Raymonde Corporation is an electric forklift manufacturer in Syracuse, New York and is undergoing some dramatic business changes. Raymonde is undergoing immense cost pressures and finds themselves in a commodity marketplace (only the lowest cost equipment provider will survive). Crowne our "archnemesis" is taking market share away from Raymonde due to their production facility in Juarez, Mexico. Your company executives at Raymonde have decided to outsource non-core competencies from their Syracuse manufacturing facility. They have spent the past year determining what was core to the facility's success. Raymonde's management team would like to outsource the facility's drive unit assembly line. Your team has been selected to develop a project plan for this move. You have sent out an RFQ (see Appendix A) and have narrowed down your choices to two suppliers. They both have agreed to do everything in your quote and meet all of your high-quality standards. You sent an assessment team to check their production facilities and amazingly enough they both received the same score of 98%. Price will be the deciding factor in your choice (tooling is a one-time fee and must come out of your cost savings, see Appendix B). Your team needs to make a decision on the supplier and develop a project plan for this move (both suppliers are in Juarez, Mexico). Your boss would like this move done in ten months but realizes this may not be feasible and is waiting on your team to estimate the project's completion time. Your team knows the following:

1. A Project Plan (Write up and AON charts)
   1. Project Summary
   2. SMART - Goals/Objectives
   3. Statement of Work
      1. Scope Statement
      2. WBS
      3. Determine Supplier You will work with and potential savings
      4. Savings after Project Cost (this is a one time savings)
   4. Budget - Proposed - Bottoms Up
   5. Risk Management Plan/Risk Register
   6. RACI Chart
   7. Stakeholder Strategy Plan
   8. Payback Plan
      1. Cost Savings by moving the production line to Mexico
   9. Tasks
      1. Tasks - Who is responsible for what
   10. Network Diagram - Network Diagram showing the critical path and ES,EF,LS and LF