Assignment Requirement Your team has been assigned to help Christopher Martin determine what went wrong with the project and develop a presentation and recommendation for Terry Baker. Which of the two...

Running Head: ARIBA IMPLEMENTATION AT MED-X                1
ARIBA IMPLEMENTATION AT MED-X                         2
ARIBA IMPLEMENTATION AT MED-X
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Answer 1: Underperforming Component    3
Answer 2: Components within Budget    3
Answer 3: Combined Earned Value Data    4
Answer 4: Terry Baker and the Project Schedule    4
Answer 5: How much Longer will the Project Take?    5
Answer 6: Steps by Martin to Prevent Delays    5
Answer 7: Preventing Similar Problems    5
Definitions    6
Conclusion    8
References    9
Introduction
The case study “Ariba Implementation at MED-X: Managing Earned Value” emphasizes on Ariba. Ariba is an organization, which provides e-procurement solutions. It suggests solutions to companies to help in the expenditure incurred during procurement and to bring it down through its applications. Ariba applications here were developed to improvise the bottom-line outcomes further (Jeffery, Norton, Gershbeyn & Yung, 2017).
MED-X INC was a pharmaceutical company with multinational presence. Based in the United States of America (USA), it has a number of fifty-four plants in total and the headquarters are situated in Houston. MED-X, to decrease its expenditure on procurement intended to include Ariba’s platform.
Answer 1: Underperforming Component
The project implementation plan has two components:
i. Technical Infrastructure and
ii. Software Customization
When comparing the related data, it can be found that the component, technical infrastructure, is under performing. It can be said by observing that it is over budget and along with that, it is also behind the time schedule. The calculation of the Schedule Performance Indicator (SPI) of the technical Infrastructure Project is 0.944, the Control Ratio (CR) is 0.866 and the Cost Performance Index (CPI) is 0.917. Considering this, it can be said that the component of technical infrastructure is the underperforming component.
Answer 2: Components within Budget
The component of Software Customization is within budget whereas the component of Technical Infrastructure is over the set budget.
    Software Customization
    
    BAC
    948000
    EAC
    797819.45
    VAC
    1,50,180.55
    
    
    Technical Infrastructure
    
    BAC
    948000
    EAC
    1033410.5
    VAC
    -85,410.50
It can be seen that the Variance At Completion (VAC) is excess of $85,410.50 in the component of technical infrastructure in contrast to the Software Customization. Therefore, it can be said that the component of Software Customization is under the budget as planned originally.
Answer 3: Combined Earned Value Data
When the combined earned data is considered of both the projects, the numbers obtained were promising and positive. When the earned value data was calculated separately the software customization component seems to be doing very well with respect to the time taken for the project and also following the schedule plan of the budget (Jeffery et al., 2017).
In contrast to the technical infrastructure component, which were showing numbers not falling as per the plan and hurting the project. However, if the data is combined and the earned value is...