2 LOGISTIC NETWORK FOR CONSTRUCTION SITES
Logistic management in construction industries was not considered very deeply in the past. One rason ist,
that the planning and the construction processes are located at several contractual partners. Only in the
planning of site facilities detailed logistics aspects are considered. This prevents the thinking in an overall
logistic system.
To optimize the construction site logistic globally it is essential to consider all individual in-house
supply chains and to combine them to a single global network. Elements of single supply chains become
network elements (Figure 1). This enables to analyze all influencing factors and their effects on the logistic
network configuration and the logistic organization structure (Voigtmann and Bargstädt 2008).