The Whole is more powerful than the Part

An early morning meeting was recently held in the Forum Centre with representatives from across all group business areas.

The purpose of the meeting was to look at how the group should work together in the future to maximize opportunities, purchasing power and enhance bottom line contribution.

The outcomes were –

- Consider Group Induction process for all Group new starters
- Roll out Intravale as the intergroup communication medium and provide appropriate training
- Fitzgeralds, Electec and PJM Adams to attend quarterly review meetings
- Establish an intergroup trading Champion
- Create a better understanding of Group Companies areas of activity and Business Plans
- Cascade the advantages of intergroup trading down to Estimators, Buyers and QS’s
- Introduce regular “functionary” intergroup meetings as a means of sharing best practice and current business activity ie procurement,estimating, commercial
- Create early visibility of opportunities for intergroup trading, by publishing both future and current tender opportunities on intravale
- Publish Group Companies organograms on intravale along with photographs of key staff and their roles/contact details
- Analyse divisional spend in electrical installations and agree a value that should be identified as the Electec Target Spend within each division
- Create rule book and process map for working with intergroup companies at both tender and contract stages.
- Publish Fitz and Electec KPI performance information monthly for Group board
- Create 5yr plan towards true intergroup integration

Over the coming weeks / months additional meetings will be held to focus on how we get to a totally integrated and cohesive supply chain focusing initially on group business areas.

A core team to push and monitor this will comprise of Steve Green, Geoff Wylde, Tony Hyde, Bill Munn and others will be invited in due course.