A Recipe for Retaining Your Purchasing Talent
Talented people are either leaving or avoiding the home building industry. Here’s how home builders can reverse the tide and keep their best purchasing pros
Are Your Trade Relationships Strategic or Transactional?
Reward those trade partners that work with you to solve problems and treat the rest simply as transactional suppliers
First-Time Buyers Persevere in Difficult Housing Market
Why more first-time buyers purchased homes during the pandemic
5 Supply-Chain Takeaways From the Pandemic
Stop to consider how COVID-19 has forever changed your business
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Business Management
Commodity Purchasing? There’s No Such Thing
Do you know all of the elements of the true total cost and total benefit for all of the products you put in your homes?
Purchasing
Triggers and Solutions for Home Building Inflation
Why cost containment is key for builders, suppliers, and trades as rising costs continue to raise home prices and threaten new-home affordability
Building Materials
Who Can Shorten the Supply Chain for Home Building?
Current supply-chain challenges serve to reveal new possibilities for supplying materials for new-home construction
Leadership
Even Flow: The Heartbeat of a Production Builder
Learn to speak the language of even flow and the slot system for more efficient production, greater profitability, and improved customer satisfaction
Purchasing
5 Tips for Dealing With 'Take It or Leave It' Ultimatums When Negotiating
Follow these steps to successfully navigate a “take-it-or-leave-it” negotiation with suppliers and trades
Remodeling
Expensive Lumber Is Stalling Home Repairs
The stretched out availability of building materials such as lumber, windows, and vinyl siding have put some projects at a standstill and cost increases have pushed repairs, particularly for storm damage, beyond the homeowners’ ability to pay.
Human Resources
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
Building Materials
Rethinking the Global Supply Chain
Avoiding supply-chain disruptions in the future (and especially in a crisis) requires a recommitment to American-made products
Purchasing
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
Purchasing
What’s Your Ratio? Purchasing Ratio, That Is
A step-by-step process to determine a meaningful and useful purchasing ratio
