The Effect Of Transport Management Practice On Logistics Performance The Case Of Ethiopian Defense Force Logistics Main Department
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2019-05
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Addis Ababa University
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As part of logistics, transportation has emerged to have huge potential in enhancing production and distribution of goods, personnel, military equipments materials in the organization. Understanding this is very essential and important in defense organization where each and every part of supply chain management is essential for the effectiveness of the entire department in the organization. The department was chosen because it has not been performing well as expected despite in the last three years (2016-2018). The study was guided by the following objectives; to establish the level of implementation of transport management practice on logistics performance, to determine the relation between transport management practices and logistics performance and to identify the challenges in the implementing of transport management practices on logistics performance at LMD. This study was adopted the descriptive and inferential statics on explanatory research design to obtaining the information about the study topic. The study’s population comprised of all logistics main department employees who were selected based on stratified sampling approach. The data was collected by using questionnaire and interview and analyzed using descriptive and inferential analysis used by Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The study found out that both customer requirement strategy and carrier management practice to low extent and both freight payment and audit practice and transport performance monitoring practice were implemented to a moderate extent. The study further found out that there exists a strong relationship between transport management practice and logistics performance at LMD. The study also found out that there are challenges that limit the effectiveness in the implementation transportation process. The study thus concludes that increase in transport management practice would result in enhanced logistics performance. The study recommends that the management at LMD conduct an evaluation of these strategies, and how exactly they are implemented. The study thus suggests that further studies to be conducted on how these challenges may be addressed. Further research should also be using a different approach in determination of the effect of transportation has in logistics performance
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Transport Management Practices, Transport Service, Logistics Performance and Supply Chain