Hey there, welcome everybody out to podcast number
1663.
In this podcast I'm going to talk about
what happens if we're missing the component of
procurement and we are lacking supply chain management.
If you're interested in that, please stay with
us.
Welcome everybody, I hope you're doing well and
staying safe out there.
I'm pretty excited.
I'm on my way to a boot camp
in Florida.
There's 100 people there, can you believe that?
100 people, super cool.
It's going to be the largest one from
a numbers standpoint that we've hosted.
Took me a long time to get ready
for it actually.
We had to buy so much more supplies,
so many more supplies.
Anyway, so very very exciting.
Also an update on the field engineer book,
the field engineering methods manual.
It was complete and then sent that to
Wes Crawford and Brandon Montero and they had
some final comments.
So Kate was moving through that and with
AI getting better and better each day, we
figured we would do an audit.
So Kate's all the way up to chapter
six and it only has 11 chapters.
She's in seven right now and it's going
good.
So hopefully that comes out soon.
Also we're going to have a field engineer
boot camp in December, first week of December.
So I'm going to start advertising for that
here pretty soon as well.
So really excited.
Let's talk about the topic at hand.
What happens if a component is missing?
By the way, one thing I hope to
do with this is to create a, I
don't know if you would call it a
matrix or a point of reference, but basically
the information so that we could create an
online assessment.
Meaning somebody could come on to the website
and say which component, or basically score their
components and we could say a couple of
things.
Number one, what will happen if that pattern
emerges and those components are not in place
and how to fix it and in what
order to fix it.
And I think that would be really cool.
I learned that from Marcus Sheridan to have
something like that right there on the website.
So that's where we're heading with it.
Now procurement, you all know, we procure materials,
certain types of equipment, especially if the project
has to purchase it and information.
And this is all part of the supply
chain and we must manage the supply chain
with the construction project.
Not exactly like they're at the same tack
time or anything like that, but like they're
one production system.
Meaning a lot of times we think, oh
hey, here's the construction schedule.
And then you know, this procurement thing is
some separate distant log that we have.
And that's just not the case.
We cannot afford to look at it like
that.
The supply chain is a part of the
same procurement or production system.
So managing it is absolutely crucial.
And managing it looks like that we have
a procurement log or procurement on the production
plan early on.
And that we start very, very soon with
long-lead procurement, even in design, like right
away, design and pre-construction.
And then we manage it constantly, at least
every week between PM and super.
And we're managing the individual steps.
We've broken it down and we know what
to do to recover the supply chain.
Okay.
So that is what it looks like to
me.
And if you integrate advanced work packaging, which
will package the project all the way at
the beginning of design properly, so that you
can finish the design, buy out and procure
these individual packages in the right order, that
is ideal as well.
So the bottom line is we're trying to
connect everywhere possible, the building of the work
or the assembly of the work with the
supply chain.
So that everything is targeted or basically landing
or arriving at the due date on the
production plan.
And we're not just building once we get
the materials, meaning everything is synchronized to the
project, beginning with the end in mind.
Okay.
If you don't have these systems up and
running, let me go through these one by
one.
If you don't start early, there's a hundred
percent chance that you will have a major
impact in your production plan.
So if you don't start the procurement efforts
in design and pre-construction and talk to
your owner about an early financial release for
these materials or find some arrangement or ask
them to purchase it directly, then you will
have a massive impact.
The other thing is if you don't package,
oh, this is a good one.
If you don't package everything properly, either in
a traditional method or with advanced work packaging,
then you will procure the right materials in
the wrong order, the wrong sequence and at
the wrong times.
Meaning, let me give you an example.
There was a project in downtown Scottsdale where
the, we actually took over for a different
contractor and I looked at it and the
exterior curtain wall was ordered North, East, South,
West, but actually you could finish the building
up to about six weeks earlier.
If you did a different sequence, Northeast, East,
South, West side, South, East side, West side,
Southwest, Southeast, Northwest, North middle.
And that, that was the ideal sequence, but
because early on they didn't package it properly,
they didn't sequence it properly.
They didn't have the supply chain coming on
time.
Okay.
The other thing is if you are not
on time in the right order, let me
clarify that.
The other thing is if you're not meeting
weekly, you will, even if you started early
enough, you will not see problems in the
supply chain as you go and you will
lose track of those problems.
You will find them out late.
And even if you did start early enough,
you won't have the right materials at the
right time.
And the other thing is if you're not
managing this properly with enough time, you're not
going to do submittal reviews properly.
And the architect is going to feel rushed
and they're not rushed.
And they're not going to do submittal reviews
properly, break it out properly.
And you might even, once all of that's
done, have the wrong materials in the first
place.
So this is a really big component.
If we're missing this, we're in big, big
trouble.
And that's why this is probably one of
the, it's this one's right up there with
the team and having a production plan.
Because, you know, I heard a quote one
time, if you can get this stuff here,
we can build it.
And that's, that's fairly, fairly well true.
So if we're missing this bottom line, we
won't have the materials to build the building.
So I hope you've enjoyed this podcast.
On we go.