Priorities of the logistics risks management in the resource support of construction projects

The article deals with the problem of the logistics risks management in the resource support of construction projects based on the complex accounting of modern approaches to the management of functional areas of logistics and supply chains. It is argued that these issues have not been provided with sufficient attention in the academic publications. The state of the construction industry is examined, and critical analysis is carried out. The distinctive features of risks associated with the provision of construction services, due to their intangible components are characterized. The institutional specifics of regulation in the sphere of construction services are disclosed, and the limits of management of logistics risks through the use of special software are justified. The priorities for managing such risks in the resource support of construction projects are set. The targeted nature of the international quality standards regulation for the management of the organization's risk on the basis of a systematic approach has been argued. The authors point out integration of the risk management in the management of sustainable development of enterprises as an independent functional unit. The necessity of differentiating the management of the design logistics risks in the resource support of construction, and the risk management in the operational logistics activities carried out in course of the implementation of construction projects is substantiated. The contract strategy of the resource support for construction projects, which determines the rules of coordination of the project conditions of supply contracts, logistic coordination of deliveries, procurement placement (including the rationale for the methods of such placement) and rapid response to negative logistics precedents is characterized in the paper. It is concluded that there is a need to coordinate supplies in the projects’ resource support system, taking into account the specificity of the functional cycles of logistics and the applicability of alternative methods of intervening in the operational logistics activities