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Synergistic supply chain for prefabricated house building in development countries

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dc.contributor.authorMostafa, S.A.A.M.
dc.contributor.authorDumrak, J.
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe majority of people living in the developing countries hardly afford a quality house. The economic and market conditions force them to live in a poor quality house. Housing providers are in a continuous challenge to provide affordable and high quality houses. A prefabricated house is a new method of building houses and has not been widely employed by house builders in developing countries. The house components are produced in offsite factories and transported to the construction site to be assembled. This allows building houses at a controlled environment to ensure high quality,less cost and minimal completion time. An attempt to use prefabricated houses for improving housing supply in developing countries is presented in this study. It targets the policy makers,developers and designers at the housing sectors in those countries. The paper proposes a synergistic supply chain to manage the prefabricated house building supply chain. The factory production of house components shows the closest analogy to manufacturing industry. Moreover, the house customer requirements on house quality, price and completion time make the design specifications difficult that leads to slow response to achieve customer demand. Therefore, the synergistic supply chain is designed to include an integration of lean and agile (leagile). Last Planner™ System is used for better coordination among stakeholders. This paper suggests two locations of decoupling point with two house building strategies. It attempts to include a framework for further research to explorethe uptake of prefabricated houses in developing countries
dc.identifier.citationInternational journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology, 2014; 5(1):100-111
dc.identifier.issn0976-6480
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.8/158605
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInternational Association for Engineering and Management Education
dc.rightsCopyright 2014 IAEME
dc.subjectprefabricated houses
dc.subjecthousing in developing countries
dc.subjectsynergistic supply chain
dc.subjectlast planner system
dc.subjectleagility
dc.subjectsupply chain management
dc.titleSynergistic supply chain for prefabricated house building in development countries
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished
ror.mmsid9915910158801831

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