Applicability Study Of Supply Chain Management In Construction Industry

With the development of info technique, construction industry has being required more. On the one hand, economic globalization weakens national boundaries, market competition take on character of incorporation, some big construction corporations have being extended their business all over the world; on the other hand, because of the complication of construction projects, owners are inclined to transfer the responsibility of design, construction, procurement etc to contractors. So having the synthesis predominance on capital, management, intelligence etc in big corporations and core competence in small corporations are required. As far as our country's construction industry goes, the corporations take on "big but not strong enough, small but not proficient enough". Under such condition, in order to overtake the foreign corporations as well as studying from them, it is significant to reform our construction industry. Base on these reasons involved, the concept of supply chain management (SCM, Supply Chain Management) is introduced in the thesis which provides some advice on how to transform both inside and outside of construction corporations.Established on the whole construction industry, the thesis analyses the necessity and feasibility of put SCM in practice. According to SCM theory, the reform of construction industry must be done not only inside but also outside. So business process may be reengineered inside corporations and favorable symbiosis among participators should be cultivated outside corporations. As a result, supply chain net relationship could be established which makes big contractors as core corporations and material and facilities providers, designers, sub-contractors and owners as partners.Concerning the thesis's skeleton, at first, the meaning and capital theories of SCM are introduced briefly (chapter 2); secondly, whether SCM is agreement with construction industry and how to establish the right model are discussed (chapter 3); thirdly, how to put SCM in practice is studied (chapter 4); at last, how to appraise the achievement of SCM and how to spur the partners in construction industry are given (chapter 5).