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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... construction management since 1991. He is the head of the Construction Management Research Group at UFRGS, leading a ... industry in the last 15 years, most of them funded both by the Brazilian Government and private companies. He has ...
... construction management since 1991. He is the head of the Construction Management Research Group at UFRGS, leading a ... industry in the last 15 years, most of them funded both by the Brazilian Government and private companies. He has ...
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... construction industry. Dr. O'Brien holds a PhD and an MS degree in Civil Engineering and an MS degree in Engineering ... construction process innovations at TNO Built Environment and Geosciences in The Netherlands. In addition, from 1998 ...
... construction industry. Dr. O'Brien holds a PhD and an MS degree in Civil Engineering and an MS degree in Engineering ... construction process innovations at TNO Built Environment and Geosciences in The Netherlands. In addition, from 1998 ...
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... construction projects. The organization and sourcing of materials is becoming increasingly complex across the global construction industry. Mounting emphasis on CSCM is due to both global sourcing of materials and assemblies provided by ...
... construction projects. The organization and sourcing of materials is becoming increasingly complex across the global construction industry. Mounting emphasis on CSCM is due to both global sourcing of materials and assemblies provided by ...
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... construction industry. The chapter discusses dominant views on the construction supply chain existing on those three levels. In Chapter 11, Dennis Towill tests the premise that construction projects and the sector as such are often ...
... construction industry. The chapter discusses dominant views on the construction supply chain existing on those three levels. In Chapter 11, Dennis Towill tests the premise that construction projects and the sector as such are often ...
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... construction win–win situations are hard to achieve. Construction clients need to consider different relationships for ... industry. In this chapter the application of a series of innovation management tools in the construction supply ...
... construction win–win situations are hard to achieve. Construction clients need to consider different relationships for ... industry. In this chapter the application of a series of innovation management tools in the construction supply ...
Contents
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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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