NEED FOR EFFECTIVE WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT ON PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION IN A SERVICE ORGANIZATION
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTERDICTIONÂ
The function of warehouse management is to provide cost effective storage in a suitable condition for the organization materials to enhance effective rendering of customer services. The existence of a warehouse is justified by the extent to which it contribution to the efficiency and effectiveness of physical distribution functions.
The Geographical locations of a warehouse operation should be determined by sites and the physical position of target markets. However, in some developing countries and Nigeria, political conditions have some hires override economics arguments and facilities such as warehouse go down.
Warehouse managers have a number of important challenges which include determination of most appropriate units loads optimizing space utilization, reducing the movement of labour equipment safe, secure warehousing environment and keeping cost to a minimum.
1.1 GENERAL OVERVIEW
An earlier resource pack described the decision that must be taken when a company organizes a channel.
According to Plasack (1978:25) initially a system to control movement and storage of warehouse management system (WMs) is expending to including light manufacturing, transportation management, other management and complete accounting system. What is clear is that the expansion of the over lapin functionality between warehouse management system and other functional areas in physical distribution of materials. Even though warehouse management contributes to gain added functionality, the initial core functionality of a warehouse management system has not changed. The primary purpose of warehouse management is to control the movement and storage of materials within and operation.
The detailed set up and processing within a warehouse management system in my area of case study power holding company of \Nigeria Owerri varies significantly from one materials renders to another.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
This research is intended to find out answers to the problems inhered in organization.
Some of the specific problems of these organizations are listed below but not limited to.
I Companies and the consumers faces the problem of getting their materials in the market.
ii. Some rural areas where distributing warehouse could be located have no access roads.
iii. There are ineffective handling and storage of materials in the various warehouse, poor control of the movement of materials.
Iv The inability of managing the materials in the warehouse in order to identify the expired goods
V, There are sometimes delay of supply of goods to the various warehouse to meet customer demand due to poor scheduling of vehicles
