The Effect Of Material Handling On The Profitability Of A Manufacturing Company

CHAPTER ONE 1.1       Background of the Study Material Management, as practiced in business today, can be defined as “a confederacy of traditional material activities bound by a common idea. The idea of an integrated management approach to planning, comersion flow and distribution of products materials form the raw materials state to the finished state. (Iornum, 2007). The above definition implies that material management is generally concerned with the flow of materials from the source of supply through the production line to the final consumers. This means that material management i…