Insights
Short, practical writing on the decisions that determine cost, schedule, and supplier performance.
5 articles
Most organizations do not have a spending problem. They have a visibility problem. Here is how a focused four-week review surfaces real money without disrupting operations.
Single-source categories rarely look risky on a balance sheet. They look efficient — right up until the day they don't. A simple index makes the exposure visible.
Switchgear, elevators, custom millwork, transformers. The items that take longest to arrive are rarely the items being tracked most closely — and the schedule pays for it.
Freight and inventory decisions are usually made in separate meetings by different people with different incentives. The result is a cost that neither group can see in full.
If requisition-to-order takes eleven days and the work takes four hours, you do not have a productivity problem. You have a queue design problem.
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