Service and Delivery

Knowledge Element: Planning and Logistics

Definition of Knowledge Element:

Know how to plan the logistics of a system delivery project and how to schedule the resources that are needed in order to satisfy delivery commitments.

A very brief summary of the Knowledge:

Scheduling should start when it is known that the physical resources for the job are available and if possible, have been delivered to the site. The make up of an installation team should be considered based on the requirements of the work. The time taken for job completion must be estimated. The availability of the team must then be matched with customer availability and preferences. The team should then be assigned to the job and time slot and the customer informed of the start and likely completion dates.

A summary of expert opinion:

The knowledge named 'Planning and Logistics' is considered to be very important.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be slightly difficult to replace, it is mostly learned from experience, and Less than 6% of the Group are Experts.
It is also knowledge mostly used generally, and generally stable knowledge.
See Parameter table below for more detail.

Risk:

This knowledge element has a risk value of 5.63, whilst the average risk for the whole knowledge structure is 4.862. Consult the RISK page for more details.

The average risk of the prerequisite family of this knowledge node is 4.762 (adjusting for nodes with few members of the prerequisite family).

This figure for the average risk of the prerequisite family is in the top ten percent of high risk for this knowledge study.

The average normalised prerequisite family risk of the whole map 2.122, whilst the average for the top ten percent family risk is 5.152.

Knowledge linked by learning dependency:

Postrequisite knowledge implies that Planning and Logistics must be understood before for a person can gain a full understanding of the knowledge listed in the top row of the Linked Knowledge table.

Prerequisite knowledge (bottom row in the Linked Knowledge table), is knowledge that should be understood before a full understanding of Planning and Logistics is possible.

This node has a prerequisite family consiting of 25 nodes, including the direct prerequisite knowledge shown above.

Parameters assigned for Planning and Logistics.

People Involved with Planning and Logistics:

Computed Similarity

The most similar node to Planning and Logistics is Procurement.

The most dissimilar node to Planning and Logistics is Typical system configurations.