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Important of warehouse in supply chain
Ismawati binti Syafii
Associate Professor Dr. Noorul Shaiful Fitri bin Abdul Rahman
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
Warehousing is one of important component in supply chain and logistics acrivity.In
2014,there were of contributed about 42.0% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Malaysia.The effective warehouse management is essential that help to operate the
facility and space efficiently, maintain the cost control and meet customer
satisfaction.However,failure factors have been detected in various warhouse operation
aspects that lead to the ineffective of warehouse productivity,less profit, as well as
high operational cost.This study intend to identify and rank the main failure factors of
warehouse operation and also analyze the risks that affecting the warehouse
operation. A combination of fuzzy analytic hierarchy proses (FAHP) and risk matrix
method will be applied in this study.As a finding,the 10 failure factors are rank
accordingly and risks have been determined.The contribution of this study enable to
asist warehouse operator to replant or restructure the warehouse operations in order
to avoid or reduce the failure in future.
1657 | UMT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY