Companies regularly undertake projects to maintain their competitiveness by adapting and embracing change. Multi-project management (MPM) is crucial for companies as it enables efficient planning and control of multiple projects, ensuring they are executed effectively and delivered on time. It helps to optimise resource allocation, minimise conflicts, and maximise overall project success, ultimately contributing to the organisation's competitiveness and growth. However, existing MPM models often lack a specific focus on the goals and requirements of the factory setting, as they aim for broad applicability. A process model should consider the project context and the interdependencies among its tasks. To address this, a new concept is necessary to efficiently plan and control a multi-project environment within a factory. To develop a suitable process model for MPM in a factory, insights from MPM practices and the production environment are required. Including those insights, project landscapes can be planned and controlled effectively and efficiently. This article provides a summary of the approach developed by the Institute of Production Systems and Logistics, with a particular emphasis on the relationships between actuating, control, and target variables.
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