When is late - Late?
You have ordered a replacement for a piece of equipment that you intend to replace during a scheduled outage; now the supplier is telling you it will not ship until 2 weeks after the original ship date.
Sometimes it is necessary to find resolutions to missed schedule milestones or delays in established inspection or witness points during manufacture or repair of your equipment. An experienced expeditor can help in ascertaining if additional manpower would recoup lost schedules, whether the problem might need to be resolved at a sub-supplier's facility or if alternate methods of shipment would be beneficial.
The objective of the expeditor is to (ideally) sit down with the decision makers at the supplier and seek ways to successfully complete the project on time. Other times an expeditor can make recommendations on processes that can be performed once the equipment arrives on-site, i.e., final paint, ship a pump (that is ready) without the motor and field test the completed assembly.
Expeditors can be an owner's last line of defense. Still, the best defense is a good offense and that is where ThirdPartyInspections.com works with our clients in establishing WITNESS and INSPECTION points early on in the purchase or repair of major capital equipment.
Therefore, using ThirdPartyInspections.com to help guide you in lessening the chances for the necessity of an expeditor can be time and cost effective.
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