COMPUTERIZED PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM A CASE STUDY OF CADBURY NIGERIA PLC IKEJA - LAGOS

Abstract

ABSTRACT Most 111(1IHlfacturing 'industries (Ire alw(lYs fnccd with the problem of productioll due to lack of readY-lllade sales outlets for their products. As a result of this, these industries use agents as distributors for the sale of their products to the wholesalers before the goods get to the ultimate consumers. Cadbury Nigeria PLC is one of the industries that use distributors as the first channel in the chain of distribution. In this case, a potential distributor is expected to register and deposit some amount with the orgallisation. Ilowever, the maJor problem faced by the D rg<lllisation IS lack of monitoring and control of the agents (distriblitor~). The basis of this problem is the manual method of record keeping of ::Ictivities between the distributors and the organisation. There is improper record keeping technique. This problem therefore, necessitated the design of a computerised product distribution process for Cadbury Nigeria PLC which is intended to be achieved using a database management package.