Expediting

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The Expediting is a Anglizismus for quality and schedule control measures within the Technical Purchasing Department. However, the direct translation of "accelerate" does not apply to the area of ​​activity, rather it is about avoiding delays.

Expediting encompasses the external activities of a company in order to check the order backlog from other suppliers . Objects are checked under qualitative and timely aspects that require a long lead time for their production.

example

Example: A plant manufacturer has an order from a customer in the Middle East to build a petroleum refinery. High pressure pumps are used in this refinery. These pumps are specified by the system manufacturer, but manufactured by a supplier. First, the client works out the specification of the pumps, then he obtains offers from various suitable pump manufacturers and will usually place an order with the provider that appears to be the most favorable overall.

Now the supplier (also called sub-supplier) will start working on this order. If the pumps take a long time to manufacture, the system manufacturer is well advised to inquire about the progress of his order during the delivery time.

aims

Expediting does not only mean inquiring in the general sense (often by phone or email), in a narrower sense expediting means “walking out of the company” (Latin ex = out, pedes = feet) in order to get the objects from the sub-supplier In this case, to look at the pumps ordered in realita in the various stages of progress:

  • whether they will be completed on time for the target / ordered date,
  • whether they will meet the specification in terms of quality (interim acceptance / final acceptance),
  • whether they will be delivered to the customer (by) the planned date (expedited shipping).

These scheduling and qualitative aspects can be checked by one person, but there can also be a division of tasks: that one person ONLY checks the quality aspect and that one of his colleagues keeps an eye on the scheduling issues.

species

A distinction is therefore made between qualitative and quantitative expediting. The quantitative only includes deadline, completeness and packaging control; in qualitative expediting, the quality of the goods is also checked. A conformity check can also take place here to determine whether the goods supplied comply with the relevant directives and other standards.

Expediting is therefore a form of quality management . Desk expediting is z. B. carried out by the project assistant and includes the follow-up by phone or email with the supplier, whether this is still on schedule. During field expediting , the supplier is visited on site. Field expediting is carried out by internal controllers or external auditors. With the external one differentiates between the simple engineering offices or the "Trusted Third Parties" like the TÜV Hessen . If a trusted third party is involved, it can be agreed with the project financier that a partial amount will be transferred when the pump has been approved by the TÜV and the TÜV seal has been affixed to the packaging.

Importance within a project

The importance of expediting, which is not necessarily obvious at first glance, is made clear by a statement by the CEO of RWE Power AG. In the trade journal "Energie & Management" from September 1, 2009, Dr. Johannes F. Lambertz presented an investigation of 20 of the Group's power plant construction sites in Europe. The broad study found that delays of 12 months or more in the construction of power plants are no longer the exception, but the rule. These delays are attributed to quality and deadline problems at the subcontractors and the lack of monitoring of the subcontractors by the actual suppliers. The early recognition and elimination of quality and deadline problems with subcontractors is the typical task of an expediter.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Energie & Management, Edition 17/09 of September 1, 2009, p. 10 "New building barometer is on" Hold "" (Herrsching, 2009)

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