Supply chain management : a study on plastic recycling at United Plastic Recovery Sdn Bhd / Valerie Sinti, Norliza Dzulkifli and Norhismawati Lot

The purpose of this study is to identify the current purchasing, transformation and logistic process at UPR ; to examine the issues pertaining to the purchasing, transformation and logistic process at UPR; and to provide recommendation to UPR to have good supply chain management at United Plastic Re...

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Main Authors:	Sinti, Valerie, Dzulkifli, Norliza, Lot, Norhismawati
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Manufacturing industries
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/74285/1/74285.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.742852023-09-29T04:06:30Z Supply chain management : a study on plastic recycling at United Plastic Recovery Sdn Bhd / Valerie Sinti, Norliza Dzulkifli and Norhismawati Lot 2014 Sinti, Valerie Dzulkifli, Norliza Lot, Norhismawati Manufacturing industries The purpose of this study is to identify the current purchasing, transformation and logistic process at UPR ; to examine the issues pertaining to the purchasing, transformation and logistic process at UPR; and to provide recommendation to UPR to have good supply chain management at United Plastic Recovery Sdn. Bhd., Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Ultimately, this study also aims to identify the company's Supply Chain Management (SCM). For the purpose of this study, a qualitative method is used to collect information whereas a case study approach is used in this study to conclude the findings. Data collection was done through interview and observation. Time-Function Mapping and SWOT Analysis were selected to analyse the findings. The findings indicated that the current purchase and transformation process practiced by UPR take less than one day to run the company daily business. However, the finished products (inventory) are kept at UPR' factory for 26 days before being transport to customers location and become issue for the company. This study proposed UPR to reduce time taken for transporting PET flakes to the customers from 26 days to 14 days. 2014 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/74285/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/74285/1/74285.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sabah Faculty of Business and Management Shariff, Siti Halijjah Ting, Siew Kim
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language	English
advisor	Shariff, Siti Halijjah Ting, Siew Kim
topic	Manufacturing industries
spellingShingle	Manufacturing industries Sinti, Valerie Dzulkifli, Norliza Lot, Norhismawati Supply chain management : a study on plastic recycling at United Plastic Recovery Sdn Bhd / Valerie Sinti, Norliza Dzulkifli and Norhismawati Lot
description	The purpose of this study is to identify the current purchasing, transformation and logistic process at UPR ; to examine the issues pertaining to the purchasing, transformation and logistic process at UPR; and to provide recommendation to UPR to have good supply chain management at United Plastic Recovery Sdn. Bhd., Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Ultimately, this study also aims to identify the company's Supply Chain Management (SCM). For the purpose of this study, a qualitative method is used to collect information whereas a case study approach is used in this study to conclude the findings. Data collection was done through interview and observation. Time-Function Mapping and SWOT Analysis were selected to analyse the findings. The findings indicated that the current purchase and transformation process practiced by UPR take less than one day to run the company daily business. However, the finished products (inventory) are kept at UPR' factory for 26 days before being transport to customers location and become issue for the company. This study proposed UPR to reduce time taken for transporting PET flakes to the customers from 26 days to 14 days.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Sinti, Valerie Dzulkifli, Norliza Lot, Norhismawati
author_facet	Sinti, Valerie Dzulkifli, Norliza Lot, Norhismawati
author_sort	Sinti, Valerie
title	Supply chain management : a study on plastic recycling at United Plastic Recovery Sdn Bhd / Valerie Sinti, Norliza Dzulkifli and Norhismawati Lot
title_short	Supply chain management : a study on plastic recycling at United Plastic Recovery Sdn Bhd / Valerie Sinti, Norliza Dzulkifli and Norhismawati Lot
title_full	Supply chain management : a study on plastic recycling at United Plastic Recovery Sdn Bhd / Valerie Sinti, Norliza Dzulkifli and Norhismawati Lot
title_fullStr	Supply chain management : a study on plastic recycling at United Plastic Recovery Sdn Bhd / Valerie Sinti, Norliza Dzulkifli and Norhismawati Lot
title_full_unstemmed	Supply chain management : a study on plastic recycling at United Plastic Recovery Sdn Bhd / Valerie Sinti, Norliza Dzulkifli and Norhismawati Lot
title_sort	supply chain management : a study on plastic recycling at united plastic recovery sdn bhd / valerie sinti, norliza dzulkifli and norhismawati lot
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sabah
granting_department	Faculty of Business and Management
publishDate	2014
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Supply chain management : a study on plastic recycling at United Plastic Recovery Sdn Bhd / Valerie Sinti, Norliza Dzulkifli and Norhismawati Lot

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