In 1919 Lionel Langley opened his first bakery store, which he named after his wife, Lilly. Initially he sold only breads, cakes, and flour to his customers. Through the years, the business expanded rapidly by opening additional bakeries, acquiring flour mills, and acquiring food-processing companies. After 81 years in business, the company is now a well-known, highly reputable, international corporation. Lilly Langley’s Baking Goods Company (LLBGC) has more than 15,000 employees, operates in 50 countries, and offers a wide variety of products.

Frederica Frampton, LLBGC’s chief information officer, has just returned from a meeting with Chung Lau, LLBGC’s director of operations. They discussed the many problems the company is having with getting supplies and distributing products. In essence, the end users of the current operations/manufacturing systems are demanding information that the current system just cannot provide. The current information systems are inflexible.

1. Combining data housed in separate plant databases is difficult, if not impossible.
2. End users have difficulty generating ad hoc reports.
3. Scheduling the production lines is becoming quite tedious.

Costs to enhance the systems are becoming unwieldy, so now it is time to consider renovating these systems. Because of a top management directive, the systems must be operational within nine months.

Frederica Frampton recognizes the importance of the LLBGC operations/manufacturing systems renovation. She decides to assemble a team of her best systems analysts to develop new operations/manufacturing systems for LLBGC. You are assigned as a member of this team.

a. Lorraine Banderez, the project manager, has asked you to investigate how other companies have used project management software, particularly Microsoft Project. Investigate two companies and provide a brief summary of how each has used project management software.

b. Part of your responsibility is to assist in the preparation of the planning documents. Using the following information, prepare a Gantt chart.

c. Using the information from part b, prepare a Network diagram. Identify the critical path.

d. After reviewing your planning documents, Lorraine decides to modify several of the activity times. Revise both your Gantt chart and Network diagram to reflect these modifications.

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Activity No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Activity Requirements collection Requirements structuring Process analysis Data analysis Logical design Physical design Implementation Time (weeks) 3 4 3 3 5 5 6 Immediate Predecessors 1 2 2 3,4 5 6