This 11 page paper looks at a proposed development of a supermarket. The paper starts by looking the different consideration that should take place before the company commit themselves to the project. The paper then looks at scheduling and timing, produces a Gantt chart and then looks at the impact of crashing the project, with a nee schedule and increased costs so assess if this will be beneficial. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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to make sure that the project was viable and that the breakeven point and payback period, as well as other potential measures such the net present value, internal rate of
return and profitability index were al within the companies accepted limits (Slack et al, 2000) In addition to this there will also
need to have been other investigations, an assessment to ensure that the required planning permission would be forthcoming and a search to ensure that there are no future plans for
the area which would render the investment less valuable (Heerkens, 2001). For example, the location maybe currently on a busy road with a lot of passing traffic, if there were
plans to build a bypass this could drastically reduce the revenue projections with the loss of passing traffic. The location would also
have to have been assessed and the revenue projections create with consideration of the local target market and the level of competition as well as aspects such as the availability
and cost of local labour. There would be great difficulty in setting up a store where the local market is not the target demographic and the running costs could increased
substantially where there is a very low rate of unemployment and labour costs are at a premium (Wiegers, 1999). The way in which the project is to go ahead
would also have to be carefully considered, The site currently has a derelict building that needs to be cleared. There are always dangers with Brownfield sites that there could be
unexpected costs in demolition of a building, such as finding unexpected asbestos or other dangers. By entering into a contract where the seller is paid more but undertake the task
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