Iron battery company is a medium-size engineering and manufacturing firm specialize in warehouse and martials handling system .The company purchases most of the subsystem and components for its produces and assembles them to satisfy customer requirements .Every IBC system is made to customer specification and most of the firm's work is in system design , assembly, installation and checkout . The firm's 250 employees are roughly equally divided among five division :engineering ,design, fabrication, customer service, and marketing. Recently, competition has forced the firm to expand into computerized warehousing systems despite its rather limited experience and expertise in that field. IBC has been awarded a large contract for robotic system for placement ,storage ,retrieval, and routine of shipping containers for truck and trail by the Midwest Parcel Distribution company .This system ,called he logistical online system ,LOGON, is to be developed and installed at Midwest's main distribution center in Chicago. The contract is fixed price at 14.5 million and includes design, fabrication, and installation at the center .IBC was awarded the contract because it was the lowest bid and has an outstanding record for quality and customer service. A clause in the contract imposes a penalty of 1000 daily for failure to meet the specified delivery date. At various time throughout the estimated 47 weeks project , personnel from the functional division of design , fabrication , procurement, and customer service will be involved , most on a full-time basis for between 4 and 18 weeks . In the past , the company has set up ad hoc project management teams comprised of a project coordinator and members from from the functional areas. These teams are then responsible for planning , scheduling , and budgeting the actual work to be done by the functional departments. team members serve primarily as liaisons to the functional area and work part-time on the teams. The LOGAN contract differs from other IBC systems, both in its heavy usage of computerized , real-time operation via remote terminals, and in its size. Although IBC has prior experience with real-time warehousing system, the technology involved is continuously evolving .IBC recently hired people with the backgrounds needed for the project . In addition, it has signed contracts with CRC and CreativeRobotics to provide the computer and robotics hardware, and assistance with system design, installation, and checkout. the LOGAN contract is among the largest IBC has ever undertaken .The company is presently in the middle of two other projects that absorb roughly three-fourths of its labor capacity, is winding down on a third that involves only the customer service division , and has two outstanding proposal for small projects under review . Discuss how you would organize the LOGAN project if you were the president of IBC. Discuss the alternatives available for the LOGAN project and the relative advantages and disadvantages of each. What assumption must be made?