How do you manage Materials in construction?

Materials management is one of the important aspect in construction. This plays key part on successful execution of the project in a site.

The core activities of material management teams are :

1.Making the required materials available in the site on-time

2.Record and monitoring the usage of materials in the site

3.Report the current status of materials on the site.

4.Report the additional need of materials on the site with lead time.

There has to be a process setup by construction company to perform the above activities effectively.

Failing to setup this, will result in the following impacts:

1.Paying additional cost to get materials

2.Unavailability of materials in site to execute project

3.Delay in project execution because of material unavailability

4.Loss in the overall budget

Implementing the above will need a collaborative effort with procurement team as well , as they handle all the purchases.

SiteExpensify implements this effectively.