This document describes a management information system called the Construction Material Management System (CMMS) developed by Kaptan Sagar R. to help with material management issues in construction organizations. The CMMS consists of five main modules for material requisition, purchase, delivery, report generation, and system maintenance. It was developed using MS Access 2000 software. The CMMS provides timely management of construction materials and allows efficient retrieval of relevant files.

1. M.TECH. CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT
PREPARED BY: KAPTAN SAGAR R. ID NO. 17CM811
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTION
MATERIALS
BIRLA
VISHVAKARMA
MAHAVIDHYALAYA
GUJARAT
TECHNOLOGICAL
UNIVERSITY
GUIDED BY: Dr. JAYESH KUMAR PITRODA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, BVM
INTRODUCTION
REFERENCES
CONCLUSION
▪ Many management-oriented problems exits amongst various
construction organization in the world, especially in developing
countries. Among these material management has been an
important issue.
▪ This work is aimed at identifying drawbacks associated with
material management as practiced in the industry and developing
a construction material management information system(CMMS)
to overcome these.
▪ CMMS consists of five main modules i.e., material requisition,
purchase delivery, report generate, and system maintenance.
▪ The development was carried out using “MS Access 2000”
software.
▪ CMMS is a tool for managing construction materials in a timely
manner and provides the ability to retrieve relevant file in an
efficient and effective manner.
▪ Banerjee, U. K., & Sachdeva, R. K. (1995). Management information
system: A new frame work. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House.
▪ Chunawalla, S. A. And Patel, D. R., Integrated materials
management concepts and cases, sima publishing house, Bombay
(1984)
▪ Oguri, T., Integrated material management system implemented on a
relational database concept, San francisco, california,1988,pp. 594-
600.
▪ The proposed system provides an interactive system for
managing construction materials in a timely manner.
▪ The system has the potential to be expended to facilitate and
eliminate deficiencies in finance management.
▪ It can be further be extended to be used as an online system
with E-mail facilities for planning of purchase orders.
▪ The system has the ability to access large amount of data,
reduces data redunduncy, increase data integrity and makes
information available when needed.
CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
(CMMS)
METHODOLOGY
• This facilitates for decision support. E.g.
when the required quantities are entered for
particular material, it provides the up to date
relevant information, stock in hand and total
quantity issued of that material.
Materials
Requisition
• This makes the preparation of purchase
orders much easier and in a short time.
Materials
Purchase
• This can be mainly used to keep track of the
various deliveries such as agent delivery,
direct supply etc.
Materials
Deliveries
• CMMS provides kinds of reports, which are
required for effective material management
such as purchase report, and materials
reconciliation report on project basis.
Reports
Generation
• CMMS allows inquiring about any supplier
just by entering the name of the supplier.Inquiries
SPECIAL FEATURES OF CMMS - DATABASE
MIS
A Management Information System is an integrated user-
machine system, for providing information, to support the
operations, management, analysis & decision-making functions
in an organization.