Track: Logistics

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between number of suppliers and defective communication against logistics process in construction project and how it affects its performance, specifically in Malaysia. The study was done in qualitative manner, and it was focused on four semi-structured interviews. These interview sessions were performed with construction players such as senior quantity surveyor, assistant project manager and project executive. The data collected was being analyzed by using thematic analysis approach. There are six (6) factors that have been identified that can boost up logistics performance in construction project. However, from this six factors for this paper only two factors is being highlighted. From these two factors, three (3) sub factors have been discovered from this study that would affect performance of construction logistics in Malaysia. As a result, a positive outcome of this study would anticipate to contribute to the acquisition of knowledge of current research and also would offer recommendation for future research.