Android application prototype for construction logistics tracking

The construction industry is progressing by integrating collaborative approaches including new technologies and monitoring construction flow across the project life cycle. Material handling accounts for almost two-thirds of a construction project's budget, approximately 65 percent. Maintaining the project's budget and schedule requires timely delivery of construction materials to the required site location while maintaining their quantity. This study aims to identify shortcomings in the construction supply chain's transportation phase. To address one of the significant problems in this phase, the supplier's monitoring of real-time location during vehicle movement, a mobile application prototype was developed using the JAVA programming language, Android Studio Development Kit, and Firebase database. The study demonstrates the development of a mobile app framework for the case study project. The app was tested while delivering consignments of precast elements for the construction site using tools and the results were compared in terms of time efficiency. The test results indicated that the app is well-designed, user-friendly, and meets the needs of construction industry. It is an interactive, accurate and convenient method to use mobile apps to facilitate ordering, tracking, monitoring, and real-time management of logistics processes from dispatch to record storage, inspection and risk mitigation.