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Multiple Job Sites in project (Newbie!)

Multiple Job Sites in project (Newbie!)

Multiple Job Sites in project (Newbie!)

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I am a newbie to MS Project, I plan to use it to help me with a major project I am working on a the moment. This project involves building, installing and testing electrical panels, each panel gets installed at a different site.

I want to know if I can define each site as an entity, so I can look at just the one site and see all activities scheduled for it etc. I was thinking of putting each site as a resource, but I want to be able to see the resources allocated to each site and when they are there etc. Each site would also get a unique name for tracking and a priority for schedulding. I will not always work exactly to the priority schedule, as I will try to have the guys working in the same geographical area each day.

E.g. of actions for each site:
Panel gets Designed by engineer (resource: Engineer)
Panel gets approved by customer
Panel gets manufactured in factory (resource: build team 1 or 2)
Panel gets installed  (resource: install team 1 or 2 + electrical team 1 or 2)
Panel gets tested (resouce: project manager)

After each resource is finished with that site, they move on to the next site, there will be a lot of pipelining happening. (e.g. while project manager is tesing site 1, install team is installing site 3, factory is manufacturing site 5 and engineer is designing site 7, sites 2, 4, 6, and 8 are also in a parallel pipeline.)

Is there another dimension to project that will allow this? I would like to be able to do a report per site to show how long each one took, when it is scheduled to be online etc.

Thanks for your help!!
Cheers,
Scotty.

RE: Multiple Job Sites in project (Newbie!)

Try using the customised text or number fields that project has. For each site allocate a unique code then using the autofilter you will be able to see which ever site you require and if you set up your own filters you cen see the pipeline as well.
Will

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