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A Material Management in Construction Project

Using Inventory Management System
Ashika M1 | Monisha V1

1Department of Civil Engineering, Arunchala College of Engineering for Women, Manavilai, Vellichanthai, Nagercoil,
Kanyakumari India.

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Ashika M and Monisha V, “A Material Management in Construction Project Using Inventory Management System”,
International Journal for Modern Trends in Science and Technology, Vol. 06, Issue 05, May 2020, pp.:32-40;
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Received on 24-March-2020, Revised on 20-April-2020, Accepted on 25-April-2020, Published on 29-April-2020.

ABSTRACT
Material management is a critical component of the construction industry. The goal of materials
management is to insure that construction materials are available at their point of use when needed. A proper
implemented material management program can achieve the timely flow of materials and equipment to the
jobsite, and thus facilitate improved work face planning, increased labour productivity, scheduling and
minimize the cost. Material management is an important function in order to improve productivity in
construction project. It is defind materials management function which take off, vendor evaluation and
selection , purchasing, expenditure, shipping, material receiving, where housing and inventory, and material
distribution. In this project we have prepare scheme of material management in the construction industry for
building project also conducting survey of industry and determine the various format for construction
material management. In conclusion the wastage of material, control cost of material and time should be
analyzed by using inventory management system.

KEYWORDS: inventor, material distribution, take off, quality of material

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I. INTRODUCTION business that adds value directly to the product

Material management is term to can‟t itself.
controlling the kind amount location movement
and timing of various commodities used in II. MANAGEMENT OF MATERIAL RESOURCES
production by industrial enterprises. Material Materials management is concerned with the
management is the planning, controlling directing management of material resources. It considers the
and coordinating those who activities which are cost we incur on materials and seeks to reduce this
concerned with materials and inventory cost. Traditionally, we think of the cost of materials
requirements, from the point of their introduction in terms of the price we pay to acquire the
into the manufacturing process. It begin with the materials, that is, their basic cost. This is what we
determination of materials quality and ends with see in the statements of a company's annual
its issuance to production to meet customer „s accounts. This cost, by itself, is enormously high,
demand as per schedule and at the lowest cost as materials account for 50 to 60 per cent of the net
Material management is the basic function of the price of a product. The materials purchase function

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is particularly important in the present scenario VI. PROCESS OF MATERIAL MANAGEMENT

because most of the industries of the engineering
type such as automobile industry Purchase 90 to
95 per cent of items through vendors and fabricate
5 to 10 per cent in house. These 5-10 per cent
items represent the core competency of the
industry.

III. EFFICIENT MATERIAL PLANNING

฀ Buying or purchasing
฀ Procuring and receiving
฀ Storing and inventory control supply and
distribution of materials
฀ Quality assurance
฀ Secondary objectives are classified as given
below
฀ Efficient production scheduling
฀ To take or buy decisions

IV. BASIC COMPONENTS OF MATERIAL MANAGEMENT

 There are four basic components of material
management:
 Value analysis
 Purchasing
 Material Handling
 Store Keeping
 Recycling/Disposal

V. INVENTORY CONTROL
Inventory control is the supervision of supply, VII. LITRATURE REVIEW
storage and accessibility of items in order to ensure
Nigeria, Olatunjiaiyetan, John small wood; “
an adequate supply without excessive over supply.
improving materials management effectiveness”
Goods or the materials are essential element of any
This research provides a literature review in the
industry, private enterprise or the government
field of uncertainty dampening methods for
deportment..
manufacturing systems, and proposes a new model
5.1Types Of Inventories
to improve materials management effectiveness in
 Raw material inventory
materials requirements planning environments.
 Bought out parts inventories
The literature review gives rise to a classification
 WIP inventories framework of the models along nine structural
 Finished goods inventories dimensions that refer to the safety buffer
 Maintenance , repair, & operating store treatment, the environmental characteristics and
 Tools inventories the type of approach. On the basis of the
classification framework, the proposed model
5.2 Inventory Control Techniques
provides guidelines for approaching the problem of
1. ABC analysis
dimensioning, positioning and managing safety
2. S Curves
stocks against demand uncertainty. The
3. Safety stock
effectiveness of the proposed model has been tested
4. EOQ analysis
by comparing it to the traditional approach,
through a computer‐ based simulation.
Khyomesh v. Patel (PG student) prof. Chetna m.
Vyas (PhD. cont.) “construction materials
management on project sites “This paper is written

