THE REASON FOR EFFICIENT DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING OF STORES PERSONNEL IN AN INDUSTRY

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Background of the Study

With the challenge and dynamic nature of today's marketing competitiveness the world of business, most corporation or organization have decided to effectives develop their human resources department so as to harness the best caliber of export in a particular field of study. To most industries, where the ready made can't be easy gotten, the need to train and develop experts arise. The new employee's to company may have potentials but often this must be developed and refined. The nature of the store function is changing which in turn requires a developing set skills on the part of purchasing personnel. Training and development of staff then very crucial for effective performance of work.

However, stores management goes further in scope, aid operation and equally the function of the overall purchasing stores operations. The main purpose of stores management is to provide a service to all other department in organization and to enhance efficiency in order to provide the required service to all other department in organization and to enhance efficiency in order to provide the required service as economically as possible.

Efficient training and development of store personnel contributes effective to the success of most organization hence, the need for trained staff cannot over emphasis thus the stores is an area for the company as inefficiency its management could compel a company or corporation to fold up.

It is therefore vital and important for the public and private sectors to know that there is need for the adequate training and development of the store personnel.

The researcher has taken time to finding out why both private and public sector of the economy need store department and to know what leads to neglect or inefficiency. In any case, this work will not be see as an ‘Encyclopedia of stores organization training and development that is to contain all, but an attempt has been made here to provide a brief insight to readers, managers, students, professional men and women in purchasing and supply what training and development of store personnel means. The training and development should be arranged in such a way as to create harmony. Understanding and sound internal relationship so as to achieve the expected goal of the company.

The researcher is also to examine the way in which the learner may best be able to acquire such skills and knowledge. This process by which the organization import these skills and knowledge which are required in a particular job is called “training”.

Training and development are closely related to personnel selection and other personnel function in the activities that complement each other in the interest of achieving an effective and satisfied work force.

To meet the challenges of satisfaction of human and industrial needs through the creation of goods and services, the management intensifies recruitment exercise and training programs on-the-job training for new employee's was encourages while so engineering staff were sent oversees on staff training.

The Emenite industry Enugu participated in seminars and workshop organized by Etex group companies in European and Eternit limited, Sapele Nigeria. The highlight of this emphasis on high level manpower development was the creation let a training department.

Then, come the historical background of Emenite Industry Enugu, it was formally owed by TONAS ALBASTOE of England in 1961, but due to marketing threats of its competitiveness, it was sold to Etex world in 1988 where its name was given as EMENITE LTD because it was situated in the Emene residence's industrial layout of Enugu state, now in Enugu central local government area, it was through the effort of late Etienne vander rest of eternic France that this was successful. They engage in production of AC pipes, Emcei flat sheets, pressure pipes, standard corrugated sheets, garden furniture and Etex plastics.

The corporation has its commercial area office at Sapele, Lagos and Enugu. They have a straight line organigram structure of management where purchasing department takes the responsibility of all industrial buying and solely on centralized buying. But the purchasing department lies with other department in their decision making in other to achieve the correct specification of materials standard and quality assurance. All their material bills are in sequence with the prosecution planning scheduling based on their corporate budgeting.

In other to limit the study on area of stores management they has technical stores, raw material store and finished good stores. And every stores personnel is trained based on nature and scope of his reasonability in the store. This makes to bring the work to a pattern.

There functions are as follow:

1. Quality control activities
2. Holding, controlling and issuing stocks
3. Control of Store house, material handling functions
4. Clerical administrative of stores operation
5. Training stores personnel
6. To ensure that all material/items receive and issued for production are properly accounted for.

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1.2 Statement of Problem

The problem of training and development of store personnel have been identified as enormous. A through look at the present staffing of stores department of Emenite industry Enugu, shows that a huge sum of money is being lost every year due to lack of experience stores personnel the company is yet to be convinced of the need for stores management function. Thus, they assign their responsibility to unqualified or unskilled personnel who cannot cope with the present complexity of modern business, thereby running down the organization. My investigation revealed some anomalies in view of that. In summary, they have the following problems.

