APPLICATION

Project Plan Overview (PPO)

Project Title: Developing a new manufacturing line for clothing products

Department: Production

Last Updated: 03.04.2021

Author: Apseleam Elif, Bedreaga Irina, Nicolescu Alina

Project Manager(s): Apseleam Elif

Executive Sponsor: Bedreaga Irina

Project Department Owner: Nicolescu Alina

1. Project Business Case

Project Overview

 The project envisages the opening of a textile factory in a disadvantaged area, by accessing
European funds.
 The total estimated budget is approximately $ 80,500.
 The place where the activity will take place is in Tg. Carbunesti, Gorj County.
 The project development period is from 01.04.2021 to 31.12.2021.

Business Issue/Opportunity

 Textile production is one of the most important branches of the national economy, both in terms
of contribution to Romanian exports and in terms of employment.
 As consumer incomes increased, their clothing preferences diversified, with increasing attention
being paid tor quality products with a modern design. Therefore, the establishment of a textile
factory is one of the business ideas with great potential in 2019.
 Currently, in Târgu-Cărbunești, in Gorj County, there was no factory opened during communism
to operate. A large part of the younger population migrated to the big cities, with labor, because
the homeland cannot offer them a good future. Those who remain in the area do not have the
opportunity to find jobs, many of them choosing to live on social assistance or end up commuting
daily in Târgu-Jiu or in other small but less developed cities.
 The former halls where the former factories used to operate still exist, but they are abandoned
for over a decade.
 Talking to former employees of factories in the textile industry living in the area, we found out
how much production was done in the past in this area, textiles being exported to all corners of
Europe. They used to work in these factories, being seamstresses, confectioners, or unskilled
 workers. Some of them kept this profession, making suits, dresses, and other clothing items
from home.

Project Business Goal

 With the help of the Start-Up Nation program, the project aims to open a new company in one
of those halls, thus contributing to the Romanian economy, but also by creating new jobs in this
area the risk of depopulation of the area will be reduced.

2. Project justification
Problem Statement

 Lack of jobs for people in the area.

 Population migration.
 Closure of factories.
 Production migration to big cities.
 Lack of production in disadvantaged areas
 Declining country's economy.
 Difficult living of the inhabitants.
 Inability to develop the area.

Organizational Impact

 Rehabilitation of the abandoned building

 Employment.
 Asphalting of access roads.
 Creating a collaboration contract with a transport company in the area.
 Internship program for students.

Anticipated Outcomes

 Create new jobs in a disadvantaged area

 Decrease unemployment in the area.
 Growth of the country's economy.
 Decrease depopulation of the area.
 Decrease overcrowding of large cities.
 3. Project goal /aim
Project goal

 Opening of the textile factory.

 Making textile products.
 Rehabilitation of the industrial area of the city.
 Creating special public transport routes for employees.
 Future perspectives for students from specialized high schools.

4. Project Objectives

Primary Project Objectives

 Making textile products.

 Creating new jobs.
 Capitalizing on the investment and obtaining the expected results.
 Activation of economic potential.
 Development of the area.
 Decreasing the number of social workers in the area.

5. Project Benefits

Project Benefits

 Creating jobs in an area with a high unemployment rate, compared to opening a factory in
a better area from a demographic point of view.
 The construction of the factory already exists, requiring a small investment to recondition
it, compared to the construction of an entire factory.
 Potential future employees are already familiar with the work in the field, compared to
opening a factory in an area with no history from this point of view.
 Reducing the risk of depopulation of the area by creating new jobs.
 Contribution to the Romanian economy by increasing exports.

6. Project Major Risks

Project Major Risks

 The risk of not receiving funding.

 The risk of natural disasters.
 The risk of not receiving raw materials on time.
 The risk of exceeding the budget.
  The risk of not finding competent workforce.
 The risk of not receiving the necessary approvals.

7. Project boundaries

IN Scope

 This project will affect EU. operations only.

 Contracts will be concluded only with legal entities.
 Only the building in which the production activity will take place will be rehabilitated.
 The building will provide an adequate employees base.
 Implement a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to manage contacts for sales.
 Create basic products and a business pipeline which is the flow of information or actual
products, like a 'flow' of goods from manufacturing, generated by supply and demand -
this connection between factory and customer.
OUT OF Scope

 All other locations outside the EU. are out of scope.

 Natural persons are out of scope.
 The rest of the buildings are out of scope.
 This project will not include an email campaign.

8. Project Assumptions

Project Assumptions

 All the required resources will be received.

 All the deadlines will be respected.
 The supplier will deliver the consumables on time.
 All the paperwork will be approved and received on time.
 The City Hall will collaborate in order to develop the area.
 All machines will operate in optimal parameters.

9. Project Constraints

Project Constraints

 The rehabilitation process of the building must respect the deadlines established in order
to not delay the start of the following activities.
 Respecting the budget.
 The activities must be performed without exceeding the established budget.
 The amount of resources initially established will be sufficient throughout the project. Thus,
no additional costs will occur.