Successful Construction Supply Chain Management: Concepts and Case Studies

Provides a unique overview of supply chain management (SCM) concepts, illustrating how the methodology can help enhance construction industry project success

Successful Construction Supply Chain Management: Concepts and Case Studies provides a unique appraisal of supply chain management (SCM) concepts brought together with lessons from industry and analysis gathered from extensive research on how supply chains are managed in the 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 the experienced researcher and the industry practitioner a thorough grounding in its principles, as well as an illustration of SCM as a methodology for enhancing construction industry project success.

The book incorporates chapters dealing with Building Information Modelling, sustainability, the 'Demand Chain' in projects, the link between self-organizing networks and supply chains, decision-making, 'Lean', and mega-projects. Other chapters cover risk transfer and allocation, behaviors, innovation, trust, supply chain design, alliances, and knowledge transfer.

The book:

• Includes new chapters dealing with key construction industry topics such as BIM, sustainability, the 'Demand Chain' in projects, 'Lean', mega-projects, and more
• Illustrates how SCM methodologies can be used to enhance construction industry project success
• Includes contributions from academics and practitioners from Network Rail, mainstream construction, and consultancy

Successful Construction Supply Chain Management: Concepts and Case Studies is an ideal book for postgraduate students at MSc and PhD level studying the topic and for all construction management practitioners.

STEPHEN PRYKE, FRICS, MSc, PhD, PGCertEd, DipS, MCMI, is Professor of Supply Chain and Project Networks, and Course Director of the MSc Project and Enterprise Management at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London. He is also Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL and Director of the Centre for Organisational Network Analysis (CONA@UCL). Stephen worked closely with the leading exponents of supply chain management worldwide before joining UCL full time. He previously provided project management training and consultancy to a number of major European companies and has been a consultant with Durland Consulting in Chicago. His main research interests involve supply chain management and the application of social network analysis in the study of construction project networks.