TY  - CONF
TI  - Resource Basins - A Strategic Challenge for the Building Industry
C1  - Helsingør, Denmark
C3  - 12th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
PY  - 2004
AU  - Moller, Malene
AU  - Bejder, Erik
AD  - Consultant, Department of Process & IT, Danish Technological Institute, DK 2630 Taastrup, Denmark, +45 72 20 22 54, malene.moller@teknologisk.dk
AD  - Associate Professor Ph.D, Department of Production, Aalborg University, DK 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark, +45 9635 8950, i9eb@iprod.aau.dk
ED  - Bertelsen, Sven
ED  - Formoso, Carlos T.
AB  - The point of departure of this paper are assertion statements about advantages and unsuitable elements of the use ofpartnering in the construction industry today. Next, the view is turned towards the manufacturing industry for inspiration on how a learning environment is formed by making strategic partnering suitable for the nature of the construction industry. It is argued that effectiveness and efficiency in the construction industry can be improved by giving the partnering cooperation a strategic focus which involves the development of competing Resource Basins, i.e. groups of long term cooperating companies in the supply chain, or rather, in the supply network. The suggested way to form a learning environment combines some of the advantages from the production philosophies Supply Chain Management, Agile Manufacturing and Extended Enterprise in connection with Virtual Enterprise with the characteristics of construction. The idea is to establish a joint grounding in a group of companies. The solidarity and cooperation between the companies exist independently of specific projects. It forms a learning environment in the resource basin in which knowledge gained from different projects is collected and distributed to all the members of the resource basin. At the beginning of a specific project, i.e. a potential customer knocks at the door, the most suitable resources from the basin are assigned to the job. These resources form a project group for this project. This differs from a traditional project group in the building sector because these resources already are thoroughly familiar with each other, i.e. they have shared common cooperation values, and they have developed integrated logistic systems, quality systems, information systems, continuous improvement systems etc. Finally, barriers and thoughts about how this learning environment can be brought into the construction industry are discussed.
KW  - Strategic Partnering
KW  - Resource Basins
KW  - Supply Chain Management
KW  - Agile Manufacturing
KW  - Extended Enterprise and Virtual Enterprise.
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T2  - 12th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2004/08/03
CY  - Helsingør, Denmark
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/286/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/286
N1  - Export Date: 18 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -