Using the SAS ® Projman Application for Scheduling Projects

SAS/OR software has four major procedures that can be used to manage projects. The CPM and PM procedures are used to schedule tasks for a project subject to precedence, time, and resource constraints. The PM procedure is the interactive version of the CPM procedure. The Gantt procedure displays this schedule, and the Netdraw procedure displays the project network consisting of these tasks. These four procedures are integrated into the Projman application which is a friendly graphical user interface included as part of the SAS/OR software. This tutorial will cover the usage of these four procedures and the Projman application. The early part of the tutorial will cover the definition of terminology that is critical for understanding the output results. Then example projects containing resource, time, and precedence constraints will be scheduled using the Projman application. Finally two SAS macros that allow the conversion back and forth between data of Microsoft Project and the PM procedure will be discussed.