Construction Supply Chain Management HandbookWilliam 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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Contents
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| 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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Bibliographic information
| Title | Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook |
| Editors | William J. O'Brien, Carlos T. Formoso, Vrijhoef Ruben, Kerry London |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | CRC Press, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1420047469, 9781420047462 |
| Length | 518 pages |
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