Products
Will Red Sea Disruptions Show Up In Builders' Build-Cycles Again?
Securing the right materials in the right place at the right time is crucial to accessing the right labor in the right place at the right time. Supply disruptions affect builders’ ability to use labor efficiently, leading to more challenges in getting homes built on time.
Leadership
Here's How Your Work To Cut Costs Often Drives Them Higher
Listening lowers costs. Sounds trite perhaps, but I don’t care. It’s one of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned in my career. Subcontractors are a homebuilder's front-line operations team.
Products
As Inflation Surges, Time Is Money: Here's How Builders Can Cut Both
Our MasterClass series with Ken Pinto focuses on a cause-and-effect approach to reducing construction costs by giving suppliers SKU and lead-time information to optimize their own channels.
Products
Here's Why Kitting - A Tool Too Many Builders Forgot - Reboots
Ken Pinto's field-guide to an underused supply chain strategy to secure the build cycle time ... at a time construction schedules have been so massively disrupted.
Products
As Builders Seek Work-Arounds, Is It Smart To Source, Buy Direct?
Here's where cost-saving purchasing tactics can pivot into a win-win expense reduction that can also improve your vendor subcontractors and suppliers' business performance, and deepen their loyalties.
