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MARCH 21, 2024

Making sure resources are in working order keeps production moving forward and helps you stay productive. This is true in other industries where maintenance planning is essential to successful projects and productivity. What do we mean when we say maintenance planning? What Is Maintenance Planning?

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APRIL 4, 2024

Choosing the best kanban software for your team might be overwhelming, especially if you’re not sure of what features to look for. Trello’s tools and features are mainly geared towards marketing, product development and creative teams, but can also be used to manage tasks and workflows in other industries.

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MARCH 27, 2024

After the war, the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota looked at how supermarkets stocked only what they expected to sell at a given time. Kanban in manufacturing and production has many uses, which we detail below, as well as how it relates to lean and just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. What Is Kanban?

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MARCH 19, 2024

Suppliers and contractors deliver those products and services that help fulfill the project. Managers want to stay on budget and resources cost money, which is why they use a request for quote (RFQ) to get pricing from suppliers and contractors. What Is a Request for Quote (RFQ)? Projects need resources, often consistently.

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MARCH 12, 2024

When a project is planned, a set of steps are outlined to deliver a product or service. Once one understands what resource requirements are in project management, next there is estimating what those resources will be and managing them. What Are Resource Requirements in Project Management? That’s a lot of variables.

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APRIL 17, 2024

To better understand what a sales order is, we’ll define the term, list what should be included and outline the sales order process. What Is a Sales Order? There’s a digital copy, where products are digital, made on demand and delivered instantly to customers. Learn more What Should Be Included in a Sales Order?

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APRIL 23, 2024

They don’t directly deliver new products or services to customers, but improve the way an organization does business and that impacts customers. To better understand operational project management requires defining what an operational project is, how it differs from strategic projects and what operational project management is.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Ordering a product and getting it delivered has become commonplace. What Is Order Processing? But the data can also help to understand a customer’s purchasing patterns, improve the company’s marketing strategies and streamline its product development. Plus, we’ll throw in some free templates to help streamline order processing.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

What Are Organizational Resources? Raw materials, parts & components: Raw materials are items that are purchased or extracted and transformed into parts, components or products. Raw materials, parts & components: Raw materials are items that are purchased or extracted and transformed into parts, components or products.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

What Is Tactical Planning? Tactical planning describes the action steps, strategies and projects that are deployed by the different departments of an organization, such as sales, marketing, product development and others to contribute to the accomplishment of strategic goals. Tactical planning tells you how to get there.

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MARCH 13, 2024

What Is a Project ERP? When managing a project you can import timesheets to capture labor hours and costs into your ERP, but this is not the most efficient way to track those resources. Manufacturers with simple operations use a traditional ERP for straightforward production and overall finances.

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MARCH 8, 2024

But how do they know what to work on? This construction document helps subcontractors understand what they need to do if they have any questions. First, we’ll explain what an RFI in construction is and then list what should be included in one. What Is an RFI in Construction?

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APRIL 25, 2024

For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development. What Is Kanban? Before getting into kanban history, it’s important to understand what kanban is. Kanban as a name came later.

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MARCH 1, 2024

In this blog, we’ll show you how to make a Gantt chart in Asana and we’ll do an in-depth analysis of its features, benefits and limitations. In this blog, we’ll show you how to make a Gantt chart in Asana and we’ll do an in-depth analysis of its features, benefits and limitations. What Can You Use an Asana Gantt Chart For?

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MARCH 28, 2024

Notion is work management software that helps teams from across industries such as product development, engineering or marketing to facilitate team communication, manage tasks and create simple project timelines. Gantt charts are essential project planning and scheduling tools that can manage and track resources and costs.

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APRIL 10, 2024

We’ll explain what order management is and explore how an order management process is conducted. What Is Order Management? What Is Order Management? They should be happy with the product, of course, but also with how the company handled their order and delivered it. Customer satisfaction is also an objective.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Assign tasks to your team members, create a project schedule, track resource utilization and monitor project costs. Learn more What Can You Use a Power BI Gantt Chart For? Power BI can help you better analyze the data your business or project generates so you can make better decisions. But is Power BI good for project management?

