AN EMPIRICAL CASE STUDY OF MATERIAL MANAGEMENT IN CONSTRUCTION OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDING BY USING VARIOUS TECHNIQUES

The average material cost is 55-60 % of total project cost. Hence, efforts should be done taken to reduce material cost. In actual practice most effort are done to reduce labour cost. Furthermore effective material management can be instrumental in cost reduction to further extent. The cost, quality & time are important objective of material management. There are various functions of material management .These are the identification with estimation of material requirement, Procurement, Inventory control, storage, disposal of surplus material and scrap. Advance material procurement or delayed both can affect cost, quality and time. So it is very important to get material at right cost, at right quality & right time. This can be achieved by using material management techniques. The A.B.C analysis, VED analysis and SDE analysis are different techniques of material management. These techniques can lead to effective material management in construction projects. A.B.C analysis is based on inventory value of material.VED analysis gives Priority to utility of material whereas SDE analysis gives availability of material in market