Timberjack parts case study

Directions

Using the attached Harvard Business School Case Study No. 9-398-085 “Timberjack Parts: Package Software Selection Project” (Revised February 25, 1998), answer the following questions based on the techniques and concepts presented in class and available in the textbooks.

All the attached presentations.

Submission

Questions

1. (30% grade) Complete Exhibit 8 “Evaluation Criteria and Weights” (the table depicted below) for the final two cost proposals of the Timberjack Parts Package Software Selection Project (the “Procurement”), such that you can complete the final statement of the case study “The group has reached a consensus,” and determine the appropriate company to select. Within your analysis determining the selected company (Oracle or QAD), provide an explanation for your determination for of the assigned “factor weights” for each company and highlight those that determined the winning company. That is, state why/how the winning company was determined by your analysis.

Exhibit 8: Evaluation Criteria and Weights

Factor Weight QAD Oracle

Support 20

Functionality 30

User Interface 10

Flexibility 20

Future Prospects 10

Reliability 20

Integration 30

Platform 20

Total 160

2. (30% Grade) Complete a Procurement Evaluation of the Timberjack Parts procurement process similar to that from the Project Procurement Analysis assignment using the evaluation criteria and categories identified below. Should an individual category not be able to be evaluated from the case study, identify it as “Indeterminable.”

Numeric Evaluation Criteria: 1 = lowest/worst, 5 = highest/best

Evaluation Categories:

· Scope Management

· Time Management

· Cost Management

· Quality Management

· Resource Management

· Communications

· Risk Management

· Procurement Integration

3. (30% Grade) Identify and discuss areas of strength (what worked well) and weakness (areas for which there is an opportunity to improve) for the Timberjack Parts procurement process.

4. (10% Grade) Using the criteria identified within Chapter 2 “Placing Procurements into Generic Categories,” of the Project Procurement Management (Fleming) textbook, assign the Timberjack Parts procurement into the appropriate category and state why your assignment is appropriate (using the defections and criteria found within the chapter).

1. Major (High Risk) Complexity Procurement(s)

2. Minor (Low Risk) Complexity Procurement(s)

3. Routine buys of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS)

4. Special Procurements: Performed Under Strategic Teaming Agreements

5. Special Procurements: Intra-Company / Inter-Divisional