Learn how a leading chemical and plastics manufacturer used P6-Loader to boost the efficiency of their contractor updates in P6
Updates Made Easy for Contractors and Schedulers
Client Overview
Client is a leading producer of plastics and chemicals. They develop and manufacture materials for customers worldwide who produce consumer, industrial and packaging products.
Challenges
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Client had trouble getting contractor/scheduler updates for pre/post turnaround work
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They were upgrading to the latest version of Primavera P6
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They had unclean data that needed cleaning up
Results
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Client can easily deal with their contractor updates by using P6-Loader
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They can easily extract and update resource availability and reload to Primavera P6
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The P6-Loader eliminated manual input errors
Manufacturing Case Studies
on Thursday, 23 March 2023.
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Integration allows PMs to manage 20 projects at once
PMs get on top of projects with daily integrated system
Written by Nicole Jardin
Client Overview
Calgary pre-fab manufacturer with international projects needed integration to accounting and purchasing system to get control over client commitments and internal and external spending for hundreds of simultaneous projects.
Challenges
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Tracking costs to date on hundreds of projects manually was too time consuming
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Client forecasting was taking too long and overruns were being missed
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Senior management was not getting the reporting done in a timely manner
Results
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Integrated daily costs from Discoverer into P6 and PCM Contract Management
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Updated the external contract and PO costs into expenses
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Integrated the internal detailed resource costs into resources and forecasted onto the budget resource
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P6-Calculator did all the cost rollups and comparisons to the budget
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P6-Calculator flagged integration errors, mismatches, and potential incorrect charges for the PM
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BI Reporting was developed for cost to date, forecasting, earned value, CPI, SPI and changes to-date
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on Wednesday, 24 March 2021.
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Large Pre-Fab Manufacturer uses P6-Loader to get control over their planning, scheduling and cost controls.
competing priorities resolved
Written by Nicole Jardin
Client Overview
Calgary pre-fab manufacturer with international projects needed to get better control over the planning, scheduling and cost controls of several hundred projects on the go at once for wide ranging clients.
Challenges
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Fabrication team was swamped and priorities were unclear
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Change orders were impacting priorities
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Needed a common approach to planning 250 projects on the go
Results
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Used the P6-Loader to develop P6 Structures - EPS/OBS/Cost Accounts
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Fully templated program
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Cost Loading Changes with Overhead, Profit tracking
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Daily Costing Reporting
Manufacturing Case Studies
on Wednesday, 16 December 2020.
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