TY  - CONF
TI  - Construction Supply Chain Improvements Through Internet Pooled Procurement
C1  - Berkeley, California, USA
C3  - 7th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 207
EP  - 218
PY  - 1999
AU  - Taylor, John
AU  - Bjornsson, Hans
AD  - Graduate Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4020.
AD  - Director, Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4020.
AB  - Construction material supply chains have evolved over time to base production and materials management decision-making on demand information from the immediate downstream node in the supply chain. This myopic view leads to demand signal amplification as individual upstream nodes attempt to forecast and fulfill orders. Further compounding this demand distortion is the fact that a great amount of demand uncertainty exists between the supply houses and contractors. Supply houses are challenged to base production and materials management decision-making on orders received from a large number of disparate contractors from diverse trades. The aforementioned demand distortion and uncertainty causes construction supply chain distribution channels to be crowded with unnecessary inventory. This paper investigates a new business model for Internet-enabled pooled procurement in construction supply chains based on research currently in-progress. Through global integration of procurement information over multiple projects, pooled procurement leads to efficiency in material manufacturing and distribution, decreased material costs to contractors and owners, and reduced transaction costs.
KW  - Supply chain management
KW  - pooled procurement
KW  - Internet-enabling technologies.
PB  - 
T2  - 7th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 1999/07/26
CY  - Berkeley, California, USA
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/85/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/85
N1  - Export Date: 20 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -