Evaluation of Inventory Control in Construction Project

The main objective of the study is to analyse the inventory control practices adopted by the construction companies. Inventory control is the most prevalent in the construction industry, where a contractor, site engineers undergoes some part of the work (or) majority of tasks involved in the projects. A decline in construction quality and productivity could be attributed to the performance of contractors and site engineers and their inventory practices in the projects. This study is to provide a system for evaluating the performance of the contractors and site engineers on the different construction projects by identifying the primary elements of the performance that indicates the quality of the works and analyzing the performance parameters for developing an evaluation and rating systems, which can be used by the major contractors in the construction industry.The inventory analysis is based on the primary data. The main sources of the primary data are collected by conducting questionnaire survey. A separate questionnaire survey is conducted in low level, medium level and high-level construction companies. The collected data is analyzed using SPSS software. Reliability tests have been carried out to find the reliability of the scale used for analysis. From the data analysis suggestions are given to improve the stock management practices followed in construction companies.