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16 capabilities
Business insurance renewal review
Before the business insurance renews, the owner gets one pack: every policy with insurer, limits, deductibles, premium and dates; renewal terms beside expiring ones, every change marked; what changed in the business; claims; and questions for the broker. The broker and the owner decide all cover.
Carrier performance review
The shipping lead gets a lane-by-lane comparison of carriers from the delivery export and the freight charges: on-time delivery, damage, tracking gaps and cost, each with the shipments behind it. A person decides whether to raise issues or change carrier.
Contractor safety prequalification
For a named job, the operations, facilities or site manager gets a safety questionnaire scaled to the risk of the work, then a record of the contractor's answers scored only on the evidence supplied, with every gap, the conditions that close it and a review date. A competent person decides.
Estimate basis pack
An estimator pricing a job from drawings, takeoffs and supplier quotes gets one worksheet: every figure with its quantity source, rate source and date beside it, each exclusion listed and every gap already written as a scope question. The estimator verifies; the bid lead decides the figure.
Inbound receiving exception trace
When what arrived does not match the advance shipment notice, the receiving supervisor or inventory controller gets the notice, the packing list and the scans side by side by item and lot, with missing references and questions to investigate. Nothing is adjusted and nobody is contacted.
Menu input cost change review
When supplier prices change, the chef and food-and-beverage manager get one worksheet: each price movement tied to the quantities in the supplied recipes, the cost per portion of every affected dish before and after, and questions for the chef. It sets no menu price.
RFQ clarification list
A buyer sending drawings and specifications out for quotation gets one list of missing details, conflicting revisions and ambiguous tolerances, and a record of each supplier's answers. The buyer approves every message; the engineer settles every technical question.
Service provider evidence matrix
When a material service provider needs approval or renewal, the vendor owner gets one matrix: the provider's evidence set against the firm's own review criteria, with self-attestations, dated reports and untested claims kept apart from independent evidence, and every unanswered question listed.
Submittal register review
The project engineer gets one register of every required submittal: what has arrived, the review status as recorded, the documents still missing and the long-lead items at risk against the date each order must be placed. Nothing is routed, accepted or ordered.
Supplier bill review and payment-run preparation
Before each payment run, the person who approves it gets one sheet: every supplier bill checked against its purchase order and what was received, duplicates and changed bank details stopped, credits shown, and a proposed run with its total. Nothing is paid until a person approves.
Supplier delivery date check
The purchasing or operations person gets one comparison from the open purchase orders and the supplier replies: promised and revised dates side by side, the orders each change puts at risk, and the follow-ups still unanswered. No supplier is contacted.
Supplier issue notice
When a supplier bills for more than was ordered or received, or falls short of an agreed delivery or quality target, the buyer gets a formal notice ready for approval: each problem set against the record, the evidence listed, what the supplier must do and the date to reply by. A person approves and sends it.
Supplier spend analysis
From one accounts-payable export, the finance or operations lead sees where the money goes: spend cleaned and grouped by category and supplier, the few suppliers that take most of it, the tail, needs bought from several suppliers and consolidation opportunities, each with its figures. A person decides what to act on.
Three-week look-ahead constraint review
Before the coordination meeting, the superintendent gets a brief that sets each planned activity of the next three weeks beside what could hold it up: trades sharing an area, unfinished predecessors, open approvals, late deliveries and unanswered RFIs. The superintendent confirms the sequence and assigns the follow-up.
Vendor quote comparison
Before anyone signs, the person choosing a vendor gets one sheet: the criteria agreed first, every quote costed the same way, and each vendor eliminated with its reason, on hold with the question that settles it, or shortlisted with its trade-offs. A person chooses; contract terms go to your reviewer.
Vendor renewal review
Before a supplier's notice date, the operations lead takes one page to the decision: the dates counted from the ones you supply, how much of what you pay for is used, what it has cost and what renewal would cost, how the supplier has performed, and the questions to ask. Nothing is sent or cancelled.