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General contractors · Use case 06

Long-lead orders tied to the design

The order was placed months ago. The design has moved since, and nobody has checked the two against each other.

Long-lead equipment sets the energise date, and lead times run to months. Criad links each order to the elements it covers, the clause it was specified under and the revision it was placed against, so a design change that touches an order shows up when the change is proposed, not when the equipment arrives. When a substitute product is offered to beat a lead time, it is checked against the client standard before it is ordered.

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How it works

Ask. Inspect. Verify. Publish.

1

Ask

A plain-language question.

"Which long-lead orders does this revision touch?"
2

Inspect

The full blast radius, on the model.

The ordered elements on the model, by product and by hall, with the revision each order was placed against.
3

Verify

Checked against the governing drawings and specs.

Each order is checked against the current drawings and spec. Differences in size, count or product are listed with their source.
4

Publish

A dashboard, report or register, citations attached.

A procurement assurance report: orders in agreement, orders at risk, and what each one is waiting on.
Worked example

One job, start to finish.

Values come from a structured reference campus, not from a client project.

Reference campus
  1. 01

    Reference campus, electrical yard: 9 transformers on one order, placed against rev 1 of the yard layout.

  2. 02

    Rev 2 changes the cable runs to two of them and moves two of the 4 switchboards, whose order is not yet released.

  3. 03

    The report shows each order, the clause it was specified under and the elements it covers, on the model.

  4. 04

    Caught before fabrication, it is still cheap.

Electrical yard Electrical yard · long-lead orders
Highlighted: the elements the answer refers to

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