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The Application Of Production Skills In The Management Of Business Organization To Gain Competitive Advantage
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1.8 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF CASE STUDY
BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE COMPANY (PPMC)
The
pipelines and products marketing company limited (PPMC) was
incorporated in November 1988 as a subsidiary of the Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The emergence of the company was by no
means accidental, but as a result of a painstaking effort at
revolutinalizing, mordernizing and commercializing the activities of
NNPC and its integral parts. Its evolution commenced some twenty years
ago as a result of the economic boom of the early 70s which led to the
unprecedented and phenomenal rise in domestic petroleum consumption. The
private sectors capacity and capability then proved rather inadequate
to service effectively the demand growth. The ensuring production and
distribution, constraints precipitated incessant supply demand crisis.
Long
queues at the limited retail outlets (filling station) were a common
sight. The government responded decisively by planning and executing the
construction of two or more refineries one each at Warri and Kaduna
respectively and also a country wide 3,000 kilometers petroleum products
pipeline network linked to storage depots. By February 1979, following
the completion of the Port-Harcourt –Aba-Enugu-Markurdi pipelines
systems, the need to have an organization to operate and manage the
system became necessary. A pipeline unit was consequently established.
An American company, Williams International group Incorporated (WIGI)
provided “ technical back up†to the unit. Department of the then
commercial Division had for long been responsible for the distribution
and marketing of petroleum products both departments to form the
Pipeline and Products Marketing Division (PPMD), in 1982 was natural.
In
1985, NNPC was re-organized into sectors for the first time “well
defined strategic business units with well defined corporate objectives
emergedâ€. The pipeline and products marketing sector (PPMS) was formed
through the merger of the pipelines operation (POD) and the products
marketing and marine transportation division (PMMTD) PPMS) later
metamorphosed into PPMC limited during the 1988-re-organisation. The
business mission of PPMC is to ensure adequate and reliable supply of
petroleum products to the domestic market, safely and at low operating
cost; market petrochemical and special products competitively in the
domestic and international markets provide excellent customer service by
effectively and efficiently transporting crude oil to the refineries
and moving petroleum products to the market.
The company has its head
office located a long Kachia Road behind the Kaduna refinery and
Petrochemical company, with five depots and five pump stations namely;
Kaduna depot, Kano depot, Jos depot, Gusau depot, Suleja depot and Minna
depot. The pump stations include Sarkin Pawa pump station, Izom pump
station, Zaria Pump station, Kaduna pump station and Abuja pump station.
1.9 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Management:
According to Rosser (1073) management is the utilization of physical
and human resources, through co-operative efforts, resulting in the
performance of functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing
and controlling.
Skill: This is the learned ability to bring about
pre-determined results with maximum outlay of time or energy or both.
Skills also can be defined as the capacity to bring about and end
results with maximum certainty, minimum energy or minimum time.
Industries: collection of firms, producing similar product to produce a particular product as an end product.
Application: This is the action of putting something necessary into operation
Strategy:
The process of planning something or putting a plan, into operation in a
skillful way. A plan that is intended to achieve a particular purpose.
Advantage:
A thing that helps you to be better or more successful than other
people. A quality of a product that makes it better or successful or to
put somebody in a better position than others people or than they were
in before.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Production skills is a basic element in maintaining the production capacity of an organization is an important function in any production organization. The reprocess of any organization is made up of both it’s human and material assets, which are the source of generating revenue and growth. A great deal of production skills, is required to harness both the human, machine, materials, money, and assets of a production firm, and stay on top of the business, been a competitive market. Where t ... Continue reading---
