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Construction supply chains are usually one-off combinations of cooperating business entities. With many potential partners to choose from, and numerous options of transport means and routes, arranging the supply chain for a project is not an easy task. Its implications are costs, time, and quality. To facilitate the decision making process, the authors put forward a method of assessing options of supply chain configuration. The method is based on a modified quantitative approach to SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats). To illustrate the idea, the method was applied to a simplified case based on a real-life project. Though the method does not automatically respond to changes and risks that occur as the project develops, it is considered useful at the early planning stage as an element of early strategic analysis: not only to pick the best of available options, but to plan logistic management actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]