Wednesday, 20 April 2011

The Abstract Of Material Management

The Abstract Of Material Management 


Material management is the system for planning and controlling all the necessary efforts to ensure that the right quality and quantity of materials and equipment are appropriately specified in a timely manner, are obtained at a reasonable cost, and are available at the point of use when needed. Logistics defined as comprise planning, organization, coordination, and control of the materials flow from the extraction of raw materials to the incorporation into the finished building. The Just-In-Time method approach represents major changes in management philosophy to reduce slack resources and responsive organizational systems in place of highly structured, formal organizational systems, and involve people at all levels in operations management and decision making. The study area is the road improvement work which is an infrastructure project located in Selangor district. The objectives of this study are to understand the current method in material management such as Just-In-Time(JIT) and logistic, to know and understand types of infrastructure project, to analyze the method that has been adopted in that those project and to identify the material management method that is used in a few infrastructure project in Selangor. Determination of material management was figure out by analyzing the interview data. The result shows the concepts that have be used in material management such are Just in Time and Logistics.

Overall Logistic concept

Overall Logistic concept

The logistics approach involves a new role for the material supplier, including early involvement in then design phase and overall responsibility for the flow of information relating to materials. Communication between materials suppliers and recipient should be such that details regarding transportation, eventual site location, order of delivery, labeling and packaging sizes should be available to all those involved. Generally, it refers to the foundation of an organization as well as large scale public systems such as roads and publics building of a country or region. Commonly, infrastructure can be derived as a large scale technology system, consisting of immovable physical facilities and delivering an essential public or private service through the storage or transportation of certain commodities.