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ROSENDIN'S CORE VALUES

deploy different PV plant installation have become detectives on the hunt and regions. We should also be taking
methodologies that front-load most for limited supplies. advantage of our size and reputation to
of the Plant Balance of System (BOS) provide solutions that our competitors
infrastructure and componentry in “While Rosendin hasn’t made major cannot by offering expertise, ideas, and
advance of delayed module deliveries. changes to how things are done daily, substitutions, to give ourselves a top
In most cases, this still keeps projects price needs to be communicated across advantage.”
on schedule, meeting clients’ and the enterprise, from Estimating to
customers’ Power Purchase Agreement Operations,” explained Chris Alloway, WE INNOVATE
(PPA) requirements. On the supply Senior Purchasing Agent at Rosendin. Rosendin prioritizes innovation in
chain side, RREG has taken a similar “By doing this, expectations and every aspect of what we do.
collaborative approach to early-stage surprises for a change order for a piece
procurement planning by leveraging of equipment that purchasing can’t The state of the world has accelerated
Rosendin’s significant collective get can be mitigated. There have been innovation in prefab and packaging
purchasing power to secure longer- instances where substitute solutions in ways that are sometimes not that
term procurement commitments and have been offered to get around long obvious. Steve Rose, Rosendin’s
commodity hedging contracts under lead times. For switchgear, we have Corporate Director of Prefabrication
client-issued Limited Notice to Proceed had cases where the manufacturers and Packaging, says, “We have long
(LNTP) agreements. This has allowed wanted to ship gear that wasn’t fully been working and moving in the
RREG to cap pricing risk and assure assembled while they wait for the direction of ‘just in time’ as a Lean
timely deliveries. supply chain to catch up.” contractor and now find ourselves
balancing ‘just in time’ with ‘just in
From a Rosendin risk mitigation “Some of our suppliers or our suppliers’ case’. We are ordering materials such
perspective, “we also must be suppliers have had to let us know that as conduit, Unistrut, and copper in
mindful of how we cannot allow these lead times are unpredictable, and it’s bulk, ‘just in case’ and managing the
risks to waterfall down through our important that we relay that when we material storage, handling, and prefab
EPC contract commitments,” says look at a project or when we bid on a and packaging as close to ‘just in time’
Fredericks. “While working proactively job,” says Alloway. He continues, “It’s for that last mile to the job and the
with clients to provide these innovative important, with the way things have installation.”
solutions, we have also been successful changed, that we share what we know
in making sure that RREG avoids most and hear. We’re a large company and Rose continues, “Our BIM, Technology,
market risks by crafting new Force should be getting the best information and Analytics Group is helping that
Majeure language and Liquidated available in the supply chain market effort by working towards an innovative
Damages terms. Thus, removing most and getting the best deals we can. solution that will allow for greater
all waterfall risk on modules and other However, we can only do that when connectivity, communication, visibility,
key component schedule deliveries and we share across departments, offices, and transparency across business units.
capping performance risk exposure
for those items we purchase directly.
Getting our clients to agree to these
new contractual changes says a lot
about just how much they have come
to value what the RREG does to help
them address these current market
pitfalls.“
WE SHARE
We collaborate, inspire and
challenge one another.
Purchasing construction materials
has become less predictable since
the pandemic and global economic
conditions, along with fewer workers
on the factory floors, shortages in
microchips, and distribution struggles Unistrut Keeping Trench
(both globally and nationally) have all Cards in Place
led to uncertainties. Purchasing agents

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