Procurement & Supply Chain
Acquiring goods and supply chain services adds up to a great deal more than just the sticker price and distribution cost. The process to purchase those items includes significant administrative costs, often accounting for half of the purchase price. When you consider the vast number of purchases your building projects makes in a year, from prefab building components to specialized services, it's easy to see how these costs can spiral out of control.
Enterprixe web based Procurement & Supply Chain is an effective service to:
• Lower prices paid for goods and services.
• Shorten acquisition cycles.
• Increase the use of preferred suppliers.
• Reduce off-contract spending.
• Lean production “just-in-time”
• Online - dynamic control in the a BIM-model
Industry Research Holds the Proof
• Recent research from Gartner Group indicates that by automating purchasing transactions and processes using a web based electronic procurement solution, companies can reduce purchasing costs by up to 30%, translating to millions of dollars.
The Procurement & Supply Chain Module in Enterprixe.net brings simplicity, speed and better decision-making to this complex sourcing process. It's ideally suited to efficiently handle mid to large-scale, building projects with complex RFQ´s - allowing buyers and suppliers to move the subcontracting process online.
Our Procurement & Supply Chain Module gives all parties involved, prefab designer, fabricator, transporter, erection sub-contractor, and the main contractor, a secure web based system to create, modify, exploit and view all the critical information needed during the procurement and supply process across the whole chain.
Exploit our implementation methodology
To succeed and have a maximum benefits from the project one we have developed, for the project owner, a three step implementation methodology of the solution.
1. Project Scope
Goal: Qualify the Project potential of using the Procurement & supply chain module in Enterprixe.net.
Outcome: A Report on the potential benefits.
Term: 1-3 days
- Analyzing the supply chain processes: tasks, parties, relations, responsibilities.
- Recognizing, realizing the problems and risks in the current practice.
- Defining the most important problems to be solved.
- Choosing and qualifying the Project.
2. Project Workshop
Goal: Defining, planning, preparing arrangements, tasks, and activities for the Project.
Outcome: A detailed Plan for Implementing the Procurement & supply chain module in Enterprixe.net in the Project
Term: Depends on the project size (typically 1-2 weeks).
- Defining the tasks and responsibilities of each Party.
- Planning and preparing the training and support of the Parties.
- Planning and preparing the activities and efforts for getting the Parties committed.
- Defining the needed links to other related systems.
3. Project Implementation
Goal: To implement and use of the Procurement & Supply Chain module in the Project.
Outcome: A new, efficient practice for the Project Owner to manage Procurement and Supply Chain of the prefab building components.
Term: The Project term.
- Configuring the EPX Model Server environment for the Project, installing the EPX Client Software.
- Training the Parties, setting up the support system.
- Implementing the Links to other, related systems.
- Creating the BIM model of the Project.
