David Corson
March 13, 2023
This article presents a succinct discussion of what your business will need to implement in your supply chain to ensure professional construction every time. Essentially, it will be the speed, reliability, and consistency of your supply chain that will keep you in the construction business/industry or not.
Why speed is of the essence
The building process must be quick in order to make the most of all your resources and meet the demand, but most of all, to use the weather. When the weather and outdoor conditions are good, you need to be on-site and building, and the only way that this is possible is to have the materials and supplies that you need on-site as soon as you need them there. Furthermore, once on-site, you will need to move materials around, and this needs to be just as efficient.
For many building contractors, it is common to have the fast-moving forklift hire Warrington or elsewhere can provide on-site to be able to move and shift bricks, materials, and more as fast and effectively as possible.
Reliability
There is nothing worse than not receiving exactly what you’ve ordered for the day or time that you need it on site. Yes, you need to plan all construction in advance, but you also don’t want expensive materials sitting outside for all and sundry to remove or steal before you have a chance to use it. Your logistics or transport provider needs to be reliable, and not just sometimes, all the time, every time.
Reliability for the transport and logistics sectors is very much about the timings of delivery and collections, but also the need to have materials arrive in a pristine state. The bricks and blocks may be a hardier example, but wooden frames, doors, and fittings all need to be in the state that the client selected them, or it is going to cost you time and money as you wait for a replacement.
Ensuring both speed and reliability is only possible if you have a professional logistics solution. This will mean different things to different businesses, but at the heart of the matter is being able to plan well in advance and having an open relationship with a transport/logistics provider. It will also be necessary to have the requisite equipment and skills to move and plan the arrival and distribution of materials across a big building or construction site to be able to then complete the construction in time and on budget.
Logistics and construction go hand in hand, and it is the very tips and insights, such as those presented herein, that will prevent your construction project from falling into a common state of delay and overspending. A few simple changes in the way you view and plan your logistics could thus go a long way to improving your overall professionalism. The mistake is to think that construction is entirely about the building process; the truth is that the modern construction industry is more about having the right people on-site with the right materials on the right day and when the building is ready for them.
