The Effect of use of Rental Vehicles on Logistics Performance: Case of GOAL Ethiopia
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2016-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Logistics performance is significant to apply in relief organization program due to emergency,
uncertainty and unpredictability of situation. Transportation is a logistics function which enables
to achieve fast delivery of material, person and other requirement to the needed place and time.
Therefore logistics performance is critical in saving life and compliance of donor /standard
stock holder requirement in humanitarian organization. Although extensive research has been
conducted in the area of transportation and logistics performance evaluation. The same can’t be
said by directly relating to rental transportation service and its influence on logistics
performance, especially in developing countries like Ethiopia. The purpose of this study is
addressing the effect of the third party transportation service on logistics performance. In order
to understand the study objective three goal developed and these only focused on identifying the
significant variable associated with logistics performance in relation to rental vehicle, examine
the relationship between use of rental vehicle and logistics performance and determine the
effects of use of rental vehicle on logistics performance .The study was based on one of
international humanitarian organization(GOAL Ethiopia).The research design employed in this
study isdescriptive using quantitative research methods for data collection. Questionnaires
which include 11 factors and 33 questions distributed to 110 respondents.The findings reveal
that there is a relationship between use of rental vehicle and logistics performance, and between
variables selected to measure quality of use of rental vehicle and logistics performance. The
result indicates that among the variables satisfaction, cooperation, response time, safety/security
and infrastructure have significant effect on logistics performance. More over the study finding
can be useful for other institutions and researchers
Key words: Logistics performance, Transportation service, rental vehicle
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Logistics performance; Transportation service; rental vehicle