creating value for project stakeholders in the construction process: managing construction supply chain for value creation - Softcover

Emuze, Fidelis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3844322175 ISBN 13: 9783844322170

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Horizontal integration that is common place in the construction industry tends to fragment the supply chain, resulting in an unstable production environment occasioned by high unpredictability, much rework, low profits and eventual low level of value creation in the process. Therefore, an increased level of integration of interfaces and processes has been canvassed. The purpose of supply chain management is to achieve the expected increased level of integration of the whole supply chain. Supply chain management has long been advocated as a means of improving the performance of supply chains in construction. This research study reports on an investigation into the impact of supply chain management on value creation in the South African construction industry. The research discovered that collaborative working is already in the industry and contractors consider supply chain management important for project success.Here construction supply chains were approached from the relationship view point.

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About the Author

Fidelis Emuze, MSc (BE), ICIOB,GMICE,AMSAICE, is a PhD (Construction Management) candidate at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He has over seven years of construction industry experience in Nigeria and South Africa. His research focus area is relative to construction project management.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3844322175
• ISBN 13: 9783844322170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120