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Role Of Material Management In Production Activities
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1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The
research work meant to cover the role of material management in all
industries as it relates to production activities. But as a result of
time constraint, insufficient resources like finances and data etc. the
researcher limited the research work to Lexos paints industries Limited
information obtained will be used for generation, for other organization
in the industry.
1.8 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The researcher in
the course of carrying out research work contained some problems which
in one way or the other limited the source of carrying the project study
further few ones among then include:
1. INADEQUATE FINANCE:
Constraints stands as one of the factors that make it impossible for the
researcher to go around for this study, considering the fact that the
researcher is a student and conserving also the huge transport fare that
is involved, it is rather tasking and difficult.
2. TIME CONSTRAINT:
The researcher being a student and has a lot of academic work to
pursue, instead of examining all the roles of materials management in
production activities in most notable industries, the researcher limited
his study to Lexos paints industries Nigeria Limited Port Harcourt.
3.
NON-RESOURCES: Most of the people interviewed in the course of carrying
out this research were ignorant of the subject of the study. They
failed to give elaborate information about the organization despite the
fat that the information given will be confidential. Books related to
materials management was unavailable in some of the library visited by
the researcher.
1.9 DEFINITION OF TERMS
DISPATCHING: This is the
selection of assignment of jobs by an individual work centre on the shop
floor. A dispatch list is a schedule for a particular center. This can
be generated easily by a computer and it’s issued daily showing the
priority sequence of jobs to be done at the work center.
MATERIALS
MANAGEMENT: Materials management is a concept which being together under
one manager the responsibilities principally concerned with the flow of
materials into an organization. As such it is concerned with production
and control of activities involved in the acquisition and use of all
materials employed in the production of finished goods.
PRODUCTION
ACTIVITIES: These are activities that goes on in the production
department like production planning and control which involves
programming and dispatching.
MATERIALS ACTIVITIES: These are
activities that have to do with materials, like purchasing, stocking,
controlling, distribution and receiving, storage of inventory, packaging
and production control.
PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL: This is
responsible for producing detailed schedules of part material required
to be produced or manufactured in order to realize the out come of the
production programmed or sales forecast approved by the management.
PROCESSING:
It is a control method used in measuring and feeding back information
about various achievement and plan to take corrective action.
STORAGE:
This involves the physical handling and housing of parts and materials
either as bought or in various stages of manufacture or as a finished
product for sale.
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