Just In Iime Delivery in Construction

The construction industry is mainly project based, and renowned to be inefficient with low productivity, and often encounter difficulties with keeping a time schedule, due to delays during the construction period. Concerning the construction management, the introduction of the Just-in-time (JIT) concept can be advantageous, when managing the logistics of the building materials and workforce on the building sites. The JIT philosophy was originally developed for the manufacturing industry, where it is a method of forwarding materiel or work from one process to the next, at the moment where it is required at the succeeding process. Thus, reducing work-in-process inventory, production cycle times since less time is spend on queuing before being processed, and the reduction of flow variation resulting in continuous ongoing improvements. There is a significant difference in how JIT is implemented in the construction industry compared to the manufacturing industry. This is because construction is a different type of production, which can more closely be resembled with product development, than with manufacturing. If not taking into account the industry of ‘assembly line housing’. In general there is a far greater complexity and uncertainty in construction. JIT is a concept from the lean philosophy, and the goal of the JIT concept is to reduce, or ultimately eradicate, variations and waste. In the construction industry this waste is delays.