CHAIN COLLABORATION BETWEEN A HOUSING CORPORATION AND TWO GENERAL CONTRACTORS, THE FIRST STEPS

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Several housing corporations in the Netherlands have realized they cannot do it alone if they want to renovate their housing stock faster, cheaper and with a higher quality. More and more of these corporations are forming strategic alliances with contractors and other partners to reach these goals. They are applying principles of supply chain integration and lean on the total process of the building lifecycle, under the umbrella concept of Chain Collaboration (Ketensamenwerking in Dutch). This article draws from active research executed on two projects which started in 2010 and are still under development. It focuses on the definition and design phase and describes the approach applied to implement the chosen strategies. Keywords: supply chain integration, lean, strategic alliance, housing corporation