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AboutPROCUREMENT EXPEDITING FOR CONSTRUCTION
Minimize Delays.
Boost Efficiency.
Accelerate Progress.
- Accelerate The Delivery Of Long-Lead Items
Enable careful oversight of long-lead procurement items with 4castplus Expediting. Expediters track numerous critical milestones, monitor deliverables, shipping, documents, and more. As well as logging communications with vendors. All to manage the overall timelines to ensure timely delivery, QA and inspections. 4castplus provides productivity tools and powerful reporting & dashboards to simplify the complex work of expediters.
Milestone-Based Expediting
Configurable Milestone Tracking
4castplus enables expediters to configure their own library of milestone targets which they can pick from for any item. The system will automatically lay-out the milestones, dependencies, and other properties for the expediter to fill-in as events are completed.
Tracking Expediting Milestones
Expediters can enter dates and other related data for the completion of expediting milestone events as they’re completed. 4castplus will auto-fill certain fields such as the arrival-at-site date when there is a logical connection to project events.
Logging Vendor Communications
4castplus expediting software provides a built-in tool to capture emails, phone calls and other correspondence with all your vendors. This is key for documenting a historical record for transparency during the expediting process.
Expediting Reports
Comprehensive Expediting Reports
4castplus includes standard expediting reports out-of-the-box that summarize all expediting details for all selected purchase orders and related items. There are also user-customizable reports, ad-hoc reports, and an interactive critical-path timeline module to monitor upcoming events to watch for.
Standard & User-Customizable Reports
4castplus provides a wealth of options for built-in reporting, ad-hoc reporting and for users to design their own library of expediting & receiving reports.
Timeline Reports
The 4castplus expediting “Timeline” module is a key planning tool for expeditors to monitor the critical-path targets. It answers the questions: “What’s coming up in the next few days, weeks and months?”
Expediting Matters Because Timing Is Everything
In procurement management, the expeditor is the person who ensures suppliers deliver critical materials or equipment to the jobsite on time and in good order. They keep close tabs on the statuses of every key event leading up to the successful delivery of long-lead items. He or she spends hours communicating with vendors, and they feed delivery forecast details to the project manager and schedulers to ensure accurate timing of crews and installers. To accomplish all this, they need an expediting software solution that makes it easy and organized so that they can help avoid delays and other issues like, quality, damages, overages, etc.
- Frequently Asked Questions
Without proper oversight, delays in procurement can cause project setbacks, jeopardizing timelines, budgets, and quality. 4castplus helps expediters manage key milestones, track deliverables, and communicate effectively with vendors to ensure timely delivery and prevent costly delays.
Yes, 4castplus provides out-of-the-box reports that summarize the progress and status of one or more purchase orders and all their items. Additionally, 4castplus includes the ability for users to create their own custom-designed reports, dashboards and charts using the built-in report designer tools.
4castplus enables expediters to set clear milestone targets and track progress in real time. With built-in vendor communication tools and milestone-based tracking, it ensures that no step in the procurement process is missed, reducing the risk of delays and ensuring timely delivery to the job site.
Yes, 4castplus includes a vendor communication log that allows expediters to document emails, phone calls, and other correspondence. This ensures clear communication records and full transparency throughout the expediting process.
Expediters can configure their own library of milestone targets in 4castplus. This can include dates, checkboxes, text fields, dropdowns, numerical fields, etc. The system automatically tracks milestones, dependencies, and updates, making it easier to monitor procurement progress and ensure the timely delivery of long-lead items.
Yes, the best way to get your suppliers to input their own status is to give them an auto-generated worksheet (out of 4castplus) and let them input their own dates, comments, and other fields. You can then very easily import that into 4castplus.
It will soon. This feature is on the product roadmap. It will allow users to indicate predecessors and successors so that when a milestone is forecasted to be delayed, any successors will also be automatically delayed.
Yes. 4castplus has a built-in dashboard that shows charts and reports indicating critical path items, items past due, critical milestones, reports, and more.
Highly configurable
Vendor communication log
User designed expediting reports
Natively integrated with purchase order management
Highly configurable
Vendor communication log
User designed expediting reports
Natively integrated with purchase order management