An Appraisal of Inventory Control and Management in Manufacturing Industries: Nigerian Experience
This research was undertaken to explore the nature of efficient inventory control and management, focusing on Hamdala Sweet factory ltd., for manufacturing industries. The study aims to examine and recognize the areas of the company’s lapses and provide successful ways and strategies in which the manufacturing company can explore the inventory management service to achieve its goals. Adopted used different research instruments such as questionnaires and oral interviews in the conduct of this study to collect data from respondents, and a simple random sampling to select a sample size of 50. For this work, the statistical instrument used is chi-square. Based on the study, it found that inventory management in the manufacturing company plays a vital role. Well-functional inventory management following the recommendations will lead to proper management, thereby improving appropriate and productive production and ensuring equally effective, efficient and sufficient use of the manufacturing company’s materials and resources.