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JANUARY 18, 2024

MS Project integrates with MS products such as Office and has financial management tools and Gantt charts. Microsoft Planner also integrates with MS products and has kanban boards and other project views. What Is Microsoft Project? What Is Microsoft Project Used For? May the best app win. We’re getting ahead of ourselves.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To communicate this, organizations will usually employ what is called a strategy map. If you’re unfamiliar with a strategic map, we’ll explain what it is and what is included in one. What Is a Strategy Map? Use our powerful Gantt charts to create visual timelines and allow you to organize tasks with costs and resources.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

It’s a document that captures the total costs required to complete a project over a specified timeframe. The more accurate your forecast for project costs, the more likely you’ll be able to deliver a successful project and make a profit. A budget proposal is a document that estimates the cost of executing a potential project.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

It can be used to communicate what’s needed in the project, the costs associated with the activities and the management of payments. But what is a schedule of values and why is it such an essential construction project management document? What Is a Schedule of Values? Learn more When Should You Use a Schedule of Values?

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MARCH 20, 2024

What Is a Preconstruction Meeting? Our color-coded workload chart shows everyone’s allocation and general contractors can balance the team’s workload right from that chart to keep them working at capacity and staying productive. ProjectManager has workload charts to keep teams productive.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Let’s look at what a simple Gantt chart is and why one would want to use it over the more dynamic Gantt charts. What Is a Simple Gantt Chart? However, a simple Gantt chart might be just what you need to plan a project. It’s a lot easier than having to add resources, costs, dependencies, milestones and more.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There are various costs involved in the production of any product. Being able to make accurate estimates of your manufacturing costs is critical to a company’s profitability and competitive advantage. Before work hits the production line, one must know how to calculate manufacturing cost.

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MARCH 14, 2024

What Is Project Strategy? Beyond organizing tasks and adding milestones, resources and costs, users can link all four types of task dependencies to avoid costly delays. Beyond organizing tasks and adding milestones, resources and costs, users can link all four types of task dependencies to avoid costly delays.

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MARCH 7, 2024

What Is Organizational Strategy? Diversification: When you want to expand your business, this strategy encourages growth by adding new products or services. Profit: Here a company will outline plans to increase revenue while keeping costs down. This is called organizational strategy levels.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A budget is a document that’s mainly used to break down the costs of executing a project or running the operations of a business for a period of time and define a maximum spending limit for the procurement of resources. Then you can use ProjectManager to track work and monitor costs as they occur.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

But who makes the decision on the quantity of output and how that information is delivered is processed through what’s called a production order. First, let’s define what a production order is and why it’s so important to the manufacturing process. We’ll also throw in some free production planning templates.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Let’s explain what a strategic plan is in more detail and highlight the benefits of using one. Let’s explain what a strategic plan is in more detail and highlight the benefits of using one. What Is a Strategic Roadmap? Organizations define a high-level view of their direction with a strategic roadmap.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Products go through many processes before they reach a customer. Once a product has been manufactured, how does it reach the customer? What is order fulfillment and how does it differ from order processing and order management? What Is Order Fulfillment? That’s called order fulfillment.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Making more than the market will support is going to lead to extra costs in production and warehouse that can bust the bank. That’s why a production budget is essential. But what is a production budget and what should be included in one? What Is a Production Budget? Learn more.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

What Is Workforce Planning? It’s used to avoid gaps in your workforce coverage and determine what skills are needed where and when, at the right cost, to help the project or projects succeed. You can organize your tasks and the associated human resource and nonhuman resource costs, and make sure you have coverage.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Whether you’re managing a project in construction or manufacturing, keeping costs down is paramount. The lower your costs, the higher your profits. This is why in project management and business in general cost control is so important. There are also a number of cost control techniques that can help, which we’ll also outline.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Let’s explore lean construction, defining what it is and its key principles. What Is Lean Construction? The goal is to improve construction while keeping costs down and improving value for the customer depending on their needs. Reliable work on a construction site requires aligning the supply chain to always have what you need.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

ClickUp and Monday are two of the more visible project management software products on the market. Plus, Monday doesn’t have enough features to justify its cost and price increases, especially with its inferior Gantt chart. What Is ClickUp? What Is ClickUp Used For? But are either of these true project management tools?

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JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’re not familiar with a balanced scorecard, we’ll define the term and show the four perspectives it tracks as well as explain what should be included in a balanced scorecard. What Is a Balanced Scorecard? Coming up with long-term goals for a business or organization is just the beginning of a five-year project.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Manufacturers have to do more than produce a product, they also have to manage their operations. Before getting into the benefits of manufacturing operations management, let’s define what the term means and the areas that are under manufacturing operations management. What Is Manufacturing Operations Management?

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