Formation of development programs with multi-purpose projects at ferrous metallurgy enterprises

Abstract

The improvement of management mechanisms for the formation and calendar planning of development programs is the most important direction for improving the productivity (achievement of goals) and efficiency (reduction of the amount of resources consumed) of the activities of metallurgical companies. Currently, it is necessary to ensure the mobilization of companies’ assets to solve the tasks of their sustainable development. The task of forming a program for the development of a metallurgical enterprise (company) is considered. The program includes several different areas of development: improvement of existing business processes (sales, supply, production, repair of equipment, etc.), production technologies of various stages (production of coke, agglomerate, cast iron, steel, rolled products), implementation of digital transformation tasks, etc. Each of the directions of the development program contains projects described by effect, size of investments, changes in the expenditure items of operating budget related to the costs of operating those systems and processes that the project is aimed at improving, as well as an indicator describing the risk of project implementation. One of the directions of the development program may include multi-purpose projects, the implementation of which leads not only to changes in its own performance indicators, but also to changes in the performance indicators of projects of other (non-multi-purpose) directions of such development program. The case is considered when management of the development program includes the management of the overall budget and achievement of overall goal of the program (the maximum effect from implementation of all projects). At the same time, project risk management and changes in the operating budget are implemented at the level of project portfolio management of individual program areas (there are no restrictions on risks and changes in the operating budget common to the development program). The stated formalizations of the problems, their decomposition and composition schemes, and the developed procedures for solving individual subtasks are based on the provisions and methods of the theories of system analysis and a new section of discrete mathematics (network programming).