Inventory management and control at an in-flight catering company

This report focused on inventory management and control at an in-flight catering company dry goods raw material store. The objective is to develop an inventory management and control procedure. ABC analysis was carried out to determine the frequency of stock check. Barcode system can improve the inv...

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Main Author:	Abu Othman, Nor Liawati
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	HD28 Management Industrial Management TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12213/6/NorLiawatiAbuMFKM2009.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.122132017-09-14T03:43:35Z Inventory management and control at an in-flight catering company 2009-11 Abu Othman, Nor Liawati HD28 Management. Industrial Management TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery This report focused on inventory management and control at an in-flight catering company dry goods raw material store. The objective is to develop an inventory management and control procedure. ABC analysis was carried out to determine the frequency of stock check. Barcode system can improve the inventory control of the dry goods raw material stock. Forecasting technique based on the historical data can help reduce over stock of raw material. The implementation of the inventory control techniques can improve the inventory management and at the company. The techniques proposed have been validated by the expert. 2009-11 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12213/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12213/6/NorLiawatiAbuMFKM2009.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 1. Peter Jones (2004). Flight Catering.2nd Edition. Elsevier. 2. Rainer Szymanski (1995). The well planned menu- logistics for an airline catering company. Logistics Information Management. Volume 8 No.3. page 43-44. 3. Yevvon Yi-Chi Chang & Peter Jones (2007). Flight Catering: An Investigation of the Adoption of Mass Customisation. Volume 14.Page 47-56 4. Brian McGarrie (2002).Case study: production planning & control – Selection, Improvement and Implementation. Volume 11.Page 44-52 5. James Golden, John Milewicz and Paul Herbig(1994). Forecasting: Trials and Tribulations.Volume 32. Page 33-36. 6. Sandra Cohen, George Veniers and Efrosini Kaimenaki(2005). ABC: adopters, supporters, deniers an unawares. Volume 20. page 981-1000. 7. R.L. Ballard (1996). Methods of inventory monitoring and measurement. Logistic Information Management. Volume 9. Page 11 – 18 8. Tanvi Kothari, Clark Hu, Wesley S. Roehl(2006). Adopting e-Procurement technology in a chain Hotel: An exploratory case study. Volume 26. Page 887-889. 9. Hayes, R.H., 1998. Developing POM faculties for the 21st century. Production and Operations Management 7 (2), 94–98. 10. Plossl, G.W., 1985. Production and Inventory Control: Principles and Techniques. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs,NJ. 11. Plossl, G.W., Welch, W.E., 1979. The Role of Top Management in the Control of Inventory. Reston Publishing Company, Inc., Reston, VA. 12. Leonieke G. Zomerdijk*, Jan de Vries (2003) . An organizational perspective on inventory control: Theory and a case study. International Journal of Production Economics .173–183.
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spellingShingle	HD28 Management Industrial Management TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Abu Othman, Nor Liawati Inventory management and control at an in-flight catering company
description	This report focused on inventory management and control at an in-flight catering company dry goods raw material store. The objective is to develop an inventory management and control procedure. ABC analysis was carried out to determine the frequency of stock check. Barcode system can improve the inventory control of the dry goods raw material stock. Forecasting technique based on the historical data can help reduce over stock of raw material. The implementation of the inventory control techniques can improve the inventory management and at the company. The techniques proposed have been validated by the expert.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Abu Othman, Nor Liawati
author_facet	Abu Othman, Nor Liawati
author_sort	Abu Othman, Nor Liawati
title	Inventory management and control at an in-flight catering company
title_short	Inventory management and control at an in-flight catering company
title_full	Inventory management and control at an in-flight catering company
title_fullStr	Inventory management and control at an in-flight catering company
title_full_unstemmed	Inventory management and control at an in-flight catering company
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
publishDate	2009
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