Procurement Management Approach
No plans have been made to update this document unless the scope of the installation of Roof Membrane changes or any significant changes in APEX procuring processes are made. The Project Manager will notify any change to the project team members verbally and by email.
Procurement Process
APEX Sustainable Engineering Solutions uses a proven system to procure equipment, materials and services to meet the contractual requirements. Our employees work in cross functional teams to perfume multiple tasks that minimize the supplier response time and queue. The result produced through this is accurate, fast and cost-effective procurement process.
Documents, Policies and Procedures
• The APEX procurement process
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• Evaluating and monitoring suppliers to ensure performance of schedule and cost.
• Evaluating Lease versus purchase requirements and negotiating all the options available.
Preparing Procurement Documents for Each Stage
• Identifications of the equipment, materials and services.
• Soliciting bid to suppliers and ensuring the high level of competitiveness.
• Receiving quotations, reviewing for quantity and other discounts and while the purchase order is negotiated.
• Dealing with Supplier administrator to define requirements, Statements of Work and other required specifications.
• Awarding contracts. (Supplier Agreements, including APEX agreements, i.e. Fixed Price Contracts)
• When generating requisition to be approved. Orders are not placed without appropriate authorization. Requisition of goods and services must be approved by the Project Manager or an Authorized Representative.
• When there is any changes to the purchase orders. The purchase orders are controlled by supply chain management and documented in the respective procurement folder.
• When receiving material/service from the supplier.
• When inspection is performed as required.
• When receiving Invoice from the supplier.
Note that all purchase orders which are 25K CAD and over must contain procurement documentation checklist (Procurement Doc checklist – PDC-329) to ensure that all the areas and
Any attempts to change aspects pertaining to this project will be completed using an official memorandum for record. This document must meet the approval of the Project manager.
All goods purchased pass through a receiving department under the direction of the chief purchasing agent. The duties of the receiving department are to unpack, count, and inspect the goods. The quantity received is compared with the quantity shown on the receiving department’s copy of the purchase order. If there is no discrepancy, the purchase order is stamped “OK—Receiving Dept.” and forwarded to the accounts payable section of the accounting
Asking for feedback, good or bad and then act on that feedback to ensure things are enhanced for the customer.
The super computer, Telson records all the sales. The order is automatically generated that evening. At midnight, the warehouse fills that order and it sits back on
(i.e. products that they get to order only once because of long supplier lead times). First they determine a forecast for an item and then they have a process for converting that forecast into an order quantity.
The ordering process begins with the decision of the customer to submit their order simply by either calling, faxing or mailing their order information. When a customer calls in their order, the customer service representatives takes down pertinent customer information, which includes the customer's name, billing and shipping address, product number and description, quantity and shipping instructions. While taking down the order, the customer service representative access the company's order entry system where inventory checks are conducted as well as credit checks are processed. In addition, delivery options are advised to the customer. Here the customer decides
In an effort to support the ALPS sourcing strategy this procedure has been put into place to increase involvement of Procurement to collaborate with project engineers to identify suitable vendors to be utilized in the CAPEX sourcing process. Vendor selection is the responsibility of the Procurement department.
The customer has access to the price rates and various schemes and offers, this is the display stage, once the products are chosen the billing takes place at the cashier, leading to the packaging stage where the customer is handed over the product which was formerly stocked at the inventory.
or service being acquired is available. State Procurement Rules R-24-103-205, allows a Sole Source declaration to be made by the Purchasing Agent on a purchase when one or more of the following conditions are
For a purchasing operation to be effective it must adhere to some key points. A purchasing operation must identify the requirements of the user, effectively and efficiently evaluate the needs of the user, and identify suppliers that will meet the needs of the use. They must also develop agreements with those suppliers, develop ordering mechanism with the suppliers and ensure payment occurs promptly and determine that the need of the user was met.
According to (Hill and Hill, 2012), synchronising all supply chain activities through using the same data, and completing production at the scheduled time, coordinated between the manufacturer and suppliers,
The PMBOK Guide (Project Management Institute, 2008) defines procurement documents as those documents which are used to gather proposals from potential bidders during the solicitation process. These can be collected under request for information (RFI), invitation for bid (IB), request for proposal (RFP), request for quotation (RFQ), invitation for negotiation, tender notice or invitation for seller’s initial response. (p. 326) In my business, we generally use RFPs that follow very strict government guidance. For example, we have different conference RFP
There are a large number of E-procurement tools that could be distinguished in the marketplace (de Boer et al., 2001). Some of them are already well developed and highly accepted in the marketplace; nonetheless, there are numerous E-procurement tools that are immature and require further development (Wang, 2006). For the purpose for this paper, we aim to focus on the E-procurement tools that are widely accepted in the government and private sectors. The four most common E-procurement tools being used consist of E-Sourcing, E-Tendering, E-Reverse Auction and E-Collaboration (Boer et. al., 2001). The description of the four E-procurement tools would be provided, following by comprehensive explanations and visual diagrams to demonstrate how
The most valuable output of the Plan Procurement Process is the Procurement Management Plan. As is the case with almost every aspect of the project management process, it is essential and imperative that the project management team implement an effective and concise plan when it comes to the various components of procurement throughout the project’s life cycle. Specifically speaking, the procurement management plan refers to the plan that has been put into place that is meant to dictate and describe the entirety of the procurement process and how it is means to relate to and with the developing procurement documentation, and how contract closure will relate to all. The procurement management plan should be implemented and developed as early in the project life cycle as possible to assure that the procurement process is consistent throughout, however, in some cases the plan may be altered once the project begins, particularly if budgetary reasons dictate.
The term e-procurement gained popularity around the year 2000. Emergence of the two competitors Ariba and Commerce One, companies that specialized in the support of electronic procurement for MRO products, changed the way indirect MRO spend used to be looked upon. Introduction of internet-based procurement applications prompted a change from a centrally organized procurement (central buying) department to ‘desktop procurement’ environment, where the employee in need of a product would initiate the purchase transaction electronically. With these two trends, ‘decentralized purchasing’ and ‘multi-vendor catalogues’, the conduit toward electronic support of the MRO buying process was paved. Thus, over the period, spend analysts have started observing carefully, to increase spend under management and implement better control over tail spend in order to reduce the amount of fulfilling formalities and time consumed in procuring these products.