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Supply Chain Collaboration to Enhance Design, Speed Production and Drive Cost Improvement

Collaboration, or what some folks might call hands-on teamwork, is a relatively untapped opportunity for most production homebuilders. Collaboration is common to all industries: communication, coordination, brainstorming and decision-making up and down the Value Chain to ensure that no opportunity to improve product/plans is missed. And to do it faster and more reliably!


Symbius’ Supply Chain Collaboration Solutions focus on the four most powerful areas for improved communications, teamwork, and coordination can make a huge operational difference:

  • Content Management: share, search, store and manage important design, architecture, engineering, trade, construction and purchasing information and documents
  • Innovation: when all parties can be heard and a larger group of participants can improve plans, processes, budgets and policies, homebuilders can expect to achieve remarkable improvements
  • 180 Degree Trade Feedback: builders that systematically ask their trades how they are doing, and use that feedback to improve operations, are able to achieve higher levels of production quality and, oftentimes, lower total costs
  • Design Center Management/Integration with Purchasing: options and design center services are an untapped, underdeveloped profit center for most builders. Few builders have taken a standard approach to how to manage options, how to price, and how to integrate with purchasing to speed up options delivery/selection and reduce total costs

What form of collaboration is best for your organization? Use this helpful chart to guide your thinking and planning in 2007:



Symbius brings extensive expertise in the strategies, processes and technology/tools to make these three Collaboration solutions a reality.

                       

Proprietary Methods

Our well-equipped SCC toolbox includes:

  • Automated process mapping tools
  • Roles and Responsibilities templates
  • Best practices database
  • Opportunity evaluation templates
  • Interview guides
  • Standard work instruction templates
  • Implementation plan templates
  • Communications plan templates
  • Depending on your needs, individual tools can be chosen to achieve your organizations' specific goals

Demonstrated Results

Significant value is gained when leveraging Symbius’ Supply Chain Collaboration. Symbius BCC allows your team to take advantage of all the tremendous capabilities of the Buzzsaw application, to increase your organization’s productivity and streamline communication with external partners.

Symbius’ SCC methodology has been used by a top 50 homebuilder to deploy bid management tools in the BuzzSaw application, enhancing the construction document sharing capability already in place. Symbius helped to define system requirements, document the new bid process, create tools and templates, and configure the application based on these requirements. Improvements in efficiency and productivity of 10-15% have been reported.

About Symbius

Symbius is the leading supply chain consultant to the production homebuilding industry. Helping clients quickly increase profits and gain competitive advantage is our purpose. Symbius brings significant industry operations experience, supply chain expertise, and proven methodologies to provide clients with a high return on their consulting investment. We help the most respected homebuilders improve their supply chains by designing and implementing answers for their specific business needs. Only Symbius provides a 3x ROI guarantee for all our work.

Call on us to help: 303.800.4417 growth@symbius.com