SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION USING MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND SIMULATION TECHNIQUES

Supply Chain Management has been a mainstay in the manufacturing sector for decades and has helped in streamlining of all processes involved in the lifecycle of a product, and making the manufacturing, warehousing, and logistic operations more efficient. However, research in the field of supply chains related to construction and architecture has been limited. Construction projects are constituted of several individual activities and processes, and in most cases the cross-functional communication involved in such projects is very centralized, if not limited and inefficient. Supply Chain Management integration in construction can help to eliminate many shortfalls of the current construction and architectural process paradigm. Use of supply chain management techniques such as mathematical modeling, quantification of performance metrics, and simulation, which have proved hugely successful in optimizing manufacturing supply chains, can be extended to the construction sector to increase visibility across the overall supply chain. Through this paper we discuss queuing as an analytical modeling technique to represent construction supply chains, and verify the analytical model using a simulation. We further discuss about using simulation in the form of Building Information Modeling in order to increase supply chain visibility and optimize communication across different lines in the process.

Advisor: Dr. Vittaldas Prabhu, Professor and Charles and Enid Schneider Faculty Chair in Service Enterprise Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Files

Metadata

Work Title SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION USING MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND SIMULATION TECHNIQUES
Access
Open Access
Creators
  1. Jairajsingh Chandhok
Keyword
  1. supply chain
  2. construction
  3. building information modeling
  4. queuing simulation
  5. architecture
  6. queue modeling
License In Copyright (Rights Reserved)
Work Type Research Paper
Acknowledgments
  1. Dr. Vittaldas Prabhu
  2. Dr. Yuqing Hu
  3. Karen Pedrazzi
Publication Date 2021
Deposited March 22, 2021

Versions

Analytics

Collections

This resource is currently not in any collection.

Work History

Version 1
published

  • Created
  • Updated Acknowledgments Show Changes
    Acknowledgments
    • Dr. Vittaldas Prabhu, Dr. Yuqing Hu, Karen Pedrazzi
  • Added Creator Jairajsingh Chandhok
  • Added Jairajsingh Chandhok_Masters Paper.pdf
  • Updated License Show Changes
    License
    • https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
  • Published
  • Updated
  • Updated