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Service 05 · Consolidated Project Procurement · Flagship

Many factories. One chain of responsibility.

A real lighting project spans eight suppliers — luminaires, drivers, control gear, cables, connectors, emergency units, mounting hardware. We coordinate all of them under one specification, one gate system and one project archive. You still contract each factory directly. We still never touch the money.

From USD 50k project valueGates at every factoryOne master archiveClient signs each factory
Discuss a project → See how it works
01 / The situation

Projects don't fail at a factory. They fail between factories.

The interfaces — who supplies what to whom, on which date, to which standard — are where projects actually break.

FAILURE MODE 01

Eight suppliers, eight excuses.

The luminaire maker blames the driver vendor. The driver vendor cites your spec. The module maker blames the bin. Nobody owns the interface.

→We own the interfaces: cross-vendor responsibility mapping is written into the consolidated specification — before production starts.
FAILURE MODE 02

The container mixes five purchase orders.

And nobody verified what actually went inside. Missing spare drivers, wrong cable grade, emergency units from a batch nobody gated.

→Gates at every factory, then one consolidated inspection before the container closes — against one master checklist.
FAILURE MODE 03

Compliance breaks at category level.

Cable CPR class, connector EN 61984, emergency lighting EN 60598-2-22 — the adjacent categories that no luminaire audit ever covered.

→Adjacent-category standards are built into the scope: verified per category, documented per category.
02 / How it works

One specification. Gates everywhere. One archive.

Each factory runs its own gates. The consolidation — merged container, unified documents, one master file — is what we add.

STEP 1

Consolidated specification

One lifetime-chain specification across all categories: luminaires, drivers and spares, control gear / DALI gateways, cables & connectors, emergency units, mounting hardware.

OUT · consolidated PS
STEP 2

Per-category sourcing

Shortlist per factory, aligned quotes across categories — deviations registered, interfaces mapped.

OUT · SLD + AQC × n
STEP 3

Gates at every factory

Golden sample → FAI → mid-line → pre-shipment, at each plant. Adjacent categories verified per their own standards.

OUT · gate reports × n
STEP 4

Consolidated inspection & loading

One overall check against the master checklist, then a merged container — coordinated with your nominated freight forwarder.

OUT · consolidated inspection record
STEP 5

One project master file

Unified documents: every specification, every gate, every factory, every container — one archive, retained 24 months.

OUT · project master file
03 / Working together

The whole cooperation on one page.

Lanes are the parties. Left to right is time. Dashed orange lines are money flows — note that none of them passes through our lane.

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04 / What you receive

Project-level deliverables, on top of every factory's gates.

Everything from Managed Project Sourcing, per factory — plus the consolidation layer:

CPS
Consolidated Project Specification
One specification covering every category, with interface definitions: who supplies what to whom, on which date, to which standard.
RESP
Responsibility Map
Cross-vendor responsibility matrix — the document that ends the blame loop before it starts.
CIR
Consolidated Inspection Record
The master checklist for the merged container: every PO, every factory, every quantity, verified before closing.
PMF
Project Master File
One archive for the whole project: all specifications, all gate reports, all shipping records, all factories. Retained 24 months.
05 / Scope & pricing

Project-level engagement, project-level terms.

The economics build on Managed Project Sourcing, extended to every factory in the project.

Project minimum
We only take projects where the consolidation layer earns its keep
USD 50,000 project value
Gate execution
Per factory, as Managed Project Sourcing — same rates, same rules
5–6% per order value
Consolidation layer
Consolidated specification, responsibility map, master checklist, project archive
quoted per project

Every fee is stated before the project starts. You contract and pay each factory directly.

06 / What we don't do

Independence survives project size.

The bigger the project, the more this list matters.

✕Not a one-stop shop — we don't buy and resell. “One-stop” is trading language; this is a coordination service.
✕Never touch payments — you pay each factory directly. We hold no project funds.
✕Not a freight forwarder — the merged container is coordinated with your nominated forwarder.
✕No category we can't verify — if we lack the standards capability for an adjacent category, we say so before quoting — not after.

Have a project with more than one factory?

Bring us the bill of suppliers. We'll map the interfaces, price the consolidation layer, and tell you honestly whether this service fits — or whether Managed Project Sourcing per factory is enough.
Discuss the project →
07 / Enquiry

Put the whole project on the table.

How many suppliers, what ships together, where the interfaces are. The reply maps the responsibility chain and quotes the integration layer as one fixed fee.

Enquiring about

Consolidated Project Procurement

One form for this service. The engineer who would run the case reads every message — no autoresponder, no newsletter, no sales sequence.

  • 01First reply within 24 hours, Mon–Fri.
  • 02Scope and a fixed price before any work starts.
  • 03Your details stay yours — GDPR-compliant, deletable on request.
Request noted. We reply within 24 hours with the interface questions (IF-01 to IF-07) and a first view of the responsibility chain.
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