Buyer-supplier relationships in industrialized building

Autor:	Louise Bildsten
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Product (business) Construction management Standardization Context (language use) Building and Construction Business Marketing Adaptation (computer science) Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Purchasing Management Information Systems Personalization Variety (cybernetics)
Zdroj:	Construction Management and Economics. 32:146-159
ISSN:	1466-433X 0144-6193
Popis:	Close collaboration is considered important; but is close collaboration for all purchases necessary to create value-in-production? In construction as well as in other industries, companies purchase a variety of items that require different amounts of attention to the relationship with suppliers. Buyer-supplier relationships are investigated in relation to how they bring value-in-production in the industrialized building sector. An adaptation of the Kraljic model is applied to the context of industrialized housebuilding in Sweden. Different relationships and different purchased items are classified with the aim of revealing patterns that may prove useful when determining purchasing strategies intended to create value-in-production. Purchasing strategies were studied through data collection at four industrialized housebuilders. Analysis of these strategies suggests that the total product offer from suppliers in terms of customization, logistics and standardization plays an important role in the choice of su...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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