| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of the study was to identify the factors affecting inventory management in the
government parastatals in Kenya: a case study of Central Bank of Kenya. Inventory management
systems are tools used by organizations to achieve supply chain performance. Thus, this study
sought to establish the relationship between inventory management systems and supply chain
performance, The study was guided by four objectives: to determine the extent of inventory
management systems' application in governmental parastatals in Kenya, to investigate the impact
of staff competence on the supply chain performance in government parastatals in Kenya,
investigate the impact of information technology on supply chain performance of governrnent
parastatals and to establish the impact of information management on supply chain performance
of government parastatals in Kenya. Descriptive methods
be used for the study and
questionnaires would be used as the data collection instrument . the target population would be
210 members of the staff at TI1e Central Bank in which would involve top level management
.middle level management and support staff . A sample size of l 05 would be picked through
simple random sampling.
would
collecting data both open ended and closed ended questions would
be used. The quantitative and qualitative data generated would be analyzed by use of descriptive
feature in SPSS version 21.0, to generate information which would be presented using table,
charts. frequencies and percentages and infernal statistics to make predictions or inferences about
population from the observation and analysis sample. The regression model would be used to
show the relationship between the dependent and independent variables . The study would draw
conclusions whether supply chain performance is influenced by inventory management systems,
affected by staff competence, impacted by l.T and iniluenced by information management. The
research study employed a practical research design whereby an empirical study of the topic was
conducted. The target population of the entire study was 110 and a sample size of 80 respondents
was selected to represent the entire population of the study. The researcher used stratified
random sampling in selecting the sample size. The research used questionnaires to collect data
from the respondents. Analysis indicated the influence inventory management systems where
85% respondents agreed while J 5%of the respondents disagreed. On staff competence 78%of
respondents agreed that it does affect while 22% does not affect. On the effect of I.T on supply
chain performance in government parastatals 76% indicated that it does affect while 24%
indicted that it does not affect supply chain performance in governmental parastatals. The study also indicated the effect of information management on
supply chain performance of
government parastatals where 61 % of the respondents agreed that it does affect while 39%
disagreed it does not affect, therefore it can be concluded that inventory management systems
influence supply chain performance in government parastatals, It is recommended that the
management of this organization should adopt inventory management to better control their
stocks. It was recommended that the organization should invest in their supply chain staff
through proper training and career development. It was recommended that the government
parastatals policies example laws should embrace LT and keep abreast 'with recent developments.
It was recommended that improved information management solutions to better control
information flow across the institution's supply chain. | en_US |
