Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook

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William J. O'Brien, Carlos T. Formoso, Vrijhoef Ruben, Kerry London
CRC Press, 2008 M10 20 - 518 pages
Mounting emphasis on construction supply chain management (CSCM) is due to both global sourcing of materials and a shortage of labor. These factors force increasing amounts of value-added work to be conducted off-site deep in the supply chain. Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook compiles in one comprehensive source an overview of the dive

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Issues and Perspectives
2-1
Chapter 3 Production Planning and Control and the Coordination of Project Supply Chains
3-1
Chapter 4 Supply Chain Management in Product Development
4-1
A ValueBased Approach
5-1
Chapter 6 Supply Chain Management for Lean Project Delivery
6-1
Chapter 7 Application of Integrated Materials Management Strategies
7-1
Chapter 8 Production System Instability and Subcontracted Labor
8-1
Chapter 9 Understanding Supply Chain Dynamics Via Simulation
9-1
Chapter 14 Innovation Management in the Construction Supply Chain
14-1
Commentary
14-23
Information Technology
14-27
Chapter 15 Overview of IT Applications in the Construction Supply Chain
15-1
Chapter 16 Field Technologies and Their Impact on Management of Supply Chains
16-1
A Case Study
17-1
Overview and Case Study Using the ISO 18629 PSL Standard
18-1
Design and Prototyping
19-1

Commentary
9-31
Organizational Perspectives
9-35
Chapter 10 Review of Organizational Approaches to the Construction Supply Chain
10-1
Chapter 11 Construction Supply Chain and the Time Compression Paradigm
11-1
Chapter 12 Strategic Management of Costruction Procurement
12-1
Chapter 13 Industrial Organization ObjectOriented Project Model of the Facade Supply Chain Cluster
13-1
Commentary
19-9
Author Index
19-13
Subject Index
19-17
Back cover
19-33
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William J. O'Brien, Carlos T. Formoso, Vrijhoef Ruben, Kerry London

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