Supply Chain and Procurement Digitalization in Construction: Relational Impacts on Productivity and Sustainability
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 5314
Special Issue Editors
Interests: construction and real estate finance; infrastructure procurement automation; engineering ethics; quantity surveying digitization; urban infrastructure economics, policy, and governance
Interests: supply chain resilience; off-site/modular construction; construction digitalization; machine learning (NLP)
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Interests: climate-smart infrastructure; public–private partnership (PPP); procurement; carbon management and green building technologies in construction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the advent and advancement of electronic information systems and the digitalization of processes across different industries, the supply chain and procurement (SCP) processes of both public and private sectors across the globe have seen a massive digital transformation over recent decades. However, it must be acknowledged that every innovation or technology advancement comes with inherent risks, threats, weaknesses, and barriers to its effective adoption and application.
Typical applications of current digital tools or technologies, including blockchain, smart contracts, internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, and other sophisticated self-learning applications, are yet to be examined deeply, particularly within the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) domain. The need to explore and expand the knowledge domain of SCP digitalization in the AEC sector is crucial for the development, adoption, and application of the mentioned tools in enhancing and expediting productivity and sustainability (in terms of economic growth, social development, and environmental protection) within the domain. Moreover, other than examining and measuring the development, adoption, application, and impact of these digital tools on productivity, sustainability, and other vital constructs, including circular economy, there is also the need to create a holistic ecosystem for managing data flow and processes throughout the SCP lifecycle in AEC projects, particularly for industrialized construction and other modular construction units. Similar examinations are also encouraged for traditional projects.
This Special Issue (SI) calls for studies looking into the stages, processes, and activities of SCP digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation. Thus, it aims to contribute to both the theoretical position and practical application of the broader technological, socio-economic, and environmental issues and advances in SCP as well as extend the knowledge domains of digital tools and applications for SCP processes. We encourage the manuscripts to combine theoretical grounding with phenomenon-driven questions that can shape practice. Case studies are also welcomed in this Special Issue.
Potential keywords include, but are not limited to:
- Supply Chain Management;
- Procurement Lifecycle;
- Green Procurement;
- Productivity Supply-Chain Resilience;
- Digitalization, Digitization and Digital Transformation;
- Internet Of Things;
- Blockchain And Smart Contracts;
- Cloud Computing;
- Artificial Intelligence;
- Supply Chain Management;
- Supply Chain Data Management;
- Infrastructure Procurement;
- Procurement Risk Assessment;
- Supply Chain Audit;
- Tendering Algorithms.
Dr. Emmanuel Kingsford Owusu
Dr. Anushika Ekanayake Mudiyanselage
Dr. Ernest Effah Ameyaw
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- supply chain management
- procurement lifecycle
- green procurement
- productivity supply-chain resilience
- digitalization, digitization and digital transformation
- internet of things
- blockchain and smart contracts
- cloud computing
- artificial intelligence
- supply chain management
- supply chain data management
- infrastructure procurement
- procurement risk assessment
- supply chain audit
- tendering algorithms
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