Physical Distribution Management In Brewery Industries

This project work was on the distribution management in brewery industry (A case study of Nigeria Brewery Plc).
The objectives of the study were:
To ascertain whether the company has sufficient number of functional distribution vans.
To find out if the company have dependable source of raw material from the objectives of the study for hp were formulated.
Literature review was carried out on related materials, handbooks and journals.
The population of study were the staff, distributors and customers to the company.
Simple randomly sampling technique was used to determine the sample size in order to reduce the error of bias and every member of the population have equal chance of being selected. Questionnaires were used to elicit data from respondents, simple tables and percentages were used to analysis data.
From the analysis it was discovered that:
Nigeria breweries maintained only one central warehouse in the factory promises which permit more rapid adjustments to changes.
The major problems facing the company is in the area of transportation in view of this:
1) It was recommended that top management should ensure that a distribution system is predicated upon clearly defined aims and objectives.
2) The need for periodic critical appraisal of their distribution state with a view to identifying the factors that inhibits their effectiveness was suggested.
These measures will help improve the distribution system of the company.