Supply Chain Management in Residential Construction Sector
Deshmukh P. S1, More A. B2, Chavan S. A3
1Ms. Deshmukh P. S, Student, Civil Department, JSPM ICOER, Maharashtra, India.
2Dr. More A. B, Professors, Civil Department, JSPM ICOER, Maharashtra, India.
3Ms. Chavan S. A, Assistant Professor, Civil Department, AISSMS, Maharashtra, India.
Manuscript received on November 11, 2014. | Revised Manuscript received on November 27, 2014. | Manuscript published on December 30, 2014. | PP: 87-90 | Volume-4 Issue-2, December 2014. | Retrieval Number: B3611124214/2013©BEIESP
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Abstract: Supply chain management (SCM) is a concept which originated from manufacturing industry to control logistics. SCM is a management process by which organization control the worldwide network of stockholder such as supplier retailer and distributer through which raw material are procure, manufacture final product and delivered to customers. In construction process, procurement activities occur during all stage of a project. Construction process is fragmented so supplier of resources like man, material, money and machine are not available at right time and right quantity. It is difficult to control all the activity, so SCM process is more essential to control over all the activity on the construction process. In this paper introduce the concept of supply chain management in construction sector. Also explain the problem to adopt the supply chain management process in the residential construction projects and describe the benefits in effective implementation of SCM. Finally explain simple model of SC in residential project.
Keywords: Residential construction firm, Supply chain management, Social housing.