.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY Companies need to understand the business impact of supply chain decisions on their own organizations. However, to what extent do business leaders and supply chain managers understand the impact on the external world? This project highlights the Benefits of turning Supply Chains into a revenue chain in production companies and to provide guidance in making better decisions to drive shared value. It is our goal that the results of this project would guide future... read more

EINRITZ AND FARREL (1981, P.265) define negotiation as the act of arriving at a common understanding through bargaining on the essential of contract such as delivery terms, specification, price and others terms. Because of the interaction of these factors and many others, it is a difficult act and requires the exercise of judgment, fact and common senses. The effective negotiation must be a real shopper, alive to the possible of bang aiming strength. A negotiation knows where to be firm or make ... read more

In the light of the above it is hoped that this study will help eradicate or minimize the incidence of the above with the current emphasis of small scale manufacturing industries, this study will be of immense help to the public and any person who have the intention of indulging in some small scale business. Others who will benefit from this study are future researchers and fellow students who may pick up this work from the library. Since researcher could not have ordinary gone into t... read more

Moreover, the article published by environmental news, on Nigeria’s transportation and communication stresses that early modern communication took place in three modes, spoken words manuscripts writing especially letters and prints, oral communication was the oldest of these three and in many orays, early modern society was still primarily on oral society. Although literacy increased enormously during this period, most people, especially among the lower classes, possessed limited reading and s... read more

organizing and controlling of all more store activities that facilitate product flow from the point of raw materials acquisition to the point of find consumption as well as the attention information flows. Activities involved in this regard includes transportation, inventory management, warehousing as well as material handling and acquisition. All these logistics activities entails the use of certain equipment for performing profitably by firms.

utritional surveys which could provide relevant information in Calabar- South in Cross River State like in other rural communities, data on nutritional status is mainly based on periodic demographic and health surveys. As a result, there is limited information on levels and causes of under- five children years malnutrition, especially in rural communities evidence shows that urban children generally have a better nutritional status than their rural counterparts. (Smith et al, 2005;URT, 2010). Kn... read more

The primary objective of the store function is to provide service to the operating functions and these services cannot be provided without proper provision of storage facilities. The impact of storage facilities on store efficiency is to ensure that goods regularly required are stored accordingly. Adequate care of materials held within the organization is very important and stores, staff must be well trained in ensuring that materials held within the store are well taken care of s... read more

One of the fundamental responsibilities of procurement function in an organization is source selection. It deals with the entire process of how prospective suppliers are being surveyed, evaluated and determine policies relating to those who can most suitably meet the requirement of the organization, before they are being considered for a buyer and supplier relationship. However, this assessment is base on a number of essential instrument which price is one of the such.

Supplier selection is a procurement planning activity which allows managers to search for and find credible sources of supply that can ensure the availability of materials, equipments, fools, components, protects, consumables, and services at the right price, quantity, at the right tine and place. In order to ensure contritely of supply purchasing officers must spend tine and effort in investigating and evaluating prospective sources or suppliers and continuously appraising the performa... read more

Store code and material identification has witnessed great transformation in recent times due to technological advancement. Consequently, the risk of store personel have become far easier, more efficient, cost effective and all major operations are executed with high level of accuracy. Store code and material identification is an aspect of store management that enjoys this transformation. The process of indexing, coding and sorting has improved significantly with computer system applicat... read more

A store is an essential limb of an organization. It is the depository of all materials required by the organizations in the organization and supplies materials as an when required. It is important to note that the store is an area of great expenditure in manufacturing and assembling plant. It is true that store function is a major cost centre which make use of 70-75% annual budget of the firm (Dangana 2005) and thus it can affect saving and therefore contribute significantly and therefor... read more

Variety reduction can be applied to any production process. The technique certainly has more effect if applied in the right place and at the right time. Apparently in many organization, it is clearly to see organization be it manufacturing holding different number of types, size or grade of a product that can perform the same function, this means duplication of items, the cost of materials is the last remaining cost that is truly variable, a reduction in the cost of material clearly offe... read more