The effect of effective stores management on organizational performance: a case study of New Vision
Abstract
The study was carried out at New Vision Uganda with the purpose of examining the effects of
effective stores management on organizational performance. The research objectives were; to
examine the effect of Just-In-Time as a stores management tool on the effective performance of
New Vision, to investigate the effect of inventory control as a stores management tool on the
effective performance of New Vision and to examine the relationship between stores
management and quality performance at New Vision, Uganda.
The literature review was done based on the study objectives and a descriptive research design
was used where both qualitative and quantitative approaches of data collection were adopted on
50 respondents using questionnaires as data collection methods. The study found out that the
application of JIT has made materials arrive at the right time, holding costs have reduced, also,
products are produced in right amounts, waste have reduced, production costs have reduced and
the general storage costs have reduced since less is stored.
However, JIT doesn’t totally remove the cleaning costs and has not reduced inspecting and
ordering costs. The study concludes that inventory control helps in inventory planning and
scheduling, inventory control reduces on operational costs since the organization ensures that
only authorized personnel are allowed to make purchase in the organization, it also pays
attention to the inventories whose value is high and does not experience under stock situations.
The study also found a strong positive relationship between stores management and performance
at Pearson correlation coefficient r= 0.794.
It is recommended that there is need to install a strong control and inspecting system so as to
detect fraud and theft of stock and the stores should be enlarged and tidy so as to ensure
maximum usage of space among other recommendations.