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Ken Pinto: Negotiate Processes, Not Just Prices As Volatility Reigns
In a topsy-turvy materials market, cost control is about more than chasing discounts. Ken Pinto explains why smarter process negotiations—not temporary price breaks—create lasting advantages for builders navigating uncertainty.
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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.
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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.
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Windows For '21 Completions Start Closing: Here's What's Next
A casualty of 2021 supply chain dysfunction -- loyalty -- may be a source of business strain between builders and distributors when options open back up in 2023 and beyond.
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Tap The Power Of Unit-Pricing, The Better Path To Cost Control
Here's how 'you can only manage what you can measure" applies in the highly complex, disruption-riddled world of 400 SKUs, 30 different processes, and 18,000 or so separate pieces in a 2,200 square-foot new home.
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'Living With' The Supply Chain Crisis May Be A Last Best Option
For construction supply woes, sellers and buyers choose to go-it-alone and keep close-to-the-vest at their own peril. Transparency and trust work as tools to learn to 'live with' supply disruption.
