Chapter 3.1

The procurement process visualised

As Will Wilson, Commercial Director at Legacie puts it, ”Procurement is an easy concept to put down on paper, but difficult to administer, organise, and manage.”

Below are a few different ways to visualise the procurement process, showing the typical experience from a contractor’s perspective.

‘The Old Way’ of procuring

Procurement is more than tendering or managing a subbie database.

The best way to help understand the end-to-end procurement process is to visualise it.

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Every procurement process on a page

The 7 step process seen above is actually much more complex.

There’s 20+ sub-processes (often Excel/Word templates) needed to procure a single trade. We put these these real world assets together on a page to show how people are ACTUALLY working day-to-day. How often does your desktop look like this?

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Seeing each template

And of course, here are some of those individual templates used by QSs and CAs every day.

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And just for fun...

We put this process into a short story (not a fairy tale), which really helps illustrate the fragmentation...

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3.2 – A detailed process map

We’ve mapped and visualised each stage of procurement in this handy downloadable.

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