Vendor expediting

GQS has a long and consolidated experience in multidisciplinary expediting services. We can provide highly qualified and extremely competent expeditors duly selected from an extensive team of technicians available around the globe. Vendor expediting services are available on request and even at short notice.

Services provided include:

Desk expediting services
This kind of service is generally performed on low criticality or non-strategic supplies. Desk expediting is a best used to obtain general information like, submission of the required documentation, placement of sub orders, overall progress of the fabrication, and deliveries; relevant to a certain supply. This kind of service is generally performed at specific milestones or according to a frequency established by the customers, or suggested by the expeditor. The success of the desk expediting service is maximized if performed in conjunction with field expediting visits.

Field expediting services
GQS provides a wide range of on-field expediting services to ensure its customers, that all stages of engineering, procurement, fabrication and delivery processes are timely performed by their manufacturers in compliance with a known, agreed and reliable production programme. This kind of service is generally performed at main vendor or sub vendor ‘premises; at specific milestones or according to a frequency established by the customers, or suggested by the field expeditors.

Full-time expediting services (resident base assignments)
A full-time expediting services is normally performed whenever a client requires an expeditor to visit a certain vendor on a full time basis for a given period of time. The full-time expediting services allow to monitor all the production process and ensure that the expected delivery dates are met.

Project Coordination
The tasks of the Project coordinator are not limited just to schedule of visits and submission of reports; our project coordinators are fully involved since the beginning of the assignment in establishing along with the customer the level of services required; instruct the field personnel, feed them with all the information , documentation and instructions relevant to the assigned tasks, including established frequency of visits. Our Project coordinators have been trained to project management philosophy with a proactive attitude to problem solving.

Training
It is a fact that the companies are made of people, and people is the key of the success of any service provider organization. We at GQS employs highly qualified and extremely competent expeditors, with multidisciplinary expertise which includes, engineering, procurement, planning, production and logistics. GQS is committed to continuous training of the personnel it employs to keep them up-to-dated on the latest expediting methodologies.

Training provided includes: Expediting methodologies, Problem solving, Lesson learnt.

Reporting
As a matter of fact, the report is the “product” which ultimately any service provider organization provides to its customers. GQS have clear in mind the importance of providing a clear and precise report to its customers, as the report has to reflect what has been performed during the expediting activities. All of the GQS expeditors have been trained and instructed to fill each reports with the maximum extent of details. Digital pictures are also provided to enhance the report content. Each and every reports are duly screened and checked by the assigned Project coordinator, before submission to the customer. The timely submission of the reports is a very crucial element in this process, and both our expeditors and the project coordinators have been instructed to settle the process within the shortest possible time. GQS format or customer’s format can be used, as required.