RELEVANCE OF MATERIALS HANDLING
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 GENERAL OVERVIEW
The flow of materials and finished goods is seen as a business on its own right away, concerned with minimizing the overall cost of supply but maximizing the market advantages. The movement of materials parts and finished products through the productive chain comes increasingly under a total material management philosophy, simultaneously, there are major change. Most organization maintain some handling equipment varying in size and computerized integrated handling system.
Handling materials which is one of the main activities in store house and stockyard is a costly operation and therefore the method and equipment should be efficient. It is critical that the most efficient and the most cost effective system is chosen at the beginning which will be flexible enough to allow for operation.
Materials handling is of major importance not only in the store house but also throughout the production process.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:Â
On the course of investigation, the researcher discovered the following problem of effective materials handling in a manufacturing industries (Consolidated Breweries Awomma)
Some of the problems include ;
i. Non impact of the profitability of the company:- Material handling has not been taken too serious in the company and therefore are not seen to make any impact in the profitability of the company.
ii. No adequate or effective program in place for the material handling development:- the company has no immediate program in place to develop and improve the material handling unit.
iii. Poor Coordination between the various materials handling activities:- there is lack of adequate coordination and perhaps integration between the various materials handling activities.
iv. Unskilled Labour:- Materials Handling Process are being carried out by people who are unskilled in handling materials.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of the study is to make in-depth investigation in the following areas.
i. To find out the extent to which different materials handling method adopted in breweries industries has helped to improve the company’s aim.
ii. To find out ways of improving co-ordination and more contributions to total materials handling cost by advocating for a materials handling management type in the organization.
iii. To find out the method of reducing overall cost through efficient management of materials handling equipment.
iv. To examine the caliber of staff involved in the various activities of materials handling.
v. To know and ascertain the contributions of materials handling methods and equipment employed to profitability and from efficient running of the system.
