As Vietnam economy grows, the telecommunication industry
also has develop to satisfy the demands for using the internet, voice, fax,
data, multimedia, and entertainment of individual, community, and company etc. One
of the important things in the telecommunication industry is infrastructure which
has difficulty in erection for self support steel towers. Several problems have
to consider. However, we need to analyze carefully the real cases for erecting the
self support steel towers for telecom based on conditions in Vietnam which two
main problems are:
1. Difficult geographical and topography conditions to
access the construction sites to deliver materials.
2. Difficulties of fabricating the steel on site
These problems are different for
each project because every project has particular geography and topography. The
problems not only happen for purchasing and managing materials but also
transporting materials to site. Nguyen Huu Phuc made a research to find out an effective
project materials management for erecting self support steel towers for telecom
based on real conditions in Vietnam.
Conclusions
The project material management is a major function in
construction to assure quality, cost and schedule of project. The contractors
can reduce project cost and can make more profit from project if he is good in
project material management.
An effective material management is not only good in techniques
for planning, monitoring and control of processes, materials and products at
the site, office and factory but also is
good function to avoid the most frequently occurring problem and the
most frequently occurring place or step of problems.
The planning is the first step to do the project material
management. It is a blueprint to set up sound basis for project life cycle. Due
to data of planning, the activities for processes behind the planning were
determined. Thus, planning is major figures to get the success of project. If
the actual work does not meet the requirement of the planning for schedule or
budget, the project will fail.
The appropriate organization in construction for each
project and for the success depends on personal skills of members and their geographical
location in the department or on the site. The skills of members in
organization are very important to do their tasks.
One more thing, the purchasing in the project must connect
between planning for requirement and ordering of demand for material and
equipment on the site. The purchasing ensures that materials and equipment are
supplied with competitive price, on work schedule and has good quality. In
purchasing, the relationship with suppliers and performance of suppliers are
keys to have the effective material management.
For the transportation, the company can save the cost throughout
the negotiated agreements or special agreement such as special scope of
transportation work or special duty of transporters or special for handling and
packaging. In addition, the survey for conditions of transportation also has
the main role to eliminate the risk in the traffic.
The activities for monitoring and controlling of estimation,
ordering, checking of the performance and surplus on the site are supported by
requirement planning and actual work on the site. It affects project
productivity and other factors in the project. Solving procedures for improving
the site monitoring and controlling are requirements that the project manager
must be consider.
According to the contract, the quality is always the most
important provision. It involves all material management cycle and affects all
project phase. Accordingly, quality assurance and control related with all
responsible of contractor, suppliers and owner.
Recommendations
In order to improve actions and processes for project
management in the future, from this study, some proposals are given to correct activities
and reduce cost for materials in construction such as:
1. A plan for short interval planning, monthly planning and
project planning should be written down and communicated to the related people.
In planning for material management, the material that it has the high value,
when comparison with project cost, must be cared first. The information for
planning must be detailed and must comply with the scope. Besides, historical
data and job review should be collected to help us to learn from past successes
and failure. It is a tool to plan with accurate data to implement the work on
site.
2. Top leader must support the organization for project
material management and have the members with appropriate skill based on the
scope of work. The individual must know his responsibility and his role in the
organization.
3. The evaluated suppliers must be checked carefully not
only with their history but also their performance in the present. The price,
quantity, quality, delivery time, the rights and penalties must be defined
clearly in the contract with suppliers.
4. The materials for the project must be tested to meet the
standard on the sources before using on the site. When the site manager
receives these materials, they must check again to ensure the quality of
material that they use for work. In addition, the procedure work must be
inspected and review to ensure the quality of products.
5. The communication for the organization and other parties
must set up with appropriate ways to connect all related people. With good
communication processes, the contacts of related people will be come easily to
avoid the refusing actions.
6. For further study, the study should research deeply on material
cost variance and behaviors of workers when they use the materials on the site
to get more effective material management.
Abstract
The reported project relate materials management in
construction and applications for erecting of steel towers based on real
conditions of Viet Nam to identify an effective process of the project
materials management for erecting steel towers in Viet Nam.
With using qualitative approach, the report explains more
detail about project materials management when using the single case study to
maintain the real conditions of materials management in the project to analyse
the situations to find the problems and solution for it.
In this report, the documents will summarize the knowledge
for the project materials management in project materials planning, in project
materials logistic management, in supplier management, in project materials
monitoring and controlling and focus on some problems in erecting of steel
towers in Viet Nam.
Based on the knowledge for the project materials management
and the case study, what are the advantages for the project materials
management and the disadvantages are faced in erecting the steel towers in Viet
Nam. For example: location, scope, size, transportation....
Besides, the analyses also provide some figures to prove the
knowledge for the materials management in a logical and discuss about some
effective materials management to find the conclusions. And then, the
recommendations are established for the effective process in the future.
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