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06 · Supply chain management

Procurement handled as an engineering problem

A vendor deviation buried in a technical annexe becomes a site problem eighteen months later. Someone has to read those documents properly.

01Procurement support
02Vendor management
03Logistics strategy

On a plant project, most of the value is bought rather than built in-house. The quality of that buying depends on whether the specifications were written tightly, whether the bids were compared on the same basis, and whether anyone checked what the vendor actually promised against what was asked for.

We do that review with the engineers who wrote the specification, so a clarification round resolves a technical question rather than passing it down the line. The same team then manages the interfaces between packages, which is where schedule usually slips.

// What this covers

Inside the scope

01

Procurement support

Scope-of-work definition, technical specifications and tender packages for every equipment package on the project.

02

Vendor management

Technical bid evaluation, vendor document review, clarification rounds and factory acceptance testing.

03

Logistics strategy

Delivery sequencing tied to the construction schedule, with interface and risk management across packages.

// Evidence

Where we have done it

Vendor assessment, technical document review and procurement support delivered inside greenfield and brownfield programmes on four continents, with schedule control in Primavera P6 or MS Project and interface management across process, civil, electrical and automation disciplines.

Is this the piece you are missing?

Send us the plant, the constraint and the timeline. You will get an engineer's answer, not a brochure.