Using Jira for Stevedoring Project Management?

[night star]

I am currently working in a stevedoring project and exploring tools that can enhance our project planning, tracking, and communication processes. Given Jira's project management tool, I wanted to inquire whether it would be suitable for the specific needs of a stevedoring operation.

Key aspects of our project include:

• Coordinating schedules for planning vessel operations and cargo handling.
• Tracking real-time progress on tasks such as manpower & gear deployment, loading, unloading, and storage management.
• Managing teams across different department, multiple locations and shifts.
• Generating reports to monitor efficiency, resource utilization, and project timelines.

Could you please provide insights on Jira's capabilities in these areas, particularly for industries like ours? Additionally, if there are any specific features, templates, or integrations that align with stevedoring operations, I would appreciate your guidance.

I look forward to your response.

[Nikola Perisic]

Welcome @night star 

You can leverage Jira for your use case by creating a Jira Service Management project with Facilities Service management which is the closest template. You can always create a service project starting from scratch. 

Vessel operations and cargo handling can be created as request types where you can also include forms which can be filled out by your employees or managers.

As for the manpower, gear deployment,loading, unloading is the best to use the dashboards where you can use the gadgets where you can even visually represent this information by leveraging the pie chart and also the workload pie chart so you can track your manpower specifically.

For storage management, I would suggest to use the assets feature that will applied to your service management project: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/service-management/product-guide/getting-started/asset-and-configuration-management#how-it-works

As for managing the teams, I would suggest to use the Teams feature where you can really create your teams and specify them in your service management project.

As for the reports, there are some reports in service management project, but they are more focused on customer service teams. I would suggest that here you create your own reports.

For having the timeline, this is something that also could be handled by service management project as it supports the Calendar view not really the timeline. The timeline is in the software project. For this I would suggest on looking on the integrations of service projects with the timeline.