The Purchasing Department's 3-Step Process: Planning, Shopping, and Monitoring & Reporting
Planning Process
The old adage “Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail” has never been truer or more costly than in the construction materials purchasing industry. Our Planning Process is specifically designed to mitigate the compounding risks that result from poor planning or no planning and ensures successful outcomes for you and us. Here's how our process transforms planning into your project's cornerstone.
1. Project Design and Scope: Every project starts with your architectural plans. By submitting detailed construction drawings, you lay the groundwork for what's to come, ensuring every subsequent step is built on a solid base.
2. Precision Material Takeoffs: Utilizing your drawings, we employ our sophisticated system to generate a precise material takeoff, adhering to the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)'s MasterFormat divisions. In those situations where detailed plans aren't available, we use our innovative mobile app to generate the data points necessary to generate an accurate takeoff.
3. Purchase Planning: Our detailed takeoff does more than quantify material needs; it organizes initial purchases by trade. This not only streamlines material procurement but also enhances your labor bidding processes, offering a clearer, more cost-effective path forward.
4. Client Integration: Your history and preferences matter. By uploading your past purchase data and preferred suppliers into our system, which connects to an extensive network of over 2,000 suppliers, we tailor the planning process to your specific needs, ensuring efficiency and satisfaction.
Our Planning Process is the key to your project's purchasing success It's not just about avoiding failure; it's about setting a standard for your success, ensuring your projects benefit from precision planning and strategic purchasing.
Shopping Process
Our material experts leverage our proprietary software to source materials beyond traditional big box stores in order to get vendors competing for your business and find the best prices available in the marketplace. With our shopping process, we can significantly reduce lost productivity resulting from incorrect orders and eliminate the need for unexpected trips to various suppliers to return over purchased or wrongly purchased items. With our 3-step process — planning, shopping, and monitoring & reporting — we get your order right every time. And, you get the best materials at the best price - when you need them and where you need them.
Monitor Usage & Report Process
Monitoring and Reporting creates transparency and accountability across your project. We believe it's necessary to “Inspect what you expect”. We create a level of inspection to protect your assets and ensure the project is following the plan. We expect you will save time, make more money, and run a better projects using our service. By monitoring material usage and producing a variety of real-time reports throughout the project that identify potential failure points such as: purchasing non-project specified items; overpaying for products; out-of-stock; or wasting materials.
The Purchasing Department's 3-step process:
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