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Endalw Adamu
Assistant Professor, Management Department, College of Business and Economics,
Werabe University, Ethiopia
ABSTRACT
Recently, in the dramatically growing digital world, the management of materials
plays a criticalrole on the performance of manufacturing companies. This study
focuses on the effect of materials management practices on organizational
performance of flour factories of Werabe. In this research descriptive and explanatory
research designs were applied. In order to collect accurate data the researcher used
mixed research design (descriptive and explanatory) in integration with a commonly
used quantitative research approach. The researcher used both Primary and
secondary data source for the study. The researcher employed mixed sampling design
or technique (stratified random, purposive and convenience sampling) to take sample
respondents under the study.
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Sayfedin Sultan Yesuf and Redela Seman Habib, The Effect of Material Management
Practice on Organizational Performance: In Case of Werabe Town Flour Factories,
International Journal of Management (IJM), 14(6), 2023, pp. 70-80.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Every organization makes significant financial investments in materials. The cost of materials
often exceeds 50% of the overall cost of items produced. Such a huge investmentnecessitates
extensive planning and monitoring in order to minimize waste, which invariably has an impact
on any organization's performance and profitability as a worldwide (JerutoKeitany & Richu,
2014). The performance an organization can be measured through various factors and the
most common performance indicators for every type of business organizations are
productivity, profitability, quality of product (service) and growth and customer satisfaction
(Abdela et al., 2023).
Materials management has been widely recognized as a vital tool for boosting the
performance of organizations since it curtails costs and makes the best use of existing
resources. Companies engaging in efficient material management are most probable to
perform better than those that do not and realize significant savings in total costs of
production , hence, effective materials management can result to cost reduction, savings and
overall productivity (Davis, 1993).
The researchers and scholars have identified materials management as an alternative
paradigm to the performance of manufacturing organization (Oyebamiji, 2018). Material
management practices are critical to an organizational performance in today’s competitive and
dynamic market (Dimitrios, 2008).
Flour factories play a great role in food manufacturing (Arendt & Zannini, 2013; Ahmed
et al., 2022). Products that have produced in flour factories like: breads, cakes and others are
commonly used by mostof the people of Ethiopia. Especially bread has consumed regularly
by almost all of urban area residuals and sometimes by rural area residuals (Newman &
Newman, 2006).
As per the researcher’s knowledge, there is no research which has conducted on the effect
of materials management practice (maintenance, store management, inventory management
and Expediting) on the performance of Werabe town flour factories. On the other hand, as the
researcher’s preliminary survey (Jan, 25, 2023), Werabe town flour factory’s owners and
managers are said as they are experiencing a kind of challenges related to effective
management of their materials. In addition to this the researcher observes broken, damaged or
defective equipment’s that are not maintained properly which have thrown in unfavourable
place.
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As a result of this some of the materials are looks like they can’t be
returned into functionality. Therefore, in order to fill the listed research gaps and to add
empirical evidence that can draw answers and recommendation to problems related to
material management and the flour factories performance, conducting a research on this topic
is important. To achieve these, the study has tried to determine the effect of material
management practices on organizational performance of Werabe flour factories.
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2.3.4. Expediting
Expediting is a common and possibly necessary part of the day-to-day activities of
manufacturing firms (Miller & Fink, 1990; Seman et al., 2022).
Expediting is an extremely important materials management function that does not always
receive its proper emphasis. The purpose of expediting is to provide timely information
regarding anticipated materials deliveries to all concerned project personnel. Experienced
expeditors residing in vendor or subcontractor shops can give accurate projections of vendor
delivery dates, workloads, and labor climates. Expeditors also work closely with
representatives individuals who may perform material inspections in the vendor shops. To
maximize expediting efficiency, the expeditors should receive information pertaining to
projected or actual material shortages in some order of priority. This priority can be conveyed
from scheduling reports, from an open purchase order report, or from a trial allocationreport.
(A trial allocation report arranges drawings in some priority order and then allocates the
materialson hand to the drawings with the highest priority. Materials not yet received are then
assigned a priority in the order in which they was needed.) The expeditor’s estimate of
materials delivery dates must then be communicated back to materials management
personnel. This communication is accomplished by issuing an expediting report or inserting
projected delivery dates and comments into thepurchase order file (Bell & Stukhart, 1986;
Seman et al., 2023).
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2.6. Conceptual
Framework
A conceptual framework is a structure of concepts or theories which are built as a map for the
study andit shows the relationship of research variables. The conceptual framework is used to
provide an explanation for the relationship between the equitable variables and the organized
variable. It shows thediagrammatical relationship between the different variables in the study.
The independent variable wasdetected as materials management and the dependent variable
was organizational performance. The maintenance, inventory and storage management and
the expediting are aspects of the independent variable which are functions of materials
management while organizational performance is the dependent variable which concerns
growth and customer satisfaction, quality products/services, increased profit and
organizational productivity.
Figure 2.1: Conceptual Framework
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Correlations
Maintenance Expediting Storage Inventory Performance
Maintenance Pearson 1 .723** .420** .474** .761**
Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .000 .000 .000
N 217 217 217 217 217
Expediting Pearson .723** 1 .597** .633** .789**
Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .000 .000 .000
N 217 217 217 217 217
Storage Pearson .420** .597** 1 .777** .658**
Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .000 .000 .000
N 217 217 217 217 217
Inventory Pearson .474** .633** .777** 1 .690**
Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .000 .000 .000
N 217 217 217 217 217
Performance Pearson .761** .789** .658** .690** 1
Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .000 .000 .000
N 217 217 217 217 217
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Model Summaryb
Adjusted R Std. Error of Durbin-
Model R R Square Square the Estimate Watson
1 .876a .768 .764 .100 1.992
a. Predictors: (Constant), Inventory, Maintenance, Storage, Expediting
b. Dependent Variable: Performance
Coefficientsa
Unstandardized Standardized
Coefficients Coefficients
Model B Std. Error Beta t Sig.
1 (Constant) .097 .089 1.096 .274
Maintenance .351 .042 .398 8.301 .000
Expediting .224 .045 .274 4.930 .000
Storage .173 .051 .183 3.406 .001
Inventory .253 .076 .185 3.309 .001
a. Dependent Variable: Performance
Source: researcher’s Survey Result 2023
The result in the table 4.4 above presents the effect that materials management practices
have on the performance of Werabe flour factories in association with the level of regression
coefficients of the explanatory variables. According to the result, Maintenance management
has high effect on the Werabe flour factories performance, with beta value of 0.351,
expediting has an effect on the Werabe flour factories performance with beta value of 0.224,
storage management has an effect on the performance of Werabe flour factories with beta
value of
0.173 and inventory management has an effect on the performance of Werabe flour factories
with beta value of 0.253.
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The computed result in the table in Unstandardized Coefficients demonstrated that, all the
four independent variables maintenance management, inventory management, storage
management and expediting have a positive and significant effect on the organizational
performance of Werabe flour factories. And as it is indicated through standardized beta
Coefficients all are positive numbers and shows that the effect of each independent variable
toward the dependent variable is positive.
Therefore:
Flour factories performance = .097+.351 (Maintenance) + .224 (Expediting) + .173 (storage) +
.253 (inventory) + Ԑ0
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