Peculiarities of business processes in construction sector
Construction sector is a separate and independent area of economy which is used for putting into operation new construction facilities as well as enhancement, reconstruction and technical re-equipment of existing production and non-production facilities.
This sphere of economy has several peculiarities not depending on types of facilities which are under construction. They are:
- Variability, temporary and diverse nature of construction production and the type of final products;
- Technological interconnection of all procedures included in construction process;
- Irregularity of correlation between construction works according to their complexity and their types during a month;
- Participation of various organizations in production;
- The role of a climate and local conditions in construction;
These factors can lead to:
- Low labor productivity
- A high degree of wear of basic funds
- Imperfection of organizational management
- Significant number of contracting organizations leading to difficulties in construction works coordination
Analysis of business processes in companies of construction sector
The structure of interior business processes of a company is defined by the most important kinds of its functioning in order to achieve aims of customers and investors. This kind of companies has a number of standard business processes with a quite unified scheme of their realization. A typical business process of a company can include the following business processes:
- Pre-production
- Basic production
- Auxiliary production
- Inventory and logistics management
- Marketing
- Sales and maintenance service
- Finances
- Accounting
- Human resource provision
- Transportation provision
- Energy provision
- Maintenance provision
- Metrological provision
- Construction
- Social provision
- General business activity
- Information provision
- Management
Business process optimization methodology
Business process optimization of integrated holding structures consists of five steps.
Business processes which need to be improved are detected according the following criteria:
- Business process importance
- Existence of problems in a business process
- Possibility and costs of business process optimization
- Cyclicality of business processes at all levels of business
Construction sector is one of the most important sectors of national economy. The methodology of business process optimization described above has a positive effect on the development of key structures of the sector.