Study on Supply Chain Management Practices

ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES

STUDY ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT PRACTICESA CASE STUDY OF KALITY FOOD SHARE COMPANY

BY

Assefa Balda

Submitted to the school of graduate studies, College of Management,

Informatics and Economic Science, Department of Management in

partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master’s of

Business Administration (MBA)

ADVISOR: D.r Tufail Ahmad

June 2011

ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY

School of Graduate Studies

STUDY ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT PRACTICES-A

CASE STUDY OF KALITY FOOD SHARE COMPANY

By

Assefa Balda

College of Management, Informatics, and Economic

Science

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DECLARATION

I, the undersigned, declare that, this study “The study on supply chain management practicesa case study of Kality Food Share Company” is my original work and has not been presented

for a degree in any other university, and that all sources of materials used for the study have been

duly acknowledged.

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Acknowledgement

I am very grateful to my advisor D.r Tufail Ahmad for guiding my project. Especially I

would like to thank him for the advice he gave me and the excellent and invaluable

support he provided during the course of preparing this case study.

It also gives me pleasure to extend my gratitude to Kality Food Share Company’s

employees; working in the sales and marketing department, procurement and supply

department, Production and administrative section and in addition to this, customers’ of

the company for the support they...