The project manager, who is the core of the project, plays an important role in the project implementing. The important duty for them is to lead their team to achieve the aim timely with high quality.
Hills is planning to establish a new plant which mainly manufactures the rubber parts for Honda cars in Thailand, it can get a lot of benefits, especially the cheaper rubber resources, because Thailand has become the biggest rubber producing and exporting country in the world since 1991. However, establishing a new plant there, its project manager will confront several important issues.
The first is to prevent the natural disaster and control the cost. The natural condition of Thailand is not stable because it often suffers from the natural disasters, such as the flood, earthquake and tsunami. For these unpredictable factors, the project manager should choose the appropriate place to build the plant. In addition, the natural disaster will seriously impacts the output of rubber, and then impacts the price of rubber which causes the price will be higher than before. In this condition, for preventing this problem happening, the project manager should sign the produce agreement with supplier or ask the material department to reserve a certain amount of rubber. Moreover, to get more profit, the project manager should try his or her best to reduce the cost. So, he or she needs to plan a project to reasonably and adequately use the resources, and to reduce waste as possible as he or she can.
The second is the project manager should divide the total aim into several small aims, and then mark off the main work content and workload, and make sure that the phase aim of project is normally implemented. In addition, for ensuring the project can be accomplished on time, the p ...