Identification of Factors Affecting Warehouse Efficiency in Apparel industry

Abstract

Warehouse activities are now becoming the midpoint of important to ensure the effective storing, handling, receiving the goods efficiently in the manufacturing firms. Therefore, this study has been conducted to identify the factors affecting to warehouse efficiency in apparel industry. The scope of this thesis is limited to the apparel firms in western province. A quantitative research approach based on questionnaire survey conducted for this thesis. Factor analysis was conducted to identify the factors affecting to the warehouse efficiency in apparel industry. Therefore, primary data was collected from 200 respondents using structured questionnaire. In this research there are 25 independent components have been identified through past literature review and by use of the SPSS version 17 data had been analyzed. Afterward it is found that there are six factors which affecting to the warehouse efficiency namely, quality, warehouse planning, productivity, and inventory control, cost and labor satisfaction.