An Elementary Discussion about Construction Enterprises’ Material Cost Management

摘要：

Cost management is an important component of the construction enterprises′ project management, Effective cost management plays a significant role in promoting the enterprises′ profit space and even the core competence. In the construction projects, material cost accounts for 60%-70% of the total capital cost. Therefore, Material cost management of construction enterprises is the key to cost control of the Construction Project. The paper analyzes the present situation of material procurement and inventory management of the construction enterprises, Then problems existing in the material cost management are proposed. On the basis, two models for improving the material procurement and inventory management are introduced according to the characteristics of the enterprises′ storehouse capacity and location. They are economic order quantity model and zero inventory management model. And the above-mentioned methods have been applied into empirical study to evaluate the effectiveness which will provide for reference for the construction enterprises′ future material cost management.

关键词： material cost management economic order quantity zero inventory management

作者: MEI Wei GUO Jingjuan

作者单位: School of Economic & Management, BeijingJiaotong University, Beijing, China 100044 School of Economic & Management, Beijing, Beijing Jiaotong University, China 100044

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 International Conference on Construction & Real Estate Management(2009建设与房地产管理国际会议)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 592-595

在线出版日期: 2009-11-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）