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operation, networks, & partnerships
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1/15/2020
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Operation, networks, & partnerships 1
Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. The supply chain management...............................................................................................3
2.1 The SCM roles in Construction Industry.........................................................................3
2.2 The Challenges and Issues...............................................................................................4
3) The Supply Chain Model for Improvement/Solution............................................................6
4) The recommendation.............................................................................................................8
5) Conclusion...........................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................11

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1. Introduction
Supply chain is one of the important business activities that are responsible for profit gaining,
cost of material and processing of raw material into finished goods. Therefore, it has been
identified that in any industry, supply chain management is an important aspect to be
considered and needs to be managed effectively. Supply chain management includes various
activities like management of goods and services flow, logistics and storage of raw material,
inventory that is the work in process, and storage of finished goods. The flow of goods will
be from point of origin to the consumption point. Among all these activities, marketing
channels are one of the important aspects that play a significant role. Major advantages or
effective supply chain management system for an organisation is a reduction of cost, higher
efficiency rate, boost cooperation, raised output, better supply chain network, reduction in
delay in the process, and raised business profit level. The purpose of the report is to
understand supply chain management, its role and the greatest challenge is considering an
organisational case.
Strabag construction is an Austrian-based construction organisation that is headquartered in
Vienna. It has been identified that it is one of the largest construction companies in Europe
and in Austria. Thus, the report will discuss regarding supply chain management in
construction industry considering this organisational case and include an improving supply
chain management model for a construction company (Werikat, 2017)

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2. The supply chain management
2.1 The SCM roles in Construction Industry
Supply chain management plays an important role in the construction industry. Considering
the case of Strabag Construction Company, the company has been providing building
construction services to the clients for which various activities are to be conducted as part of
the supply chain. One of the supply chain networks include BMTL partner that is responsible
for equipment, machine, and materials logistics (strabag-international, 2019).
The research reflects that the international division of the company has been using the
services from BMTL for international construction projects. The objective of this association
is to supply and procure equipment, spot the sites and location of production with proper
technical reliability and the functioning of construction equipment, system, material and
machines. Other aspects required by the company are systematic maintenance and inspection
which need to be designed to provide support to the construction work and building materials
manufacturing in a more economical way, which needs to be aligned and compliance with
operative requirements of the significant services offered by the company. The partnership
associated with Strabag includes important services like leasing management, and investment
management, monitoring management, logistics or transportation, procurement of material
have the equipment. For instance, goods and effective equipment that are required by the
company and construction projects include cranes, wheel rollers, rollers, cars, trucks and
LCVs. Thus, the central service division of the company is responsible for maintenance and
coordination for international equipment and logistics. All the management of the activities
presented above reflects the need and role of supply chain management in the construction
business (Loosemore, 2016).
In the construction industry, management of supply chain includes various breakdowns and
product and service traceability, logistics, organisations, information and services, a
transformation of raw material is in finish goods and for the entire purpose supply chain
management as a major role. Another reason for the requirement of the supply chain
management and construction industry is that constructing buildings are becoming more
complex and need additional designing and put through specialized suppliers. Moreover,
increasing segmentation has been identified at the same time, in the industry considering the