“ As the construction project management team continued to grow we wanted to take some of the sourcing workload off those guys , because they had challenges of their own ,” he says . “ Together , we ’ ve been doing all of the sourcing . We try to forecast at least two years ahead , and we ’ ve got to continue evolving that because we ' re still seeing supply issues and challenges .”
Being able to source strategically has allowed DataBank to avoid costly supply chain delays .
“ It ’ s enabled us to quickly deploy and to not lose six months to a year on deliverable timelines , which would ' ve lost us customers ,” he says . “ We ' re actually growing quite rapidly . We ' ve scaled over the past few years and I think we ' re going to continue to scale over the next few years . Continuing to develop the teams we need has been quite a challenge and will continue to be so , but it ’ s proved very important .”
DataBank ’ s growth has been consistent and strategic . It ’ s been facilitated by smart procurement but also many other factors , says Qorri .
“ We have built scalability into the business by creating a forecast that shows , quarter over quarter , what the market looks like , and from this we created a stocking programme .
“ We bought everything from transformers to generators , and also downstream . But we didn ' t want to over-buy , so we were strategic about it , and it ’ s the best thing we ever did because it has allowed us to grow at a sustainable rate .”
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