Review of organizational approaches to the construction supply chain

Title: Review of organizational approaches to the construction supply chain
Creator: Vrijhoef, Ruben; London, Kerry A.
Relation: Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook p. 10-1-10-19
Relation: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781420047455
Publisher: CRC Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2009
Description: Supply chain management (SCM) for an individual organization emerged in the late 1990s as a distinct field of research in the construction management discipline. Lean construction has been universally supported in the literature and has had uptake by selected large clients and/or contractors. SCM has been ad hoc in its diffusion by practitioners in the property and construction industry; yet at the heart of the lean production concept is the supporting system of interfirm relationships along the supply chain. Lamming's empirical research, where he defined the concept of lean supply, identified the importance of the strategic arrangement of the firms that would support such a system. Lamming's concept of lean supply is important to the understanding of strategic procurement in the supply chain.
Subject: supply chain management; construction management; lean supply; strategic procurement
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918561
Identifier: uon:8647
Identifier: ISBN:9781420047455
Language: eng

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