– Lack of encouragement to take course and training such as ones organized by the Nigeria Institute of purchasing and supply management (NIPSM)

1. Examine the ways of improving staff performance by encouraging staff development.
2. Lack of finance to avail ability of materials for the training programmes.
3. Examine the opportunities that exist for their advancement and promotion.
4. Material are not kept in the care of professional qualified personnel.

It is these problem that made the researcher to take up this study with a view to determine what can be done to correct or improve the situation and encourage the training and development of stores personnel.

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1.3 Objective of Study

Over the years the stores department functions has advanced greatly as result of the scope and serious of the research that has been carried out on the application of these techniques in that field. Subsequently, professional on the principle techniques and practice of stores management emerged, being developed and reviewed in line with current developments in the society technology field to make for more efficient performance.

This research work therefore has the objective of highlighting the neglected but important benefits of prudent store management, and the contribution it can make in the revamping of our ailing national economy specifically, the research has the following objectives:

To determine also the degree of interference (if any) by the top management on the operation of the store. To determine through the analysis, the degree of its need in the organization if the store full short in standard of work provided to determine whether the education/ professional qualification of the stores staff is the actual cause. To determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the stores management function Emenite industry.

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1.4 Research Question

1. How will you access the role of stores personnel in the organization?
2. What are the various steps involved in training of stores personnel in the organization?
3. Are there any relationship between stores function and other departments in the organization?

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1.5 Hypothesis

• Ho: Stores personnel has no significant roles in the organization
• Hi: Stores personnel ahs significant role in the organization.
• Ho: There is no defined procedure in training of stores personnel in an organization.
• Hi: There is defined procedure in training of stores personnel in an organization.
• Ho: There is no obstacles habiting against the operation of stores management in the organization.
• Hi: There is obstacles habiting against the operation of stores management in the organization.
• Ho: There is no relation between stores function and other department in the organization.
• Hi: There is relation between stores function and other department in the organization.

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1.6 Significance of the Study

Undoubtedly, it is the objective of every prudent manager to apply and control the organization fund profitably, and this starts with using qualified personnel that can meet and absorb all the needs of the organization advancement. It is therefore the belief of the researcher that the information gathered from this study will improve the need for efficient training and development of unskilled stores personnel, and his problems will be avoided on reduced drastically, thereby creating an avenue for efficiency.

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1.7 Scope of Study

This work is an attempt to study the nature, the origin and subsequence growth of training and development of stores personnel in our organization set ups. With the aim of crystallizing the progress and achievement, the failure, the difficulties, the possibilities and limitation of the efficient training of stores function in both private and public sector activities thereby reducing totally inventory cost and improving services where the user departments.

The above aim cannot be achieved where the training and development of store personnel is neglected and development of store personnel is neglected and only quack are used to occupy professional position. Simply because the man at the head wants achieve selfish end etc if right people employ and there is good training and development programme, it will help to avoid misrepresentation of the profession.

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1.8 Definition of Terms

Purchasing:

It is the activities directed towards acquisition of materials goods and services required for production and human consumption in right quality at reduced cost and delivered at right time.

Need:

It is a physiological or psychological requirement for the well being of a person.

Training:

Training is the adoption molding of a person to increase his fitness for a specific activity. It is the teaching of technical skills to non – managerial personnel.

Quality Performance:

This ability of staff to cope with the required standard needed and to work towards the basic ethic of the company.

Organization:

The activity of co-coordinating an administration structure for an attainment of their planned objective.

Procedure:

These are series of steps or patterns performed to accomplish a specific task

Efficient:

Capable and able to perform duties accordingly without variances.

Programme:

This is a state plan, tractice and strategy been adopted as a comprehensive way to execute each organization actives sequentially.

Inventory:

All of the material, parts, supplies, expensive tool and in process or finished products recorded on the looks by an organization and kept in its store rooms or warehouse.

Obsolete:

When an item is no longer usable by an organization due to change in specification, standard quality, technological change and age.

Centralized Purchasing:

This is the system of collective responsibility and concentration of authority for buying purpose.