Product Service Systems in Construction Supply Chains

From Supply Chains to Total Product Systems

The evolution of supply chain management and practice has had an integral and expanding role in contemporary global economic and socio-political change over the past 25 years or so. This role is moving closer to centre stage with the emergence of business models equating to ‘total product systems’. The impacts of advanced supply chain practice include driving fundamental changes in approach to ...

Construction Supply Chains:

This paper presents current supply chain configurations for concrete reinforcement steel (rebar) in the Turkish construction industry. The supply chains were assessed by the value stream mapping method and were investigated through visits to firms involved in the supply chain and interviews with practitioners. Five different types of rebar supply chain configurations were identified in the case...

Amplification in Service Supply Chains

Evidence on the impact of amplification, or bullwhip, effects on supply chain performance has primarily been derived from studies in manufacturing industries. This paper reports on a case study from the telecommunication industry, aiming to analyze relevant root causes and associated counter-measures of the amplification phenomenon in service supply chains. Case findings confirm the occurrence ...

Inventory Positioning in Multiple Product Supply Chains

Product Construction Service

The ABSTRACT FACTORY pattern is a solution often used for isolating clients from the construction of concrete objects. Normally a new concrete factory class is developed for each concrete product family. Therefore new specific construction code has to be written each time a new product family needs to be supported. This approach influences software productivity negatively as it only covers the ...