Operations Management: Creating Value Along the Supply Chain, 7th Edition

Chapter 9. Project Management

In this chapter, you will learn about . . .

• Project Planning

• Global and Diversity Issues in Project Management

• Project Scheduling

• Project Control

• CPM/PERT

• Probabalistic Activity Times

• CPM/PERT Analysis with OM Tools

• Microsoft Project

• Project Crashing and Time-Cost Tradeoff

Web resources for this chapter include

• OM Tools Software

• Animated Demo Problems

• Internet Exercises

• Online Practice Quizzes

• Microsoft Project

• Lecture Slides in PowerPoint

• Virtual Tours

• Company and Resource Weblinks

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Project Management AT MARS

In November 2009, Mars Chocolate North America completed two significant large-scale projects in Hackettstown, New Jersey: a solar garden, one of the largest solar projects in the state; and a renovated, state-of-the-art headquarters facility. The solar garden consists of more than 28,000 ground-mounted solar panels on 18 acres next to the Mars headquarters in Hackettstown, where M&M chocolate candies are also manufactured. The solar garden (owned and operated by PSEG Solar Source) provides about 2MW of power to the plant—enough power for about 1,800 homes—and approximately 20% of the plant's, peek energy consumption. The solar garden reduced carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1,000 metric tons, the equivalent of removing 190 cars from the road each year. The renovation project to the Mars headquarters included an open, flexible workplace ...