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to fill a void created by the absence of proper and testing of the system was carried out to
materials management on construction sites. To examine the functionality and working
managing a productive and cost efficient site appropriately. The proposed system is intended to
efficient material management is very essential. promote the employment of RFID for automatic
Research has shown that construction materials materials tracking with integration of resource
and equipment may constitute more than 70% of modelling (Microsoft Office Project) in the project
the total cost for a typical construction project. management system in order to establish which of
Therefore the proper management of this single the tagged components are required resources for
largest component can improve the productivity certain project tasks. In conclusion, the system
and cost efficiency of a project and help ensure its provides an automatic and easy tracking method
timely completion. One of the major problems in for managing materials during materials delivery
delaying construction projects is poor materials and inventory management processes in
and equipment management. This paper describes construction projects.
the main results of survey carried out in B. Madhavarao k. Mahindra, “a critical analysis
Ahmadabad that investigated the material of material management techniques in
management of 3 well known builders of construction project” In this report construction
Ahmedabad. sector, material management plays major role for
Nariah kasim; “Developing materials effective completion of the project. The cost of
management”this paper is forecast that in the near project increases when the planning, material
future there may be a move towards the conscious identification system is poor. Shortage and
development of materials management within deficiency in storage of material will cause losses in
manufacturing industry. This development will be labor productivity. To maintain the effective
based upon management recognition of the management, to achieve the timely supply of
significance of materials management, combined materials and equipment and to reduce the cost of
with extensive pressure upon the costs and projects, a wellplanned material management
efficiency in the functions which make up the program is required. This improves planning,
materials management systems. There will be a higher labor productivity, proper schedules and
number of urgent motivating factors, ensuring that lower project costs. This paper explains about the
solutions are found to overcome any difficulties, techniques for material management for
and that change takes place to introduce the construction project by using SCurve, ABC
materials management concept. The final outcome Analysis for clear understanding the management
is forecast to be an integration of the materials of four important construction materials. By
management function into one group; with the implementing these techniques, we have found an
explicit task of, maintaining a constant flow of optimized way to reduce the cost of the project.
product, reducing costs where feasible, and Using S-curve technique, the variation in planned
improving relationships with both suppliers and cost and actual cost is assessed. Quantity of
other functions within the company. materials procured for the project should be
Narimah kasim “intelligent materials tracking determined by the using A-B-C analysis.
system for con struction projects management” Ss. Asadi, “ improving materials management on
This paper An essential factor adversely affecting Construction projects”this report is An essential
the performance of construction projects is the factor adversely affecting the performance of
improper handling of materials during site construction projects is the improper handling of
activities. In addition, paper-based reports are materials during site activities. Materials
mostly used to record and exchange information management is made problematic by materials
related to the material components within the shortages, delays in supply, price fluctuations,
supply chain, which is problematic and inefficient. damage and wastage, and lack of storage space.
Findings from a literature review and surveys The results were used to develop a real-time
showed that there is a lack of positive examples of framework for integrating RFID-based materials
such tools having been used effectively. Therefore, tracking and resource modelling. It is concluded
this research focused on the development of a that the prototype system developed can improve
materials tracking system that integrates materials management on construction projects.
RFID-based materials management with resources And to improve the real-time management of
modelling to improve on-site materials tracking. materials on sites, and hence improve project
Rapid prototyping was used to develop the system performance.

