Next-Gen Hiring Practices for Home Builders
Instead of hiring purchasing professionals with experience (and baggage), go for the green to mold your ideal team
Rethinking the Global Supply Chain
Avoiding supply-chain disruptions in the future (and especially in a crisis) requires a recommitment to American-made products
Are You Getting a Good Deal on Your Purchasing?
A little due diligence and a total-cost mindset go a long way to determining if you’re getting a good deal on your purchasing
What’s Your Ratio? Purchasing Ratio, That Is
A step-by-step process to determine a meaningful and useful purchasing ratio
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Business Management
Supplier Survival: Adopt a Highly Differentiating Approach
Suppliers can inspire builders to think beyond ‘first cost’ to total cost (and even total value). Here's how
Manufacturers + Suppliers
Now Is a Good Time to Review and Refresh Your Materials Supply Chain
Use this guide to identifying and prequalifying suppliers to reinvigorate and stabilize your supply chain
Purchasing
Tap Your Purchasing Team to Build a Stronger Business
Regardless of market conditions, investing in and supporting knowledgable purchasing professionals pays profound dividends
Purchasing
The Center of Home Building: Purchasing
Is Purchasing at the core of your operations? If not, you’re leaving money on the table, and lots of it
Purchasing
The Strategic Power of Purchasing for Home Builders
Climbing prices are shutting out some potential buyers, but savvy purchasing can help offset pressures exerted by market conditions
Lean Building
PO vs. VPO—Another ‘Voice of the Process’
Your processes can teach you so much and save you a lot of cash. But you need metrics
Purchasing
Is It Time to Change How You Buy Drywall?
Most builders buy drywall turnkey, with both the material and the labor provided by the same contractor. Purchasing expert Charles Schneider offers a better solution
Purchasing
10 Elements of the Total Cost Model to Purchasing
Home builders that adopt the total cost model to purchasing and operations are guaranteed to save in the long run. Here’s a road map for getting started
Purchasing
The New Rules of Purchasing for Builders
Builders that purchase labor and material on bid price alone are guaranteed only that they will never operate by lowest total cost
