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Innovationsacceptans inom Byggbranschen

Ahl, Christoffer and Warselius, Georg (2018) MIOM05
Production Management
Abstract
The rapid development of digitization in recent years has meant enormous opportunities for improvement and efficiency of various activities within a company. Furthermore, the digital era has meant that digital tools are becoming more common for additional sectors and businesses. Yet, the construction industry seems to lack in this development. There is a general consensus that the construction industry is conservative and weak of change.
The flow of supplies to a construction site is usually categorized as either package or party deliveries. Where party deliveries need to be unloaded mechanically, while package delivery can be handed over by a dispatcher. Since party deliveries often have a relatively high economic value and a decisive... (More)
The rapid development of digitization in recent years has meant enormous opportunities for improvement and efficiency of various activities within a company. Furthermore, the digital era has meant that digital tools are becoming more common for additional sectors and businesses. Yet, the construction industry seems to lack in this development. There is a general consensus that the construction industry is conservative and weak of change.
The flow of supplies to a construction site is usually categorized as either package or party deliveries. Where party deliveries need to be unloaded mechanically, while package delivery can be handed over by a dispatcher. Since party deliveries often have a relatively high economic value and a decisive and time-consuming unloading process, clear standardized routines have been established to streamline the receipt of these deliveries. However, this is not the case for package deliveries, although there are clear indications that they account for a significantly higher frequency compared to party deliveries. The purpose of this study is to investigate the preconditions for a standardized package delivery receipt by mapping the improvement potential within this type of delivery, as well as the terms and incentives for digitizing activities within this type of activities.
With the aim of solving the project's objectives, an exploratory and qualitative approach has been used. The study combines a literature study, with primary data in the form of qualitative interviews. These interviews were both unstructured and semi-structured. In order to simplify the issue and put it into context, an investigation effort focused on a case study was used, together with the start-up company Qlocx.
This study claims that the pursuit of standardized package delivery routines is justified. Because today's activities result in a loss of efficiency in the white collars main work, and that package deliveries account for more than 80% of all deliveries to construction sites.
This results in continual loss of efficiency in the overall productivity during the whole lifespan for a construction project. Through discussions linked to Qlocx digital package delivery service, it is recognized that the conditions for a digital reception service are positive, depending on the positions that will be accessed by this service. White collars generally have a more optimistic attitude towards technology than blue collars and the insufficient overview of the blue collar´s material handling means that, at present, a standardized reception solution will only include the white collars, and especially the supervisors, at construction sites. (Less)
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author
Ahl, Christoffer and Warselius, Georg
supervisor
organization
course
MIOM05
year
type
M1 - University Diploma
subject
keywords
package deliveries, logistics, handling of materials, building industry, digitization, start-up
other publication id
18/5610
language
Swedish
id
8968402
date added to LUP
2019-01-28 11:45:33
date last changed
2019-01-28 11:45:33
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  abstract     = {{The rapid development of digitization in recent years has meant enormous opportunities for improvement and efficiency of various activities within a company. Furthermore, the digital era has meant that digital tools are becoming more common for additional sectors and businesses. Yet, the construction industry seems to lack in this development. There is a general consensus that the construction industry is conservative and weak of change.
The flow of supplies to a construction site is usually categorized as either package or party deliveries. Where party deliveries need to be unloaded mechanically, while package delivery can be handed over by a dispatcher. Since party deliveries often have a relatively high economic value and a decisive and time-consuming unloading process, clear standardized routines have been established to streamline the receipt of these deliveries. However, this is not the case for package deliveries, although there are clear indications that they account for a significantly higher frequency compared to party deliveries. The purpose of this study is to investigate the preconditions for a standardized package delivery receipt by mapping the improvement potential within this type of delivery, as well as the terms and incentives for digitizing activities within this type of activities.
With the aim of solving the project's objectives, an exploratory and qualitative approach has been used. The study combines a literature study, with primary data in the form of qualitative interviews. These interviews were both unstructured and semi-structured. In order to simplify the issue and put it into context, an investigation effort focused on a case study was used, together with the start-up company Qlocx.
This study claims that the pursuit of standardized package delivery routines is justified. Because today's activities result in a loss of efficiency in the white collars main work, and that package deliveries account for more than 80% of all deliveries to construction sites.
This results in continual loss of efficiency in the overall productivity during the whole lifespan for a construction project. Through discussions linked to Qlocx digital package delivery service, it is recognized that the conditions for a digital reception service are positive, depending on the positions that will be accessed by this service. White collars generally have a more optimistic attitude towards technology than blue collars and the insufficient overview of the blue collar´s material handling means that, at present, a standardized reception solution will only include the white collars, and especially the supervisors, at construction sites.}},
  author       = {{Ahl, Christoffer and Warselius, Georg}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Innovationsacceptans inom Byggbranschen}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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