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Narimah kasim1, “ICT implementation for VIII. METHODOLOGY

materials management in construction projects:
case studies “this paper is Construction materials
usually constitute a major portion of the total cost
in a building construction project. Materials
management is made problematic by materials
shortages, delays in supply, price fluctuations,
damage and wastage, and lack of storage space.
Despite the potential benefit of ICT, convincing
construction organisations to embrace its use and
implementation has proved a difficult task.
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet and handheld devices
are found to be the common ICT tools adopted in
the materials management processes finally, this
paper concludes the finding from interviews
towards the ICT implementation of materials
management in the construction projects.
Mr.m.kalilurrahman1, mr.s.s.janagan,
“construction waste minimization and reuse
management “This paper is Construction industry
has been developing rapidly around the world. The
development has led to serious problem in IX. DATA COLLECTION
generation of construction wastes in many
developing countries and expectation of the
natural resources to large extend. The construction
wastes clustered into physical and non-physical
waste and it has greater impact to environment,
economy and social of each country. Before it can
be managed well, it is important to understand the
root cause of the generation. This paper identifies
and detects factors contributed to the generation of
construction waste. Mapping technique was OBSERVATION
applied for identification works and interview was Inventory management system has observed by
conducted to detect the physical and non-physical giving visit to the store department. Bin card.
waste. These factors were grouped into seven Coding of inventory, inward and outward of
categories: Design, Handling, Worker, inventory, ABC technique all things related to
Management, Site condition, Procurement and inventory management has been observed.
External factor. The significant factors of each Example of inentory report
category of waste were determined. The findings
will help construction players to avoid, reduce and
recycling the physical and non-physical wastes.
Furthermore, the paper has put forward some
recommendations for better improvements in
construction

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floor
No of Cement Sand Aggregate Bricks
Fifth floor 312483 195.3 312 1500 468000
floor quantity quantity quantity
in bags in tons tons total 1865905 1166.18 1863 9000 2794500

Ground 4463 303 388 7500 Aggregate quantity and cost

floor
No . Of Quantity Cum Tons rate amount
First 4595 312 399 8000 floor kgs
floor
Ground 388289 268 388 550 213400
Second 4595 312 399 8000
floor
floor

Third 4595 312 399 8000 First 399794 276 399 550 219450
floor floor

Fourth 4595 312 399 8000

floor Second 399794 276 399 550 219450
floor
Fifth 4595 312 399 8000
floor
Third 399794 276 399 550 219450
floor

total 32033 2175 2782 47500

Fourth 399794 276 399 550 219450
floor

X. CALCULATE THE COST AND QUALITY OF Fifth 399794 276 399 550 219450
MATERIAL floor
cement quantity and cost
No of cum Quantity Bags Rate Amount total 2787053 1924 2782 1530100
floors in kgs

Ground 405 223155 4463 320 1428160 Bricks quantity and cost
floor

No . Of Cum In 1 Tons rate amount

First 417 229767 4595 320 1470400
floor cum
floor

Second 417 229767 4595 320 1470400 Ground 15 500 7500 7 52500
floor floor

Third 417 229767 4595 320 1470400

First 16 500 8000 7 56000
floor
floor
Fourth 417 229767 4595 320 1470400
floor Second 16 500 8000 7 56000
floor
Fifth 417 229767 4595 320 1470400
floor
Third 16 500 8000 7 56000
Sand quantity and cost floor
No of Quantity Cum Tons rate amount
floor kgs Fourth 16 500 8000 7 56000
floor
Ground 303490 189.68 303 1500 454500
floor Fifth 16 500 8000 7 56000
floor
First floor 312483 195.3 312 1500 468000

Second 312483 195.3 312 1500 468000 total 111 55500 388500
floor

Third 312483 195.3 312 1500 468000

floor

Fourth 312483 195.3 312 1500 468000

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Cost and quality unneeded order costs. if a firm places to few order,
S. No Materials Cost Unit Quant it must maintain large stocks of goods and will
ity have excessive carrying cost
a) The formula is written as:
𝑄 = 2*CO*S
1. Cement 10250560 Bags 32033
CU*I

