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Hey there, welcome everybody out to podcast number

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1663.

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In this podcast I'm going to talk about

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what happens if we're missing the component of

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procurement and we are lacking supply chain management.

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If you're interested in that, please stay with

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us.

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Welcome everybody, I hope you're doing well and

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staying safe out there.

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I'm pretty excited.

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I'm on my way to a boot camp

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in Florida.

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There's 100 people there, can you believe that?

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100 people, super cool.

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It's going to be the largest one from

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a numbers standpoint that we've hosted.

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Took me a long time to get ready

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for it actually.

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We had to buy so much more supplies,

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so many more supplies.

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Anyway, so very very exciting.

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Also an update on the field engineer book,

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the field engineering methods manual.

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It was complete and then sent that to

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Wes Crawford and Brandon Montero and they had

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some final comments.

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So Kate was moving through that and with

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AI getting better and better each day, we

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figured we would do an audit.

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So Kate's all the way up to chapter

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six and it only has 11 chapters.

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She's in seven right now and it's going

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good.

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So hopefully that comes out soon.

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Also we're going to have a field engineer

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boot camp in December, first week of December.

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So I'm going to start advertising for that

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here pretty soon as well.

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So really excited.

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Let's talk about the topic at hand.

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What happens if a component is missing?

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By the way, one thing I hope to

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do with this is to create a, I

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don't know if you would call it a

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matrix or a point of reference, but basically

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the information so that we could create an

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online assessment.

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Meaning somebody could come on to the website

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and say which component, or basically score their

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components and we could say a couple of

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things.

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Number one, what will happen if that pattern

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emerges and those components are not in place

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and how to fix it and in what

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order to fix it.

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And I think that would be really cool.

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I learned that from Marcus Sheridan to have

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something like that right there on the website.

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So that's where we're heading with it.

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Now procurement, you all know, we procure materials,

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certain types of equipment, especially if the project

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has to purchase it and information.

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And this is all part of the supply

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chain and we must manage the supply chain

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with the construction project.

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Not exactly like they're at the same tack

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time or anything like that, but like they're

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one production system.

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Meaning a lot of times we think, oh

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hey, here's the construction schedule.

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And then you know, this procurement thing is

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some separate distant log that we have.

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And that's just not the case.

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We cannot afford to look at it like

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that.

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The supply chain is a part of the

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same procurement or production system.

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So managing it is absolutely crucial.

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And managing it looks like that we have

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a procurement log or procurement on the production

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plan early on.

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And that we start very, very soon with

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long-lead procurement, even in design, like right

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away, design and pre-construction.

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And then we manage it constantly, at least

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every week between PM and super.

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And we're managing the individual steps.

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We've broken it down and we know what

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to do to recover the supply chain.

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So that is what it looks like to

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me.

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And if you integrate advanced work packaging, which

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will package the project all the way at

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the beginning of design properly, so that you

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can finish the design, buy out and procure

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these individual packages in the right order, that

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is ideal as well.

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So the bottom line is we're trying to

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connect everywhere possible, the building of the work

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or the assembly of the work with the

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supply chain.

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So that everything is targeted or basically landing

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or arriving at the due date on the

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production plan.

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And we're not just building once we get

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the materials, meaning everything is synchronized to the

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project, beginning with the end in mind.

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If you don't have these systems up and

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running, let me go through these one by

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If you don't start early, there's a hundred

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percent chance that you will have a major

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impact in your production plan.

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So if you don't start the procurement efforts

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in design and pre-construction and talk to

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your owner about an early financial release for

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these materials or find some arrangement or ask

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them to purchase it directly, then you will

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have a massive impact.

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The other thing is if you don't package,

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oh, this is a good one.

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If you don't package everything properly, either in

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a traditional method or with advanced work packaging,

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then you will procure the right materials in

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the wrong order, the wrong sequence and at

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the wrong times.

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Meaning, let me give you an example.

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There was a project in downtown Scottsdale where

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the, we actually took over for a different

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contractor and I looked at it and the

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exterior curtain wall was ordered North, East, South,

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West, but actually you could finish the building

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up to about six weeks earlier.

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If you did a different sequence, Northeast, East,

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South, West side, South, East side, West side,

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Southwest, Southeast, Northwest, North middle.

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And that, that was the ideal sequence, but

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because early on they didn't package it properly,

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they didn't sequence it properly.

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They didn't have the supply chain coming on

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time.

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The other thing is if you are not

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on time in the right order, let me

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clarify that.

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The other thing is if you're not meeting

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weekly, you will, even if you started early

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enough, you will not see problems in the

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supply chain as you go and you will

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lose track of those problems.

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You will find them out late.

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And even if you did start early enough,

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you won't have the right materials at the

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right time.

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And the other thing is if you're not

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managing this properly with enough time, you're not

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going to do submittal reviews properly.

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And the architect is going to feel rushed

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and they're not rushed.

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And they're not going to do submittal reviews

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properly, break it out properly.

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And you might even, once all of that's

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done, have the wrong materials in the first

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place.

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So this is a really big component.

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If we're missing this, we're in big, big

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trouble.

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And that's why this is probably one of

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the, it's this one's right up there with

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the team and having a production plan.

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Because, you know, I heard a quote one

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time, if you can get this stuff here,

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we can build it.

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And that's, that's fairly, fairly well true.

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So if we're missing this bottom line, we

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won't have the materials to build the building.

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So I hope you've enjoyed this podcast.

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On we go.