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Impact Of Effective Warehouse Management On Physical Distribution In A Manufacturing Organization
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1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Manufactures of
consumer products different types face the problem of getting their
products to various market locations all over the country. The use of
warehouses and intermediaries only distribute the products to the near
by market place or states. Some rural areas where distributing warehouse
could be located have no access roads. Other problems associated with
this study are those of ineffective handling and storage of materials
(goods) in the various warehouses, poor control of the movement of
materials exist both from the manufacturing warehouse and their deport
warehouses located at different strategic areas. Another problem is
their ability of managing the material goods in the warehouse in order
to identity the expired goods and avoid mixing them up with the normal
ones. Supply of goods to the various warehouse to meet customer demand
are sometimes delay, as a result of poor scheduling of vehicles. The
concept of warehouse management system in some organization to day has
not being properly implemented to gain the adequate measure of
increasing customer service.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objective of the study is now apparent having clearly started the problems. Therefore the prime objectives are:
i. To ascertain the reason goods are not available in some warehouse located outside.
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To determine the degree of effectiveness and efficiency to which
warehouse management approach has been adopted in this industry.
iii. To examine the type of staff involved in the various warehouse management activities in the industry.
iv. To identify the contribution of warehouse management to profit ability of this organization as a whole.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
It
is imperative that the importance and validity of this research project
be sufficiently stated. The importance of this research study is to
provide a comprehensive and in depth study of warehouse management,
exploring vast possibility through cost reduction and an avenue to
identify various movement and storage at goods that have been practiced
in a wrong perspective which have lead to inefficient management of
storage and distribution of finished products in Unilever Plc.
Furthermore, the study will prove and suggest different methods of
developing reliable suppliers of the industry in order to cut short
delivery delay as a result of production stoppage. More over, it is the
mind of the researcher to highlight the implication of neglecting other
functional unit that are related to warehouse such as stock control,
purchasing and packaging which contributes adequately towards the
achievement of physical distribution objectives.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research work on the impact of effective warehouse organization, with a case study of Unilever Nigeria Plc Aba is geared towards ensuring adequate warehouse management system in order to increase customer satisfaction, warehouse management as part of the activities of physical distribution focused more on the storage maintenance and distribution of finished goods to the appropriate areas they are needed.In a manufacturing company where raw materials, stock of finished goods and accessories ... Continue reading---
