7 benefits of construction procurement software

When it comes to subcontractor procurement for building projects, it’s extremely time-consuming to effectively plan and manage the entire process without complete visibility.

How many times have you questioned how up-to-date or accurate the information you're seeing is? Is it telling you the full story? Is it bringing to light all risks and opportunities?

This is where construction procurement software helps, and not just generic construction management software that might dance on the edges of procurement, we’re talking about dedicated procurement software purpose-built for the construction industry, by construction professionals.

How construction procurement software works

When you think about the current way you procure trades, things like excel spreadsheets, word documents, emails and manually creating scopes of work & subcontracts might come to mind.

There’s plenty of manual work, outdated information, and time-consuming tasks requiring continuous human input—if they even get done at all.

Dedicated construction procurement software (like ProcurePro) eliminates reliance on time-consuming, admin-heavy tasks that often slow down procurement cycles, ensuring greater efficiency.

Why use construction procurement software?

Good construction procurement software should allow you to handle your entire subcontractor procurement process in one centralised platform.

1. Imagine all your procurement details neatly unified in one location—procurement schedules, scopes of work, tenders, comparisons, recommendations, approvals, and contracts—completely up-to-date.
2. This connects to your other Construction-Tech systems, integrated with Procore, Aconex, DocuSign, Microsoft Office, Jobpac, Cheops and more, so there’s no need to manually transfer information.
3. Automatically generated subcontractor comparisons let you accurately compare like for like, quickly submit a recommendation, and help employees secure the approvals they need much faster, enabling you to achieve ROI with procurement software.
4. Online library full of business-specific templates that will help you quickly and easily generate accurate scopes of work and subcontracts.
5. eSignatures, so you’re not waiting for subcontractors to print, sign and scan a subcontract.
6. Automated reports that give you instant up-to-date visibility over every project, every trade and every employee, so that you can easily identify opportunities and risks.
7. Software that can have an immediate impact on your business. It streamlines construction procurement for Contract Administrators, Project Managers, Commercial Managers, and Construction Executives on a daily basis, delivering immense procurement visibility they truly previously only imagined.

How construction procurement software helps

Stay well on schedule with real-time trade letting schedules and bulk tendering that automatically update upon completion of tasks, keeping your team and project on track.

Improve quality assurance in construction by using consistent templates centralised in your company library, sharing “lessons learnt” across your entire team that lets you create bulletproof scopes of work and empowers your team to work at pace.

Compare accurately by enabling apples-for-apples subcontractor comparisons to boost your confidence in pricing and streamline overall approval processes for subcontractors.

Contract quickly by automating construction contract management, sign fast and secure with eSignatures so trades are locked in and remove risk of cost escalation.

See how the best construction procurement software is entirely replacing emails, Excel, and Word with a single shared workspace for every construction project.

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