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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... demand increasing product variety, lower cost, better quality, and faster response. Competition is shifting from firm versus firm to supply chain (SC) versus SC [Vonderembse et al. 2006; Min and Zhou 2002]. Successful firms such as Wal ...
... demand increasing product variety, lower cost, better quality, and faster response. Competition is shifting from firm versus firm to supply chain (SC) versus SC [Vonderembse et al. 2006; Min and Zhou 2002]. Successful firms such as Wal ...
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... (demand and supply) that a company faces is essential for developing the right capabilities or abilities to serve its markets. A SC may need to emphasize either its responsiveness or efficiency capabilities, depending on a set of final ...
... (demand and supply) that a company faces is essential for developing the right capabilities or abilities to serve its markets. A SC may need to emphasize either its responsiveness or efficiency capabilities, depending on a set of final ...
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... demand? Should that plant be located in Asia or South America? How much high-grade and low-grade steel should be ... demands from each market, finding alternatives to consolidating orders from Mexico and Brazil to reduce Construction ...
... demand? Should that plant be located in Asia or South America? How much high-grade and low-grade steel should be ... demands from each market, finding alternatives to consolidating orders from Mexico and Brazil to reduce Construction ...
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... demand. The same operations are executed for each production run in a standard and usually automated flow and all products are very similar. Automobile production is a classic example of line flow processes. Finally, the continuous flow ...
... demand. The same operations are executed for each production run in a standard and usually automated flow and all products are very similar. Automobile production is a classic example of line flow processes. Finally, the continuous flow ...
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... demand. In the steel manufacturer scenario, customer demand is fairly stable, the older plant presents higher variability due to old machinery, and delivery performance to Brazil and Korea are much more variable than deliveries to the ...
... demand. In the steel manufacturer scenario, customer demand is fairly stable, the older plant presents higher variability due to old machinery, and delivery performance to Brazil and Korea are much more variable than deliveries to the ...
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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Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook William J. O'Brien,Carlos T. Formoso,Vrijhoef Ruben,Kerry London No preview available - 2008 |
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