Arcadis
Driving faster and better data-driven supply chain decisions to deliver sustainable and risk-reduced projects.
SourceDogg for Construction
Building better construction supply chains
Construction projects are often a problematic blend of the complex and the unpredictable. With so many variables in play at any one time, your supply chain team needs to gain control and stay in control as much as possible.
Our platform reduces everyday stress by unifying your data across teams, divisions and projects whilst simultaneously uniting your suppliers with your company.
It’ll also make your entire buying processes and workflows swifter, smoother and smarter. When you’re up and running, our cloud technology will help you engage and develop your suppliers to build positive and effective relationships.
You're in good company...
On Time
By spending less time on the busywork, such as searching through inboxes and mail trails for supplier info you’ll be empowered to do what you do best.
With all of your data in the cloud for all to see, fast onboarding and easily repeatable templated processes and reminders you’ll be in control and on time.
In Budget
Time is money. With SourceDogg you’ll not only gain project efficiencies but you’ll also be able to work proactively to stick to budgets.
You’ll be able to effectively compare suppliers where there is repeated mission and cost-creep and evaluate their performance more easily.
Quality Assured
Judging, selecting and maintaining best value across your organisation is now a reality.
With the right data at your fingertips, comprehensive sourcing and selection tools and ongoing performance management features, our platform makes getting it right much simpler than ever before.
Powering Profitablility
With margins squeezed across the sector, even marginal gains can make a massive difference.
By improving the efficiency of your processes and getting more from your people, alongside setting clear metrics and measurement of your subcontractors, our platform helps drive profitability.
Reduced Risk
Eliminate audit anxiety. By shifting your supplier management into our cloud platform, you can breeze through any type of investigation or interrogation with clear roles and responsibilities, data management trails, and ultimate control.
Supporting
Safety + Sustainability
SourceDogg helps you create a supplier master database to house the relevant data points, bakes in safety and sustainability questions and allows weighting of these factors into your sourcing and selection process.
Your teams will deliver smarter, sustainable decision making.
Get your supply chain off the ground...
and into the
cloud
It’s time to think outside the inbox and re-imagine the way you work with your suppliers and subcontractors.
Increasing Process Performance
Keeping Projects on Time
By spending less time on the busywork, such as searching through inboxes and mail trails for supplier info you’ll be empowered to do what you do best. No more disorganised shared drives or inconsistencies between teams, projects and divisions – just one single source of truth across the organisation.
When you’ve got control of all of your complex data in the cloud, you’ll love our fast onboarding features and easily repeatable templated processes when sourcing new suppliers or asking for new quotes. We’ve even got automated reminders for internal users and external suppliers so you can run the admin-heavy part of your role on autopilot.
- No more data searching stress, wasted time and bottlenecks
- Easily shareable data, outside of individual inboxes or Excel spreadsheets
- Pre-qualify at estimating stages
- Onboard faster at contract award to get started more efficiently
- Automated reminders to prompt immediate action
- A simple supplier portal leads the supplier to fill out their information – not your teams!
Enhanced Visibility + Control
Brilliantly on Budget
By having all of your data in one place across the business, comparisons and cross-checks have never been so easy. You can retrieve documentation, quotes and SLA’s from your suppliers in just a few clicks and review your progress against them.
Our Supplier Relationship Management features also help identify and develop your supply base and subcontractors that are prone to budgetary anomalies and that suffer from mission creep. You’ll have transparent and clear reference data points and an agreed and aligned vision to open constructive conversation rather than unhelpful anecdotes and punitive punishments that lead to disagreement.
Meet Quality Targets
Up to Standard
According to the Get It Right Initiative (GIRI), approximately 21% of a construction project cost is spent correcting avoidable errors. That equates to between £10-25 billion annually across the sector.
By sourcing and selecting suppliers using definitive data and objective comparisons, you’ll drive up quality standards and positively impact profitability whilst delivering your projects on time.
Our SRM features also help you proactively engage and develop your suppliers and subcontractor base, identify potential room for improvement and collaborate strategically for the long term.
- Control project buying centrally and maintain and manage your preferred supplier list for all projects to ensure quality
- Quickly set up RFQ’s, RFP’s & tenders with standardised templates to ensure a structured buying process is always used
- Gain a holistic view of cross-project subcontractor performance which allows for better decision making
- Agree and set standardised Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) with regular feedback to subcontractors
Maximise Profitability
Good for Business
In the competitive world of construction, you’re often stripping back your price as much as possible then finding efficiencies within the project wherever you can.
SourceDogg is owned and run by construction and infrastructure career professionals. Having set up, run and eventually sold a contractor business we know and understand the key challenges in this competitive market only too well.
- Our platform helps you drive time savings through process automation and standardisation
- We’ll help you identify the best value delivery partners that get the job done and don’t cost jeopardise your margins.
- Source + Select tools allow for quick and efficient tendering and easy submission comparison/review so you get the most effective use of your teams
- Use Supplier Relationship Management to help you compare price vs. project performance and position you for success
Eliminate Audit Anxiety
Risk Reduced
Failing an audit, whether that be a client audit, quality standard or health & safety can have huge consequences for your business. Projects can grind to a halt, reputations damaged and business can be lost.
By shifting your supplier management into our cloud platform, you can breeze through any type of investigation or interrogation with clear roles and responsibilities, data management trails, and ultimate control.
Audit reports can be prepared more quickly, leaving your team free to do their job – not get caught up in red tape.
- All supplier master data is held in one place, removing the risk of missing data, certifications and accreditations.
- Quickly & easily see when records were last updated and by who with a full audit trail.
- Set reminders for suppliers to make updates to their records
- Schedule automatic reminders and updates for lapsing certificates/accreditations both internally and externally
- Use standardised KPI reports, recorded from previous work, to minimise the risk of errors in supplier and subcontractor performance
Built for the Future
Safe + Sustainable
The pressure to make better supply chain decisions based on both safety and environmental impact and sustainability in our industry has never been greater.
By creating a supplier master database to house the relevant data points and baking safety and sustainability questions and weighting into your sourcing and selection process you’ll drive smarter decision making.
Add to this transparent key performance indicators for your supplier base, simple measurement and performance reviews and ongoing development tools and you’ve got a holistic platform to meet your carbon-reduction goals through collaboration.
- Select suppliers with a strong HS&E background/track record
- Choose to weight those tender question responses as more important than other sections.
- Adopt your client’s objectives into your tender questions quickly and simply with our template tools, so you can use the most relevant selection criteria when awarding contracts.
- Use SourceDogg to record sustainability Key Performance Indicators, quickly and easily share reports with your clients.
How Construction Customers Use SourceDogg
A Leading International Technical Professional Services Company
Driving best value and compliance within complex technical professional services projects.