Project Scheduling

Costco has expanded its warehouses to 529 locations, in 7 countries. It has recently began a project to open several locations in Melbourne, Australia

A Costco spokesman, who is in Australia investigating outlet opportunities, said that Melbourne was a "good opportunity" and the company "would like to be part of the Melbourne landscape".
The company is understood to be keen to launch in Australia as soon as possible, but it may be up to six months before the first warehouse is opened. New Location

To be able to open up the warehouse in 2008 Costco relies on Sitefolio™ , an innovative software application offering the retail industries a centralized and customizable solution for managing a portfolio of construction projects and building sites.

Tasks required in this project included collecting historical information regarding the previous building projects on the same site, collection data about the permit process in the jurisdiction, site easements, and obstacles with the original construction or remodel.

Using the software also made it possible to generate, centralize and provide team access to project status reports, contracts and all required communication at varying levels of detail whenever needed.
Costco uses modules that generate a weekly review report and Gantt charts.

Costco's project scheduling allows it to have a new warehouse up and running in just 120 days.

We would recommend for Costco to state that the project will take several weeks more than the usual 120, this will leave room for error and also will impress the public when the project is completed ahead of schedule.