Delivering Data Logistics
Introduction
Creating a technical platform to support collaboration throughout construction projects.
In 1998 Sir John Egan set out to examine the way the industry works and compared it with other sectors, such as automotive and retail. The experience of other industries showed the benefits of the drive for constant improvement in supply chain management. The automotive industry had by the late 1990's reduced the time to market a new model, from design freeze to launch, from 40 months to 15 months and UK retailers made huge progress in streamlining their distribution systems, reducing order lead times from two weeks to two days and cutting inventories from five to 2.5 weeks.
The task force saw the construction industry dealing with the project process in a series of sequential and separate operations and identified that a strategic priority for improving construction performance was to move towards an integrated process. The process could be sub divided into four complementary and interlocked elements: product development, project implementation, partnering the supply chain, and the production of components.
Asite has adopted the principles of the Rethinking Construction report - and has delivered the technical platform to support collaboration throughout construction projects and in supply chain procurement processes.
Construction collaboration technology creates a platform at the heart of the supply chain. Users access it via the internet, share documents and interact in real time from wherever they are. Construction collaboration tools are configured to meet the industry's specific needs, for example users name and file documents according to industry standards. They publish documents in the collaboration platform, share them with relevant people, make or ask for comments and information pointing directly to a specific part of a document using mark-up. They create an audit trail providing decision makers with clear visibility of the project.
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