dc.contributor.author | Kenduiwo, John K. A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-26T06:37:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-26T06:37:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1988-06 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Masters of Business Administration, University of Nairobi (1988) | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/40099 | |
dc.description.abstract | Business organizations are faced with ever increasing
costs in transportation of goods, more so especially in view
of the high prices of transportation equipment and the
continually rising running expenses. Organizations should
therefore seek ways and means to reduce such costs.
Optimization techniques in the field of operations research
(OR) could provide a solution. It is within such a background
that this study was initiated to see if the KCC's
inter-factory transfer of bulk whole liquid milk is amenable
to transportation model techniques.
The paper attempts to model the transfers of bulk whole
milk between the KCC factories as a transportation problem.
In so doing It incorporates both the technical and managerial
considerations as viewed by the KCC management. Using a past
financial year's data, the- author attempts and shows that if
the transportation model had been used in planning the
transfers then savings in the transportation costs could have
been realized.
The major recommendation of the study is the need for
an OR specialist in the KCC management. Such a specialist would,
together with others, develop an integral vie~ of the KCC set up
and hence plan for the achievement of optimal conditions in
making the transfers | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi, | en |
dc.title | An Application of the Transportation Model: the Case of Inter-factory Transfer of Bulk Whole Liquid Milk at the Kenya Co-operative Creameries (Kcc) Limited | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
local.publisher | School of Business | en |