The Logistics Practice, Challenge and Performance of Ride Technology, Ethiopia
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2024-09
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Addis Ababa University
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The aim of this paper is to navigate logistics performance of RIDE Technology, Ethiopia. Logistic plays great role to sustain company growth by reducing different operational cost and also its vital for countries’ economies growth. RIDE Technology is newly introduced in the Ethiopian fleet system, the system is expected to enhance the transportation system in the capital city and responsible for serving the population of the city. It has an important influence to the improved logistics system and practice in the country. Therefore, the aim of the study is to increase RIDE’s Technology better understanding of their current logistics performance and the research helps the company to adjust itself what potential areas are not fully addressed in their logistics activity and understand how currently is measuring and following up their logistics performance compared to the literature in order to investigate if the company is covering the critical and most relevant aspects when managing their logistics performance and measuring the logistics five process with the logistics performance measurement index terms quality, productivity, cost and cycle time performance indicators. In the research mixed research approach and descriptive analysis methods are deployed. In this study, Census is used. To substantiate why the researcher used census is that, in the company staffs that could have better understanding of their logistics system are limited in number and they are 65. From these employees the researcher can collect 58 fully answered questionnaires and the rest are not filled. The evidence from this study shows the current logistics performance of Ride technology in five logistics process is moderately high and there is no measurement system for their logistic performance. From the main challenges technological infrastructure and network in the country affects ride technology, whereas Transportation is highly practiced followed by the warehouse operation practice in ride technology.
Keywords/phrases: logistics performance, measurement index, logistic process