International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7 (3.

10) (2018) 36-39

International Journal of Engineering & Technology

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Research paper

Analyzing Inventory Material Management Control Techniques

on Residential Construction Project Using SPSS
T.Subramani1*, T.Suresh Kumar2
1*
Managing Director, Priyanka Associates (Civil Engineers and Valuers), Salem, TamilNadu, India.
2
CEO, Suresh Associates( Civil Engineers and Valuers), Salem, TamilNadu, India.
*
Corresponding author: E-mail: tsmcivil2007@gmail.com

Abstract

Building Construction materials adopted 50% of cost from the total estimation of the project. Estimated Cost and planned schedule can
be achieved by effective material management. The project team must be understood the goals and efficient material management
techniques for successful project execution. A well planned material management possible by on time delivery and equipment to the job
site and improved workforce planning increased labor productivity, planned schedules and minimum cost. Questionnaire were prepared
for data analysis based on Likert’s scale 25 respondents were answered the questionnaire. Collected data analyzed using SPSS.To reveal
the respondents responses for enhance the analysis results used there are Frequency analysis, Factor analysis, and reliability analysis.
Results will be obtained and also recommendations will be suggested.

Keywords: Analyzing, Inventory, Control Techniques, Project and SPSS.

1. Introduction

1.1. Overview of Material Management

Materials management is a essential factor of the construction

projects. Construction companies should understand the
importance of material management techniques and efficiency of
project execution. Many of the construction projects were
affected by delays and cost overrun. A good material
management decided by such as on time delivery of materials, pre
planned working techniques, Proper scheduling and budgeted
cost construction. It is critical for the contractor to remember that
great distinction within the date that the material turned into
requested or date when the acquisition order become made, and
the time, at which the material could be brought, as a
consequence fabric control is a key of project management.
“Material management is described as the procedure to offer
right fabric at proper region at proper time in proper quantity
with a purpose to limit the price of assignment”. Material
Fig.1: Methodology
management is worried with the planning, identity, procuring,
storage, receiving and distribution of material.
3. Software Used
2. Methodology
3.1. SPSS
Fig.2 shows the methodology adopted in this study.
SPSS is software program for editing and studying all sorts of
statistics. Those statistics may additionally come from basically
any source: medical studies, a patron statistics base, maybe the
server log documents of a site. SPSS can open all record codecs
which are usually used for based data which includes,
Spread sheets from MS Excel or Open office.
• Plain text documents (.txt or .csv).
• Relational (sq.) databases.
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• Stata and SAS. 5. Inventory Control

4. Questionnaire Inventory control or manipulate refers back to the management of
idle resources that have future monetary cost. Rather, inventory
1. Do you support the use of lean inventory system in your may be defined as usable but idle assets that have monetary cost.
company? inventory control is one critical issue of the full control of an
 Yes corporation.
 No
2. Is inventory management automated in your company? 6. SPSS Analysis Results
 Yes
 No 6.1. Frequency Analysis
3. Is procurement staff well trained on inventory management?
 Yes Fig.2 shows the inputs for frequency analysis.
 No
4. Do you have procure0ment performance measurement
procedure in your company?
 Yes
 No
5. Does your company follow any analysis for inventory
management?
 Yes
 No
6. If it follows then it is superior to conventional method of
procurement.
 Yes
 No
7. Does your company procure stock when a project is
undertaken?
 Yes
 No
8. Does your company follow safety procedure to store the stock?
 Yes Fig.2: Inputs for frequency analysis
 No
9. How many days before the project start stocks are mobilized? 6.2. Lean Inventory System
 5Days
 10Days Table 1 shows the results for lean inventory system.
 15Days
 1Month Table 1: Results for Lean inventory system
10. Does your company follow EOQ (Economic Order Quantity)
analysis?
 Yes
 No
11. Which type of material management technique used in your
company?
 JIT
 ABC analysis
 Drop shipping
 Cross-docking

12. Does your company follow ABC analysis?

 Yes
 No

13. How much waste is generated for a medium project (MT)?

 0.1
 0.1– 0.5
 0.5–1
 >1
14. Is there is a separate division for inventory management in Fig.3 shows the graph of various inventory related questionnaires.
your company?
 Yes
 No

Fig.3: Graph of various inventory related Questionnaires

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6.2.1. Frequently Used Material Management Technique Fig.7 shows the inputs for factor analysis.

Table 2 shows the frequently used material management

techniques.

Table 2: Analysis results for material management technique

Fig.4 shows the pie chart of material management techniques. Fig.7: Inputs for factor analysis

Fig.8 shows the inputs for factor analysis.

Fig.4: Pie chart for material management technique

6.2.2. Major Problem of Material Takeoff

Table 3 shows the analysis results for material takeoff. Fig.8: Inputs for factor analysis

Table 3: Analysis results for material takeoff Table 4 shows the correlation matrix.

Table 4: Correlation Matrix

Fig.5 shows the pie chart for material takeoff.

Table 5 shows the total variance explained.

Table 5: Total variance explained

Fig.5: Pie chart shows material takeoff

Table 6 shows the component matrix.
6.3. Factor Analysis Table 6: Component matrix

The important thing concept of element analysis is that more than

one discovered variables have comparable styles of responses
because they're all associated with a latent (i.e. no longer
immediately measured) variable. Any issue with an eigen value
≥1 explains greater variance than a single observed variable.
Fig.6 shows the inputs for component evaluation.

6.4. Reliability Analysis

The evaluation on reliability is referred to as reliability analysis.

Reliability evaluation is determined through obtaining the
percentage of systematic variant in a scale, which may be finished
Fig.6: Inputs for factor analysis through figuring out the association among the ratings acquired
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from distinctive administrations of the dimensions. accordingly, if
the affiliation in reliability evaluation is high, the size yields
regular outcomes and is consequently reliable. Table 7 shows the
reliability analysis.
Table 7: Reliability analysis
Table 8 shows the inter-item correlation matrix.
Table 8: Inter-Item correlation matrix
7. Results & Discussions
The attitude of owners, consultants, and contractors were found
by using a questionnaire-based survey towards factors affecting
the performance of construction projects. Based on respondent’s
response, frequently used material management technique is JIT
analysis 60.0 % positive most of the contractors are accepted JIT
analysis gives better result compared to other techniques. From
above results major factor affecting material take off is lack of
communication - 66.7 %.Project undertaken per year (Standard
deviation = 1.18, mean = 3.13), major difficulties when handling
material on-site (Standard deviation = 0.45, mean = 1.26).
8. Conclusion
From this investigation, material quality plays an important role.
Enhance it’s based on cost, time, and quality performance.
Remedies found for above stated problems regarding material
management through implementing inventory management such
as inventory list & purchase list, material usage calculation,
safety storage. This is due to the fact bad coping with of
production substances influences the overall performance of
creation tasks in terms of time, budget (cost), pleasant and
productiveness. The total cost of material can also be 50 percent
of overall value; in order that it is critical for contractor to
consider that timely availability of material in project site.
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