Multi-Job Scheduling

Dear Group,

The company that I work for does several small piping jobs concurrently. The planning schedule is made on a job-independent basis with no connection to other jobs that have to be done during the same period. The management 'mantra' that I am given is that, it is my job to assess the resource allocation. The schedule is made on 'Primavera'.

My contention is this. When it takes 'Primavera' to arrive at a schedule, why is that no significance is given to the effort to manage time between jobs. The job schedule is based on merely the connectivities within the job. The connectivities are for example, the finish of PID approval for the start of the Piping layouts. I think it is much more a complex task to plan several activities of about 10+ concurrently running jobs without any software aid. The holiday schedules of personnel being yet another constraint.

By having merely a job-independent schedule, what is arrived is also an unrealistic one. The other reasoning given is that the client project engineer wishes to see only the schedule of the job that he handles and not the inter-dependencies of other jobs. Despite the fact that the other jobs also belong to the same client.

Sajit

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Sun Dec 28 01:53:00 2003