The Concept and Development of Supply Chain Management in the UK Construction Industry

Construction Supply Chain Management: Concepts and Case Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 23-41

  Morledge, Roy ^a   Knight, Andrew ^a   Grada, Mohieddin ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'low bid wins' strategies and undesirable outcomes; Concept and development of supply chain management in UK construction industry; Construction industry and problems in its structure; Construction industry in UK characteristics differentiating it from other industrial sectors; Construction industry project based industry; SCM strategies, adopted in manufacturing industries; SCM becoming fragmented; Supply chain council, independent non profit organisation and SCM challenges; Supply chain management (SCM); Upstream suppliers and downstream customers methods of reducing waste across entire process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889875727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320916.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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