Despite the increased amount of attention to developing lean and green supply chains, there is a lack of comprehensive frameworks and a shortage of information on how to integrate environmental initiatives and lean techniques into supply chain functions. This has mainly occurred as a result of four challenges: conceptual, technical, operational, and measurement. To face these challenges, a prac...

This paper investigates the potential for improvement in the construction supply chain management given the current crisis in the Irish construction industry. The research was undertaken because of the need to improve productivity and tackle historical problems between main subcontractors and specialist subcontractors in the construction industry. The goal of the research is to present and anal...

Achievement of high-quality performance can provide a potential competitive edge in construction industry. Subcontracting has been identified as a source of poor quality and overall poor business performance of projects. The aim of this paper is to shown that modern ideas in Supply Chain Quality Management (SCQM) can positively impact quality problems caused by subcontracting. SCQM integrates q...

One of the major causes of delays in construction sites belongs to the delays in delivering materials. This paper introduces the integrated Building Information Modelling (BIM) model combined with a supply chain and a controlling system, along with its efficiency for alleviating the negative effects of delays caused by a lack of materials on construction sites. So, firstly the concept of feed-f...

The benefits of integrating and coordinating supply chain partners have been well recognized in many industries. In the construction industry, supply chain integration is technically challenging due to the high fragmentation of the industry. Information, applications, and services are loosely distributed among participants with a wide range of hardware and software capabilities. In addition, pa...

China’s publishing enterprise Agile Supply Chain has its own peculiarities. The authors elaborate the significance of building the Chinese publishing enterprise Agile Supply Chain based on dynamic alliance in the current highly competitive market, and then construct and analyze three models and their characteristics. At last the authors discuss some problems deriving from the information Game, ...

Collaboration and interoperability plays a very significant role in a construction supply chain. The lack of information sharing and software interoperability hampers coordination and collaboration among project participants, which are crucial to the success of a supply chain. As the Internet becomes ubiquitous and instantaneously accessible, the web services model has emerged as a promising ap...

Abstract: This study relies on integrated inventory theory which merges with the supply chain concept and aims at the steel bar material of precast factory’s two-echelon supply chain system. In order to consider the variable demand rate, unfixed supply time, unfixed supply frequency and unfixed supply quantity, this study builds a strategic model that minimizes the total inventory cost of all p...

UPPLY chain management (SCM) is a concept that has originated in the manufacturing industry to control logistics. It represents a management process by which enterprises administer and control the worldwide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed and delivered to customers. In construction, procurement...

Considering the implications of EU environmental laws such as REACH (registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemicals) and EuP (directive on eco-design of energy-using products) as well as RoHS (restrictions of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment) Directive, they have been acquired to advance GSCM (green supply chain management) mo...