Abstract

Prefabricated house-building companies, as suppliers or supply chains, which use manufacturing as a business approach towards industrialization, struggle to implement principles and optimal practices driven from well-established and validated theories in operational research. Supply chain management has a mature body of knowledge that has been widely adopted by research on offsite construction to improve its performance at an organisational level. However, there is no comprehensive review available in the literature for supply chain management theory within prefabricated house building research from the perspective of suppliers. In this study, a systematic review was conducted on the available literature on supply chain management within prefabricated house-building research. Initially, qualitative analysis was performed to identify the key themes. Later, quantitative analyses were applied to validate the overlapping themes and keywords. Further, key trends related to focus, methods and theories or frameworks were reported. The findings were discussed in the context of recent developments in all principal component bodies of supply chain management for future work. This study also provides a brief guide for potential future review studies to explore interdisciplinary intervention within the offsite stream.

Highlights

  • The house-building industry relies on innovations derived from modern methods of construction such as prefabrication construction or offsite construction [1] for increased efficiency, decreased costs, and improved sustainability [2,3]

  • The research institutes have either strong industry linkage or involvement in industry projects where there is a provision for publications, which may increase the frequency of the articles

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Introduction

The house-building industry relies on innovations derived from modern methods of construction such as prefabrication (or prefab) construction or offsite construction [1] for increased efficiency, decreased costs, and improved sustainability [2,3]. The fragmented nature and myopic control of supply chains (SCs) hinder the diffusion of prefabrication technology in the house-building industry as actors are unable to solve associated problems [4]. The adoption of prefabrication is substantially an industry initiative, defined as a supply-driven nature, which demands an adequate solution for upstream SC integration problems [6] by re-engineering organisational supply chains [7] to gain competitiveness [8]. The dynamics of PHB companies are complex because of the inherent diversity

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