The Study On Planning & Control Of Mulitple-project R&d Programs

As the globalization process stepping forward, market competitions become more and more severe. For achieving core market competitiveness of the enterprise, it is necessary to maintain R&D new product development as the driven source of continuous sustainability of the enterprises. However, product R&D is characterized by high failure rate and high cost. In order to avoid the risk of new products development and increase profit, companies must strengthen the management of R&D process. R&D is a parallel multi-project management system engineering, whose aim is to coordinate and manage multiple projects, integrate all internal R&D resources, achieve effective control and ultimately efficiently use corporate resources, enhance business competitiveness.In the multi-project environment, there is the competition, sharing and conflict of resources between projects. The enterprise needs to balance and manage all sorts of resources to realize the control of new product research and development. However, with the limitation of resources, enterprises can't always manage well, which leads to over budget or miss the deadline, therefore reducing the competitiveness of the new product.This article is considering all the resources around new product R&D, including human power, financial support and materials into the cost of finishing the project. This thesis converts all resources for R&D of new products including human, financial and materials inputs into the cost of completed projects. It takes the progress of the project into the cost of finishing the project as well. At the same time, it also converts the schedule of projects into the cost of completed projects. In this way, all the resources needed to finish the project and the process management can be put on the same platform to plan & control. Therefore, allocation of all resources and the control of the progress for completed R&D projects can be unified into a platform for planning and controlling in the form of project cost.This thesis proposes the method for cost calculation for all resources and progress of projects for product R&D in multi-project environment. It also proposes the evaluation model of product R&D in multi- project for the balance of resources and the control of the progress. Through the research on this thesis, it provides experience and references for the progress plan and control of product R&D in multi-project.