Construction Supply Chain Management: Concepts and Case Studies

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a unique appraisal of supply chain management (SCM) concepts alongside lessons from industry, observation and analysis gathered during the first decade of supply chain management strategies in the UK construction industry.

The research from leading international academics has been drawn together with the experience from some of the industry's foremost SCM practitioners to provide both a definition of SCM and an overview of its development as a strategy for managing construction projects.

Key case study material - from Slough Estates to BAA and T5 - illustrates the benefits to the industry of its adoption. Little has been written on the application of SCM to construction and this book provides an agenda for discussion for both the experienced researcher and the industry practitioner by offering a thorough grounding in its principles as well as an illustration of SCM as a methodology for industry.

Construction Supply Chain Management studies makes an important contribution to the debate on innovative systems and their significance in increasingly complex construction projects.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–19): Dr Stephen Pryke
Chapter 2 The Concept and Development of Supply Chain Management in the UK Construction Industry (pages 23–41): Roy Morledge, Dr Andrew Knight and Mohieddin Grada
Chapter 3 Culture in Supply Chains (pages 42–72): Richard Fellows
Chapter 4 Learning to Co?Operate and Co?Operating to Learn: Knowledge, Learning and Innovation in Construction Supply Chains (pages 73–91): Mike Bresnen
Chapter 5 Marketing and Pricing Strategy (pages 92–111): Martin Skitmore and Dr Hedley Smyth
Chapter 6 Risk Management and the Supply Chain (pages 115–136): Dr Andrew Edkins
Chapter 7 Slough Estates in the 1990s – Client Driven SCM (pages 137–159): Dr Bernard Rimmer
Chapter 8 From Heathrow Express to Heathrow Terminal 5: BAA's Development of Supply Chain Management (pages 160–181): Keith Potts
Chapter 9 Supply Chain Management: A Main Contractor's Perspective (pages 182–198): Dr Andrew P. King and Martin C. Pitt
Chapter 10 Franchising the Supply Chain (pages 199–211): Dr Hedley Smyth
Chapter 11 Conclusion (pages 212–224): Dr Stephen Pryke