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Impact Of Storage And Material Handling On Store Efficiency
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1.4 Significance of The Study.
The research exercise is
conducted primary to meet the requirement for the award of Higher
National Diploma in purchasing and supply of kaduna polytechnic.
The
aim is also to express my concecptual knowledge in the areas of storage
and materials handling efficiency and to know how materials are being
stored and handling in Peugeot automobile Nigeria limited.
This
researcher choose this topic to highlight the inherent danger and
consequence of adopting in proper storage and handling of material in
Peugeot Automobile Nigeria limited kaduna from suppliers to the finished
product with a view of providing solution or making the industry to
take necessary corrective realistic measure of storage and handling of
material and employ services of skillfull, honest, qualified and
intelligent personnel to handle the store. If the solution to be
provided in the research work are applied to store and handling of
material of the company (PAN) it will show the impact in an organization
efficiency and performance.
Another vital reason of the study is to
contribute to the existing literature in the area of storage and
handling of material in store house for future references. It will
enable a lay man in the profession to have first hand information on how
proper storage and handling of material is carried out in store. Also
the students of the department and other department will find this
project as an important and relevant source of literature review in the
area of handling material. Further, the study will suggest ways that the
company can handle material on store efficiency.
1.5 Delimitation of the Study
This
research work will cover the areas in which storage and material
handling is based on most especially the place under study witch is
(Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited) the way they produce and the
objective of material handling in their organization, store efficiency
and the way the storage corporate with organization and the techniques
used in store efficacy and how to store material in order to achieve
the desired goals and objectives of the organization which is (Peugeot
Automobile Nigeria Limited).
1.6 Research Question
1. What is the contribution of store to the development of an organization.
2. How do the objectives of storage of materials contribute to the organization
3. What are the methods of materials handling, suitable for the case study.
1.7 Brief History of Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited (PAN)
Peugeot
automobile Nigeria (PAN) was incorporated in December 1972 as limited
liability companys principally to produce all sell Peugeot cars and
provide a platform for the development of middle and lower industries.
PAN formally commenced production on 14th march, 1975 with the initial
production capacity of 240 cars per day in two separate shifts, bringing
the annual capacity at that material time to 60,000. However, between
1980 and 1981 the production capacity improved substantially to 90,000
cars per annum.
Peugeot Automobile Nigeria limited (PAN) is situated
on a total surface area of 330,000 square meters, the equivalent of 82.5
acres. It has a total free space area of 177,200 square meters, which
underscore the fact that the company in the course of further
development will still have enough land space in the near and remote
future. As its incorporation in 1972, PAN had the following structure
development.
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