Supply Chain Management in Construction Industry

Syama Krishnakumar, Linu T. Kuriakose

Abstract: Construction industry faces a lot of inherent uncertainties and issues. Application of supply chain management philosophy to the construction industry has been widely investigated in recent years as effective and efficient management measure and strategy to improve the performance of construction. Supply chain management (SCM) can be considered as the coordination of distributed decision making of organization on material flow and information flow. Supplier selection is one of the important factors in Supply Chain Management. This paper contains a review on generally used methods and factors for supplier selection by other industries.

Keywords: Supply chain management, construction industry, supplier selection, coordination