ABSTRACT
All commercial organizations are obliged to undertake some information management. Payroll, purchase ledger, health and safety records, training certificates and the like apply to all, but, in moving from the non-project environment to the project, the Supplier Organization (SO) will face a step-change increase in the amount and range of information that they must manage. Many Supplier Organizations (SO) do so by establishing an enterprise-wide facility, and having procedures for the management of information as part of the project management method' they choose to adopt. Configuration Management is best viewed as being all that is said and done to control the physical and performance characteristics of the project deliverable throughout the extended lifecycle; from the point of conception, through specification, design, construction, operation and disposal. As an absolute minimum, the information management system of the Supplier Organization (SO) must contain a copy of the agreed incoming contract, including all approved variations.
