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      Schedule workflow: background

      • The coordination of deadlines and their timeliness are essential drivers to bring a project transparently and successfully to the finish line
      • For this purpose, up to four schedules (baseline, customer, plan, supplier) can be maintained in COMAN. Additionally, there is the ACTUAL schedule which is generated by tracking
      • By default, only two schedules are active (baseline and plan), customer and supplier can be added
      • All schedules can be freely configured in their behavior and wording
      • Normally, the baseline schedule at the beginning of a project is frozen after a certain time (e.g. 8 weeks) and can only be changed in COMAN in edit mode
      • Changes in the schedule are then only made in the plan schedule, depending on the project definition, the process may follow certain formalities
      • In COMAN, you need the appropriate authorization to edit the plan schedule. If a supplier does not have this authorization, he cannot change any appointments -> However, changes in the schedule are the rule and not the exception (depending on the process) and should therefore also be communicated accordingly by the supplier in COMAN.
      • Through the RampUp curves over all schedules, COMAN offers a quick overview of the schedule situation at any time
      • If certain dates may not be changed by the supplier, COMAN offers the possibility to define this transaction-related
      • The more formal way of coordinating appointments with COMAN between the client and the contractor is made possible by the COMAN schedule workflow
      • The workflow is based on three schedules, e.g. "supplier schedule", "plan schedule" and "baseline schedule"
      • Basically, supplier and plan schedules are active in COMAN, which can be synchronized by the users via the progress table, for example
      • The supplier is free to change the supplier schedule, but the evaluation of the current project progress is based on the planned schedule
      • The planner can transfer the supplier schedule to the plan schedule if the schedule changes are valid
      • COMAN offers certain basic functionalities for this process, which are available in the progress table
      • Usually there is already a preconfigured profile in the progress table