The American Institute of Steel Construction continues to drill deep into the steel sector's supply chain to improve both e-commerce and steel deliveries to fabricators. AISC's ongoing e-procurement initiative, called steelXML, has even inspired an independent study that is researching the need for a digital tool that would use steelXML's e-purchasing data to help designers create structures that are more efficient, economical and sustainable.
"We need to advance e-procurement," said Matthew J. Gomez, national manager for construction solutions with supplier Gerdau and chairman of the AISC steelXML technical group, at AISC's 2015 North American Steel Construction Conference, held on March 25-28 in Nashville.