Project Scheduling

One example of a project for Costco is building a new store (warehouse).
The tasks involved in this project from start to finish are :
site selection,market research for the area,warehouse design, obtaining building permits,excavating,building the foundation, electrical heating and plumbing,interior painting/design and fixtures,exterior painting,stocking of warehouse,hiring of employees,grand opening of warehouse. Not to mention incorporating the four dimensions of quality which are Quality of design,Quality of Conformance,the "bilities" Availability, Reliability and Maintainability and Field service. These are all detailed in the earlier section of the blog.

A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule given various data items from company reports. Gantt charts illustrate the start and finish dates of a project.
Examples of projects at Costco, as previously mentioned, include building warehouses and distribution centers. These projects have many different aspects, each of which must be controlled it their own manner.
The wide arrangement of projects taken upon by Costco as a whole demonstrate the true nature of project management: the wide arrangement of areas and things to do concerning projects.

One of the major issues of project scheduling, as with many other companies, was that all of those involved in the scheduling were unable to come together in a unified method- every aspect of it seemed to be independent of one another. Through sitefolio, a project software (now a full company), Costco has mainstreamed its project scheduling and communication possibilities. This has enabled Costco to meet time commitments it previously was unable to meet without the software.
The entire case study of Costco under sitefolio can be found at: http://www.sitefolio.com/cutsheets/costco_case_study.pdf

Recommendations

Costco can use previous mistakes and unexpected errors during projects in order to forecast planning future projects. Costco could continue to use sitefolio in order to save money as they have been doing thus date since the software has been implemented.