
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.
Products
Tire Tracks: How Builders Can Save On Last-Mile Costs, ... And Ease Supply Chain Stress
Think the last-mile shortage of truckers is an external factor builders have no sway to impact or solve? Think again. Here, TBD Dream Teamer Ken Pinto proposes a way to gain last-mile capacity by the truckload.
Leadership
Past As Prologue: Where Subs' Field Feedback Saves Builders Money
An all-too-common path to cost control happens when builders tell suppliers, 'just get it done.' Here, from Ken Pinto's kaizen vault on throughput gains, is an alternative approach.