Assessment Of Fleet Management Practices In Bottled Water Companies And Its Implication For Operational Performance Case Of Aqua Addis Bottled Water Company - Asku Plc

Fleet management concerns with the management of a company’s vehicles whichrnincludes the purchase, maintenance, inventory, disposal and work scheduling withrnthe main objective of to achieve efficiency and productivity for the organization. Thernmain purpose of this study was to assess the effect of fleet management practicesrnon operational performance of Asku Plc, the ‘aqua addis’ bottled Water Company.rnThis study attempts to see the impact of maintenance and repair, vehicles fuelrnmanagement, vehicles tracking system and driver management and training on thernoperational performance of the company. The study has incorporated both primaryrnand secondary source of data. The primary data was collected using questionnaire.rnSecondary data was collected from journal articles, internet website, annual reportrnand magazines. Out of 117 total populations and 67 samples size 54 validrnresponses were collected. Descriptive data analysis method through the use ofrnStatistical packages for social science (SPSS) version 20.0 software was used tornanalyze the data. Inferential statistics such as ordered logit model were employedrnin order to answers the basic questions. The study incorporates four independentrnvariables in which all of them were measured on a 5-point Likert-Scale. Apparently,rnmean was used as a measure of central tendency. The results indicate that,rnoperational performance of Asku Plc is strong by improving the fleet managementrnpractices. The study also found that all variables except drivers’ management andrntraining have significant effect on operational performance of the businessrncompany. Fuel management and vehicle tracking system has positive impact onrnoperational performance whereas vehicles maintenance and repair has a negativernimpact. Finally, the results on the conclusion entails us that the four researchrnquestions developed in this study were considerably rated all above average meanrnby the employees which actually indicates the organization fleet managementrnpractices are in a good manner. And also, the study recommends properrnmaintenance and repair, fuel management, vehicle tracking and driversrnmanagement practices in order to bring effective operational performance

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