Software-based support to decision-making process regarding the selection of concrete suppliers

Software-based support to decision-making process regarding the selection of concrete suppliers

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An important issue that should be considered during the construction process is to organize the concrete supply for building site. However, there are several factors which have to be taken into account for the selection of a concrete supplier such as the transportation time, travel distance, traffic density, type of concrete, concrete additives and required amounts of concrete. In common practice, the effectiveness of supplier selection mainly relies on the intuition of a construction manager. The aim of this paper is to propose a software-based methodology to better support a decision-making process regarding the selection of concrete suppliers. At this point, Google Maps Directions API employing a hypertext transfer protocol requests for collecting sets of different routes was used. An application example is given at the end of the paper to demonstrate the advan-tages of proposed approach.

An important issue that should be considered during the construction process is to organize the concrete supply for building site. However, there are several factors which have to be taken into account for the selection of a concrete supplier such as the transportation time, travel distance, traffic density, type of concrete, concrete additives and required amounts of concrete. In common practice, the effectiveness of supplier selection mainly relies on the intuition of a construction manager. The aim of this paper is to propose a software-based methodology to better support a decision-making process regarding the selection of concrete suppliers. At this point, Google Maps Directions API employing a hypertext transfer protocol requests for collecting sets of different routes was used. An application example is given at the end of the paper to demonstrate the advan-tages of proposed approach.

concrete supply; transport; decision-making; hypertext transfer protocol request

concrete supply; transport; decision-making; hypertext transfer protocol request

VENKRBEC, V.; KLANŠEK, U.

2017

01.11.2016

CRC Press Balkema

London

9781315393827

Advances and Trends in Engineering Sciences and Technologies II

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667

672

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https://www.crcpress.com/Advances-and-Trends-in-Engineering-Sciences-and-Technologies-II-Proceedings/Ali-Platko/p/book/9781138032248

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