Moving Past 3 bids and buy

If your PA responsibilities include tracking the 3rd party rental items being used by your company you should look at finding solutions such as a database or Excel spreadsheet that contains the following information. The process of tracking rental items at the projects we are responsible for involves our custom Access database and a weekly report detailing what is on rent, the committed costs, and all items that have either exceeded the PO value or expected return date. You can create an Excel spreadsheet in 5 minutes if you prefer that solution. At the top of the sheet list these columns... Off...

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I had a requisition early this week for some milling tool repair parts used in power plant boilers. The site needing them was neck deep in an outage and speed of delivery was more important than pricing paid. With that in mind I sourced the parts to a very wide group and let them know I needed everything on site the following day. F&M Mafco near Cincinnati (a great supplier who has been A-level for many years) responded first and promised everything would arrive on time and was given the PO. A few hours later a different supplier (also A-level) who specializes in these parts got back to me with...

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I received a call from a VIP client that a forklift that had been on rent for several weeks from Snook Equipment in St. Louis would not start. The call came in on a Saturday afternoon and I was told the forklift was required for a vital purpose on Monday morning. I called my sales rep after I hung up and, long story short, he had a service tech fixing the problem early the next day. 6:30am Sunday to be exact. Many thanks to Snook and I appreciate the help.

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JobsiteBuying.com has done a tremendous job recently helping source tooling, consumables, material, and rental equipment for the upcoming Baldwin Energy fall outage. We have backup for all PO decisions, quotes are archived, and some new guest suppliers were added. It's all working great!

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The current state of the US Economy is horrible, nobody has any idea how $15,000,000,000 in debt is going to be repaid, the DOW just dropped 600+ points, many construction trades have local unemployment of 40%, more work that you've won is being cancelled, and finally half the country is paying income taxes and voting to keep EVERY perk, benefit, and entitlement possible. Now what do you do? FIGHT! Look at your costs and cut the fat, bid aggressively, and network with anyone who can lead you to winning work. Other than closing up there isn't any other option. The trajectory will eventually...

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