THE COLLABORATIVE

PROJECT

MANAGEMENT

PLATFORM

The new way to manage projects! Kandor Solutions

aPLANz

What is aPLANz?

A project management platform

Connects teams, vendors and service providers

Uses Social Networking features to provide engaging user experience

Allows rich collaboration among team members

Alerts, Notifications and Reports to keep your project on track

Project Management - I

Create Multiple Projects

For each project, you can:

Plan activities and milestones

Assign responsibilities

Assign due dates

Define Checklists for every milestone

Project Management - II

Update status of activity

Complete milestones

Update and share Project / Team Calendar

Upload and share documents / photographs / drawings

Provide notifications to team members

Generate Reports and Review the Project progress

Managing New Store Opening

NSO is a regular activity for most of retailers

The journey – Signing up for the property to Opening of the store - is full of surprises

Delay in opening hurts a lot – in rentals as well as loss of sale – very difficult to make up later

aPLANz reduces uncertainty, stress for the team members and helps in delivering on time!

NSO using aPLANz - I

Each New Store is defined as a separate project

Team members from IT, Projects, Merchandising, Operations, PMC, Vendors are assigned tasks

All Activities and their dependence is planned

Users can update their tasks as well as review the progress and view the Project Calendar

The Document Management feature allows central storage of all the documents under various categories

NSO using aPLANz - II

Users can update milestone completion by confirming each item in the checklist associated with that milestone

Users can upload evidence such as photographs, drawings, scanned documents, etc.

Project Manager can view the project progress, look at recent updates in a very easy to use dashboard

User Interface

aPLANz is built using Social Programming tools and techniques

Ample use of AJAX / Web 2.0 controls helps in reducing number of clicks / keyboard entries making user more productive

Very easy to use tool; needs no training at all

Integration with MS Project, MS Excel, Outlook, BBM as well as supports smartphone and tablet browsers

Create Project – New or From Defined Templates

Set Milestones

Detailed Each Milestone- Tasklist-Tasks -Issues

Assign Responsibilities and Set Timelines

GNATT Chart - Graphical Expandable / Collapsible View of the Project

Manage the Project – Collaborate and Monitor Progress

Have Calendar View – Manage and Plan the Day Effectively

aPLANz Vs MS Project

A desktop tool

Sharing and collaboration not

possible

No support for calendaring and

Document storage

Per user licensing cost

A web tool

Built for sharing and collaboration

Rich support for calendaring and Document Storage

Flat per month subscription for the organization

Import and export from/to MS Project file format (XML)

Support for Mobile phones via RSS readers for updates on project activities

MS Project aPLANz

• Demo / POC

• Purchase Order

• Setup

• User And Admin Training

• Porting in-flight projects to the tool

• Go Live

Next Steps

Thank you!

Contact:

Vinay Hinge

Email: vinay.hinge@kandorsol.com

Cell: +91-98201-48100