Improving supply chain management in construction: What can be learned from the electronics industry?
conference paper
Construction projects require the involvement of a complex system of multiple firms. The involvement of these firms cannot do without co-ordination mechanisms that keep these enterprises together. Different organisations join together and operate as a single company in order to deliver a one-off end product to the final customer. Thus, a construction project can be viewed as a collaborative network of firms acting as a ‘company without walls’. The existence of these extended enterprises in construction raises the question of configuration and co-ordination of the supply chain as a virtual organisation. The topic of configuration addresses the distribution of activities among the parties involved in construction projects. When discussing co ordination, the question is which mechanisms keep the different parties together into one construction project. Next, the ultimate objective of the construction project, i.e. delivering a custom-made product to the end customer, raises the question of client responsiveness and involvement of client’s wishes into the supply chain process, or the power of a client to enforce this.
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TNO Identifier
330789
Source title
Proceedings CIB World Buidling Congress, Toronto, Canada, 2-7 May
Pages
1-11
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