security and productivity. The Implementation of RF solutions has various critical tasks.
These are identified and controlled by the project manager. The Critical path was successfully
completed. The project management was successfully creating the Implementation of RF
solutions plan for Wireless warehouse material management. It provides the high speed
delivery and order accuracy.
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