Vista Projects Develops World-Class Supply Chain Management Software
After speaking with Chad Radke for over an hour last week I quietly realized that he was part of a team of early adopters, inventors and visionaries at Vista Projects. Back in 2019, Radke, Vista’s Projects Director, and his team discovered a problem in need of a solution.
“We realized that if we needed immediate access to specific procurement data it would be like finding a needle in a haystack,” says Radke. “We needed a way to help us work smarter.”
The solution, as it turns out, was a uniquely designed software that provided a place to store the “data lake” for the integrated engineering company. The home-grown software provided Vista staff and contractors with a pinpoint accurate way to manage supply chains for their clients. Vista has had many clients over the years and – since 1985 – have managed thousands of data points and over 1,000 projects.
“Current SCM was born out of necessity,” says Radke. “We needed something more robust, effective and efficient than excel spreadsheets and something less costly and rigid than an enterprise resource planning (ERP) tool.”
And so Current SCM was built.
In two short years Current SCM quickly made its way from alpha and beta testing to a commercially available software-as-a-service in the summer of 2021.
“Current SCM is a game-changer for our clients and a competitive differentiator for Vista.”
Chad Radke, Project Director
Radke says the easy-to-use tool has provided a 10-fold increase in transparency and access to available data….a game-changer for his clients and a competitive differentiator for Vista.
Current SCM is a practical, cost-effective, flexible and confidence-building tool that streamlines the procurement process for project managers and procurement professionals. The collaborative tool provides tremendous value – and transparency – to professionals in the engineering, construction management, fabrication and contract manufacturing industries among others.
“Vista will have over 75 staff and contractors using Current SCM this fall,” say Radke. “It has provided our clients with an additional layer of trust, transparency, consistency and collaboration that wasn’t there before.”
Sometimes early adopters don’t always win, however, in the case of Vista Projects and Current SCM – everybody seems to be winning.
Engaged in Complex Procurement?
Current SCM is a cloud-based software that streamlines the process of project-based procurement & materials management and drives collaboration among project stakeholders. The term “project” can be defined as a construction project or a manufacturing project, or it can simply represent the way a business organizes their procurement (e.g., by project, program, product, client, division, business unit, region).
Current SCM offers a unique platform to manage the end-to-end process of project-driven supply chain management, including support for the planning, procurement, and management of both materials and services. Current SCM includes a robust set of project-based toolsets, including Project Planning, Material Planning, Service Planning, Vendor Document Requirements Management, Requisition Management, Bid Management, Purchase Order Management, Service Order Management, Material & Document Tracking, Inspection Management, Vendor Invoice Matching, Project Inventory Management, Project Asset Management, and more!
And Current SCM excels in accommodating diverse project requirements with unrivaled flexibility & control, including project-specific User access & permissions, cost structures, business rules, approved vendors, workflows, terms, reports, and much, much more!
If you engage in any of Project Procurement, Technical Procurement, Direct Procurement, or Third Party Procurement, Current SCM will optimize your procurement & materials management workflow. If you engage in all four, Current SCM will revolutionize the way you do business.
Contact the team at Current SCM today to learn more!
