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Kath HeenanMember for 11 years 8 months
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Hi there

Ive recently moved to a new company and went from using P6 to MS Project, i havent had any training on MS Project and basically taught myself over the last 5 weeks. Trouble is its not a great resource utilisation tool - i may be wrong on this so please dont shoot me down for saying that! 

Anyway my post is really to ask which tool is the best software to use for a small oil company with a manufacturing workshop to enable forecasting and resource utilisation along with 'whatif' analysis. P6 is quite expensive and im not sure i would be able to convince them of the costs involved.

Thanks in advance

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    Mohamed Rajakani ·
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    I have been assigned to

    I have been assigned to prepare a masterplan Progress Tracking Tools Piping for EPC Chlorine project , starting from Large Boring Piping Prefabrication ,Large Boring Pipe Supports Prefabrication ,Large Boring Pipe Supports Erection ,Small Boring Pipe Erection ,Punch Listing ,Flushing Testing and PreCommissioning ,Lines Instatement,procurement,constructioin/installation , testing and commisioning of pipeline.
    I am in need of a sample Progress Tracking for Piping Templates for EPC project....
    Thank you in Advance
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    Murray Geddes ·
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    To be fair, the term "Best"

    To be fair, the term "Best" is subjective.

    Most software packages available are able to cost load & resource, but some are more functional than others.

    Having used a large number of the commercially available planning packages aimed at the construction sector, I found that both CS Project & Asta PowerProject were both functional and cost effective, with a relatively short learning curve if you are able to use another planning package at a reasonably profficient level.

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    Stephen Devaux ·
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    My only comment is that it is

    My only comment is that it is hard for me to imagine using a project management software package that does not provide the most critical metric of critical path analysis: drag. Neither Primavera nor Asta Spider, nor most other packages, computes critical path drag. Spider project computes drag on both CPM and resource schedules.

    Fraternally in project management,

    Steve the Bajan

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    Rafael Davila ·
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    Deleted by Rafael Davila as

    Deleted by Rafael Davila as to avoid annoying requests to revive this discussion as it is older tha 3 years.
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