Effective Materials Management in Construction Projects
While materials count for a considerable amount of construction costs, the way materials are managed seems to be improvised rather than approached methodically. In the construction industry, one of the common challenges people face is issues with their inventory and onsite material management. Management of materials have over the years been a great problem to most firms in the construction industry. In construction project operations, there is always a tendency of mismanagement of materials by construction firms. As the size of the contract increases, so does the scale of activities on materials management. Changing procedures, installing and using new information technology and elevating managerial practices to the point where decision models are in everyday use have been known to be stressful to organizations that pursue such improvements. In many cases, the inability of the organization to embrace such changes dooms the improvement initiatives.
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Published in: NBM&CW July 2019
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