2. Sand 3262500 Tons 2175 Q= the EOQ order quantity.

D=annual order of the product in. This is the Total
quantity of the Material procured by the company.
3. Aggregate 1530100 Tons 2782 S= product order cost. The flat fee charged for
production of order and is self-sufficient of Q. This
is obtained by calculations done.
4. Brick 388500 No. Of 55500 H= Holding is portion of product cost, considering
5% of the per unit Rate.( This Rate is considered
low comparatively, Since the materials is procured
Total cost 15431660
for various projects and precast yard having a
exclusively excess storage area)
S Curve analysis
ABC analysis S curve analysis is an important project
Material quantity in percentage=( each materials management tool. This analysis is carried for
cost/total cost of materials )*100 comparison between planned and actual for
Total four material cost = 15431660.00/- material items. S-curve provides at view of project
Percentage of cement =(10250560/15431660)*100 performance in terms of cost and time. Analysis of
=66.42% S-curve permits project management team to essay
Percentage of sand =(3262500/15431660)*100 identify the project growth, slippage, and potential
=21.14% problems that could adversely impact the project if
Percentage of aggregate=(1530100/15431660)*100 no corrective action is taken.
=9.91% S-curve analysis cost variance is calculated as
Percentage of brick =(388500/15431660)*100 difference between budget costs for work
=2.51% performed (BCWP)and actual cost for work
“A”class-5%to 10% of the items represent performed (ACWP).cos performance is calculated
60%to70%of money value as ratio of budget cost for work performed to actual
“B”Class-15%to 20%of the item represent 15%to cost for work performed.
20%of money value
“C”Class-60%to 70%of the item represent 5%to XI. CALCULATION
10%of money value Grade of concrete: M60
“A” Material is cement Mix proportions 1:1.36:1.74 (1=cement,
“B” Material is sand 1.36=sand, 1.76=aggregate)
“C” Material is aggregate and bricks Ground floor concrete work =405 (cum) 1CUM of
Safety stock cement = 551 (kgs) Oproxmatily 12bags of cement
The safety stock protects firm from trade Required cement for ground floor (kgs) =area of
from tradeoffs due to unanticipated demand for the ground floor *1 cum of cement =405*551 =223155
items level of inventory investments is however (kgs)
increased by the amount of safety stock. Safety Cement bags required for ground floor
levels are ascertained in inventory as apart =223155/50=4463 bags for 405 (cum)
because there is always an uncertainly involved in Cost of cement bags (50kg) =300.00/-
time lag usage rate or other factors. Total cost of the cement bags for 405(cum )=
4463*300 =1338900.00/-
ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY (EOQ):
The economic order quantity to the refers to
the order size that will result in the lowest total
ordering and carrying for an items of inventory. If a
firm place unnecessary ordering it will incur

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1480000

1460000

1440000

1420000

1400000 planned cost

actual cost
1380000
Column1
1360000

1340000

1320000
ground first floor second third floor fourth fifth floor
floor floor floor

Figure S curve for cement

480000

470000

460000

450000

440000

430000 planed cost

actual cost
420000

410000

400000

390000
ground first floor second third floor fourth floor fifth floor
floor floor

Figure S curve for sand

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60000

50000

40000

30000 planed cost

actual cost
20000 Column1

10000

0
ground first floor second third floor fourth floor fifth floor
floor floor

Figure S curve for brick

70

class C
60

50

40

30 percentage

20
class B
10

0 class A
brickd aggregate sand cement

Figure ABC analysis graph

information about the controlling the wastage of

XII. CONCLUSION material. And analysed all the required data and
In construction industries 70-80% of amount minimized cost of material by using inventory
will be used to purchasing material. Sometimes, management system.
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