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timeframes. We quite often procrastinate or leave things until the last minute, and it means we cannot achieve our deadline.
4.2.1 Time in Motion in the tender process
You have a tender that needs to be requested on the 20th of September for it to be submitted on the 30th of September. There are various parts that make up the tender that you need other people, subcontractors, to put together and give to you so that you can put your tender in. Some of those subcontractors may take five days or so to put their tender together. If you leave it until the 26th of September, and it takes five days to get the subcontractors’ tenders, you’re not going to get your tender together in time and you’re going to miss that opportunity.
Time in Motion says that as soon as you get the tender, you fire out all those tender requests to your subcontractors so you know they’ll come back in good time for you to be able to put your tender together. You also make sure that you tell these people the date that you need the tender back by.
If you are getting close to your tender date and you haven’t received those tenders back because you haven’t allowed enough Time in Motion, there is panic. It also allows room for mistakes to be made when the pressure is put on by time restraints and rushing things. More importantly, it means that you could lose opportunities.
4.2.2 Time in Motion in product supply
You are installing products on a roof. There may be a project where a particular, unusual, roof flashing is required. It takes a day to make one flashing. The management knows of the upcoming project and assumes you have stock. Out of the blue, the warehouse receives an order five days