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Low adoption rate of Industrialized Building System (IBS) is an issue in Malaysian construction industry. Promoting its use is one of the initiatives of the Malaysian Construction Industry Transformation Program. As incentives have been offered by the government to the IBS adopters, low adoption rates are seen to be potentially due to demotivation of the contractors. This paper reports on the progress to date of a Ph.D. research project aimed on Supply Chain Management (SCM) framework development on to increase the IBS adoption by contractors. Supported by successful examples in the UK, there is confidence that the proposed SCM framework would bring positive results if implemented in Malaysia. Malaysian Public sector governance has identified the potential of SCM and aimed to utilize it through the Construction Industry Transformation Program 2016. A thorough review of literatures, survey and structured interview approach will be used to achieve the research objectives. The outcome of the research will be the groundwork that addresses the root demotivating factors and determine the SCM tools implementation to diminish them.
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To Cite this Article: Zainuddin, M. F., Riazi, S. R. M., Zain, F. M. Y., Saidin, M. T., & Saberi, M. H. (2022). Supply Chain Management to Overcome Demotivation in Adopting Industrialised Building System of Malaysian Construction Industry. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(8), 1018 – 1030.
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