Procurement risk rarely shows up early enough to act on. Most GCs find out about a lead-time problem when a submittal comes back rejected or a delivery date slips — by then, the schedule has already absorbed the hit. This session reframes the procurement log from a record of what happened into a signal for what's about to go wrong. We'll unpack what "proactive" actually means in practice: knowing critical lead items before design is finished, prioritizing submittals by schedule impact rather than spec order, and catching a delivery shift the same day it happens — not weeks later at the next OAC meeting. With switchgear lead times now stretching past a year and tariff-driven cost escalation, procurement has stopped being a construction activity and become a development-phase decision. We'll discuss what it takes to move that decision upstream — and why the construction "data leaders" already doing this see meaningfully higher profit growth as a result.
