QUESTION BANK

UNIT- V

1. Explain the role of material management in construction management.

2. ABC company gets an order for the supply of 24000 units of its product for a year. The
supply should be instantaneous. The customer does not maintain any buffer stock, so he
will not tolerate any shortage in supply. The inventory holding cost is 10% and the set of
cost of machine, fixture etc. is Rs. 350 per order.
Find out:
a) Optimum size of production lot for minimum cost
b) How many orders will be required for this?
c) Duration of each order
d) What is cycle time?
3. What is the role of ERP in the material management?
4. A company has an order of supplying 50000 units of its product per year, the cost of the
setup is Rs. 1000/-. There are ten workers engaged with the wage rate of Rs. 15/- per day.
The daily production capacity is 2000 units. The material cost of each unit is Rs. 10/-.
The annual rate of depreciation, insurance taxes and storage cost etc. is 20% of unit cost.
The supply should be instantaneous and no shortage is permitted.
Find out:
a) The economic lot size
b) The number of runs
c) Duration of each run.
5. What is (EOQ) Economic Order Quantity? Derive the expression for EOQ.
6. Define Human resource management and describe a procedure suitable for employment
in large construction industry.
7. Write down functions of material management and explain them
8. Write short note on:
a) Staffing policy and pattern
b) Performance appraisal and Job Evaluation
9. Define Supply Chain Management (SCM). Explain SCM in context with construction
materials management.
10. What is training? What are the objectives of the training? How training for construction
supervisor and executives is carried out in big project?
11. Write down functions of material management and explain them
12. What is procurement cost and inventory carrying cost? A construction company
purchases 10000 bags of cement annually. Each bag of cement costs Rs. 356 and cost
incurred in procuring each lot is Rs. 100. The cost of carrying is 25%. What is EOQ?
What is the average inventory level?
13. What is the definition of material management? Describe any three functions of material
management.
14. Describe the expression for Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) and explain limitations of
EOQ.
15. Explain the role of material manager on site.
16. Define Inventory and inventory control. List different methods of inventory control
and explain any one of it.
17. What is Economic order quantity (EOQ)? Also state Bulk order Quantity (BOQ) and
Arbitrary order Quantity (AOQ). Explain with suitable example, the factors on which
BOQ and AOQ depend.
18. Discuss role of the materials manager appointed in an organization manufacturing precast
and pre-stressed building components.
19. Discuss with examples the various primary and secondary objectives of material
management and the role of the materials manager in the balancing of objectives.
20. Write shot notes on:
a. Classification of materials
b. Codification of materials
21. Explain logistics and supply chain management
22. Whys staffing policy and pattern is important in construction sector
23. Explain the objectives and functions of training department for construction sector.
24. Explain the need and purpose of HIRS in construction sector.