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Your construction schedule is detailed to the hour. Your procurement schedule is two lines on a Gantt chart. That's the problem.
Jeff Kaufman, founder of JIT Pro, started as a field carpenter, ran large projects as a superintendent, and moved into management where he traced nearly every late job back to the same root cause: procurement. In this episode, Jeff explains why expediting procurement doesn't save time — it compounds risk that lands three months later when the steel package shows up wrong. He and Robert get into hidden buffers versus strategic buffers owned by the whole project team, the silent transfer of risk that happens when contractors sign unrealistic schedules, and why working backward from required on-site dates often proves the buying should have started before the contract was even signed. They also cover the Living Building Challenge's double procurement process, cognitive overload on project teams, and who JIT Pro is built for: growth-stage GCs jumping from two jobs a year to five.
Guest: Jeff Kaufman, Founder, JIT Pro (jit-pro.com)
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- Welcome and Jeff's background: from field carpenter to procurement-first management
- From Excel and MS Project to building a full-stack procurement platform
- Why procurement schedules get two lines while construction schedules get thousands
- "We're not gonna make the same mistakes" — and why we always do
- Living Building Challenge: the double procurement process and reformulated materials
- Professional guesses, silent risk transfer, and the optimism that kills
- Hidden buffers vs. strategic buffers owned by the whole team
- No time to plan, plenty of time to do it twice: how we got here
- Working backward from on-site dates: the steel package you needed two months ago
- Who JIT Pro serves: growth-stage GCs going from two jobs a year to five
- Hot potatoes, cognitive overload, and telling the architect what matters most
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