Supplier Selection and Material Management of Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation using QGIS

Construction Engineering and Management

Materials are one of the important part of the construction industry. Materials contribute about 50-60% of the total cost of the project. As materials forms a major constitute of the total cost of the construction project, therefore adequate control over the purchasing, supplier selection, receiving, delivery, issuing storage, movement and its consumption is necessary. The most important among this is supplier selection and it leads to the success of and construction project. supplier selection includes qualitative and quantitative factors. In this project, for the purpose of supplier selection in VVCMC (Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation) region various data about the supplier like personal detail, location, quantity, quality, cost, delivery services, discount, transportation, communication facility, etc are collected. Collection of these information would be less time consuming using database. This all data is imported in QGIS (Quantum GIS), since it is very effective tool for database management. By using QGIS software, digitise map of study area and roads is done. To locate the location of suppliers as per the requirements various queries are generated. It will also help in finding shortest route between supplier location and construction site.

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