Strategic Procurement’s Influence on Construction Project Success of Granna.Com

Abstract

Procurement has evolved into strategy for quality improvement and production cost cutting to increase efficiency. Construction sectors contribute a significant percentage to the GDP of any country as it is second largest sector in Pakistan economy after agriculture . Strategic procurement practices are more interconnected and dynamic networks. In Pakistan, construction industry has been understudied and still relying on traditional procurement methods and practices. The objective of this research work is to scrutinize the key aspects of strategic procurement, correlation between them and strategic procurement and on project success in construction industry of Pakistan. This study is conducted through a broad survey of construction industry and focus is made on factors shape the procurement decision. This study sampling including site engineers, project managers , safety officer , skilled and unskilled labor . using convenient sampling only 15 participants were selected to provide in-depth details with the help of semi structure interview, surveys and onsite observation while secondary data was collected from the company guideline, current industry reports and earlier research were also utilized for the outcomes. This current study provides step by step guide regarding construction process. Strategic procurement was identified as a crucial link between supply chain management and success of the project, availability of materials , quality maintain and maintain cost control. To address different challenges faced by Granna.com various innovative solution was implemented like strengthening the planning system of procurement , improving supplier performance and selecting, adapting new technologies involving AI tracking system and handling the contract management. These finding explain the positive impact on different areas like finance, time, quality and cross department communication leading to reduce cost , enhanced quality , better relationship with the vendors, error free documentation and more excellent project delivery. This research summarizes that strategic procurement act as an important driver within the construction project success. It ensures that on time project delivery , trustworthy vendor accountability and collaborated team work elevates the project quality . As our research is based on small sampling and single company, this study has real life insight and functional framework which other construction company might need to balance their procurement process and finding of project delivery. Overall Granna.com solved their regularly faced problem just by shifting the procurement from reactive to collaborated and automated tech driven system.