Applications of Inventory Management In Construction Industry

Although Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) offers many benefits to the construction industry, construction companies still hesitate to adopt ERP systems. This may be due to long-term practiced ad-hoc behaviors in the construction industry, which do not match with the standard procedures embedded in ERP systems. Therefore, through this research, it is expected to evaluate the gap between construction procedures and ERP procedures technically. Hence, to obtain indicative data for the study, a questionnaire was designed and distributed to selected 210 individuals among contractors, subcontractors, and clients in the Sri-Lankan construction industry who have used ERP. In total, 174 completed questionnaires were returned and then statistically analyzed using Chi-Square test with the Mini tab tool. It is concluded that there is a significant gap between the construction procedures and ERP procedures in identified fields related to the construction industry. The highest significant gap exists in the field of Inventory management with Chi-Square 158.766 > 9.48. And HRM (142.366), Asset Management (130.264), Finance Management (126.267), Site Operation (103.793), Project management (53.88), Purchases (34.324), Petty cash (28.337), Estimating and Tendering (22.148), Sub-Contractor management (0.492) respectively. Ultimately with the identified gaps, a framework was established to meet the organizational processes and ERP processes.

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A Material Management in Construction Project Using Inventory Management System

International Journal for Modern Trends in Science and Technology - RTT2020 ◽

10.46501/ijmtst060506 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (5) ◽

pp. 32-40

Author(s):

Ashika M ◽

Monisha V

Keyword(s):

Construction Industry ◽

Inventory Management ◽

Management System ◽

Construction Material ◽

Labour Productivity ◽

Construction Project ◽

Materials Management ◽

Control Cost ◽

Material Management ◽

Inventory Management System

Material management is a critical component of the construction industry. The goal of materials management is to insure that construction materials are available at their point of use when needed. A proper implemented material management program can achieve the timely flow of materials and equipment to the jobsite, and thus facilitate improved work face planning, increased labour productivity, scheduling and minimize the cost. Material management is an important function in order to improve productivity in construction project. It is defind materials management function which take off, vendor evaluation and selection , purchasing, expenditure, shipping, material receiving, where housing and inventory, and material distribution. In this project we have prepare scheme of material management in the construction industry for building project also conducting survey of industry and determine the various format for construction material management. In conclusion the wastage of material, control cost of material and time should be analyzed by using inventory management system.

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