Procurement Mini Learning Series: Expediting Essentails

In the intricate dance of procurement, where each step plays an important role in ensuring timely delivery and optimal value, one crucial movement often fades into the background or is entirely overlooked: expediting. While the initial stages of sourcing, negotiation, and contracting rightly command attention, the proactive follow-up to ensure suppliers adhere to agreed-upon timelines frequently becomes an afterthought, a task delegated, or simply forgotten in the frenzy of daily operations.

This book delves into the core principles of effective expediting. It explores why it's not just about chasing deadlines, but a strategic endeavor encompassing proactive communication, meticulous tracking, and skillful problem-solving. The author unpacks the circumstances that necessitate robust expediting efforts, from critical project timelines and single-source suppliers to volatile market conditions and complex manufacturing processes. He also equips you with practical tools and techniques to implement a successful expediting strategy, regardless of your team's size or industry.

Significantly improve procurement delivery (and avoid the significant financial implications of delays) by learning and applying expediting essentials as you proactively follow-up to ensure suppliers adhere to agreed-upon, and sometimes rapidly-evolving timelines, and assure materials/finished goods/services availability. Guide non-procurement organisation team members to be effective in this important expediting task when it is delegated outside procurement.