PUBLISHER: Frost & Sullivan | PRODUCT CODE: 1926501
PUBLISHER: Frost & Sullivan | PRODUCT CODE: 1926501
Digital Transformation in the Construction Materials Industry, Global, 2025
Future Growth Potential Enhanced by a Culture of Innovation as a Catalyst for Digital Transformation
Digital transformation in the building materials industry involves integrating digital technologies and data-driven processes across every facet of a company's operations, including supply chain management, design, production, sourcing, and customer interactions. The goals are to increase productivity, sustainability, and safety, improve efficiency, and facilitate better stakeholder engagement, while providing cutting-edge digital goods and services. By using automation, real-time data analytics, and collaborative digital platforms, traditional procedures can be reorganized to maximize efficiency and reduce costs. Ultimately, technology adoption aims to boost operational resilience, strategic competitive advantage, and environmental and market responsiveness.
While numerous opportunities exist for solution providers across the extensive landscape of construction materials manufacturers, only a few embrace digital transformation to generate new revenue streams. Most mainly utilize digital tools to gain some level of efficiency. The analysis of digital transformation in construction materials companies seeks to address the following critical questions: A. How do construction materials companies implement technologies? B. What opportunities do they seek, and what are the other opportunities for the rest of the value chain?
The report targets: A. Construction materials companies looking to stay abreast of competitors' activities B. IT providers aiming to understand the unique opportunities within construction materials manufacturers
Table of Contents
Strategic Imperatives
- Why Is It Increasingly Difficult to Grow?
- The Strategic Imperative 8™
- The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on Digital Transformation in the Construction Materials Industry
Introduction
- Introduction
- Highlights
- Value Chain of Digitized Construction Materials Manufacturers
- Digital Domains
- Construction Business Value Chain (I)
Growth Opportunity Analysis
- Importance of Business Objectives
- Investments and Sustainability
- AI: Criticality and Deployment
- AI: Organization's Position and Implementation
- AI: Implementation Challenges and Planning
- Growth Drivers
- Growth Restraints
Materials Development: Machine Learning and Smart Materials
- Latest Advancements in Materials Informatics
Smart Procurement, Supply Chain Digitization, and Automation: IoT, RFID, Blockchain, and Analytics
- Smart Procurement in the Construction Materials Industry
- Buildings as Material Banks and Supply Chain Optimization*
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Supply Chain Automation
- Smart Procurement, Supply Chain Digitization, and Automation in Construction Materials: Companies to Highlight
Digital Plant: Industrial IoT and Automation, Process Optimization and Quality Control, Digital Factory Management, Digital Twins, and Employee Experience
- Digital Plant
- Digital Twins
- Industrial IoT Definitions
- Industrial IoT Use Cases
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Employee Experience
- Customer-Facing Digital Solutions: Omnichannel Customer Experience, Digital Marketing, eCommerce, Personalized Services and AI-Driven Recommendations, AR/VR, BIM, Analytics, and EPDs
- Building Information Modeling
- Customer Experience
- Evolution from Single-Channel to Omnichannel Customer Experience
- Digitalization of Customer Experience
- Digital Customer Experience Cases in Focus
Growth Opportunity Exploration: Climate-Smart Technologies in the Built Environment
- Climate-Smart Solutions in the Built Environment
Growth Opportunity Exploration: High-Growth Niches in the Built Environment
- High-Growth Niches in the Built Environment
- Robotics and Prefabricated Construction
Growth Opportunity Universe
- Growth Opportunity 1: Digital Technology to Retain and Recruit Talent
- Growth Opportunity 2: Digital Solutions to Improve Productivity
- Growth Opportunity 3: Digital Transformation Value Chain
- Growth Opportunity 4: Last-Mile Optimization
- Growth Opportunity 5: Monitoring Digital Service Layer on Top of Materials and Assemblies
- Growth Opportunity 6: Vertical Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) Solutions
- Growth Opportunity 7: Robotics and Modular Construction
Next Steps
- Benefits and Impacts of Growth Opportunities
- Next Steps
- List of Exhibits
- Legal Disclaimer
