Back in Unit 5 you were told the CEO of Kibby and Strand was considering an expansion of production capacity by leasing a building next
door. Well, a lot has changed since then. Kibby and Strand recently signed a contract with Amazon to market and distribute some of its
products. As a result, the CEO decided to build a new addition to the current building to accommodate the need for more shipping dock
space. Shipping will move to the new addition and Production will expand into the space Shipping currently uses.
You are the Operations Manager and the CEO has tasked you to come up with a project plan for moving the Shipping Department to the new
addition and expanding the Production Department into Shipping’s old space. Your guidance is, “come up with a plan to shift move Shipping to the new addition and expand production capacity using Shipping’s current space with minimal impact to operations. We need to meet our
contractual deadlines.” You are told that you will be able to buy new machines for production’s increasing capacity, but the current machines in the production department will still be used. In other words, you can’t throw away the existing machines in production.
Develop a project plan that will allow production to continue while the movement of machines and staff into their new locations is taking
place. The plan needs to list assumptions, constraints, and a network diagram for the move. Also, identify the critical path in your plan and its length in days.
Instruction Guidance: It would be prudent to consider content covered in chapters 17 and 18 of the textbook; however, there are many other useful resources available on the Internet and in the literature to support the construction of your project plan.
The project plan should be prepared as a Microsoft™ Word document, and then attached to the unit discussion thread. There is no minimum or maximum in terms of the word count; however, the response should explicitly address all required components of this discussion assignment. The document should be prepared consistent with the APA writing style and reflect higher level cognitive processing (analysis, synthesis and
or evaluation).