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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... Manufacturing Engineering Loughborough University Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom Nashwan Dawood School of Science and Technology University of Teesside Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom Stephen M. Disney Cardiff Business ...
... Manufacturing Engineering Loughborough University Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom Nashwan Dawood School of Science and Technology University of Teesside Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom Stephen M. Disney Cardiff Business ...
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... Massachusetts Ruben Vrijhoef Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands R.I. Young Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Loughborough University Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom xii Contributors.
... Massachusetts Ruben Vrijhoef Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands R.I. Young Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Loughborough University Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom xii Contributors.
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... manufacturing supply chain management, where the emphasis is on modeling volume production. CSCM is more concerned with the coordination of discrete quantities of materials (and associated specialty engineering services) delivered to ...
... manufacturing supply chain management, where the emphasis is on modeling volume production. CSCM is more concerned with the coordination of discrete quantities of materials (and associated specialty engineering services) delivered to ...
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... manufacturing firms have recognized supply chain management (SCM) as a new way of doing business. The implementation of this new approach was a consequence of various changes in manufacturing environments, such as development of ...
... manufacturing firms have recognized supply chain management (SCM) as a new way of doing business. The implementation of this new approach was a consequence of various changes in manufacturing environments, such as development of ...
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... manufacturing context include, for example, spreadsheet-based inventory and mathematical programming models (e.g. linear and integer programming), discrete event simulation models [Kleijnen 2005], game theory, and decision support ...
... manufacturing context include, for example, spreadsheet-based inventory and mathematical programming models (e.g. linear and integer programming), discrete event simulation models [Kleijnen 2005], game theory, and decision support ...
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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