Supply Chain Transportation Management in Kenya

Running head: SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT IN KENYA
Supply Chain Transportation Management in Kenya
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Table of Contents
1) Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2) Literature review................................................................................................................3
3) Methodology......................................................................................................................6
4) Foreseen Limitations..........................................................................................................7
5) Research Schedule/Timeline..............................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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1) Introduction
Transportation strategy is one of the most important and primary is logistic function
within a supply chain. This procedure runs from the suppliers to the customers and stores
(Kariuki and Rotich 2019). The transportation strategy mostly involves the movement of
products or a service along with the cost of transportation through 5 particular issues of
effective supply chain. The probability of led to issues of movement and integration of
information along the supply chain, careers and customers are mostly found throughout the
transportation procedure. This is why there lies and importance of developing a transportation
strategy so that the supply chain management can be effectively carrying out the procedure of
reaching the customers or stores through the suppliers (Githinji and Were 2018). It
incorporates a good supply chain and it is a way for responding to the Dynamics of business,
the needs of the suppliers, customers and also the business operation. It is for this research
that a developing country like Kenya and their ability of developing a strategy for
organisations to make sure that a transportation strategy is implemented would be discussed
in details. The present research approach over the understanding of transportation
management in supply chain is going to be conducted as there has not been much strategies
and software developed in Kenya for adopting and gaining a competitive advantage for
satisfying the customer and consumer needs, the operational needs of the organisation and
even for the needs of the career.
Understanding the phases of transportation strategy implementation depends on the
different factors of issue identification during the procedure (Jirma and Guyo 2017). Kenya is
a country which is developing and it is not found that the transportation phase in supply chain
has been provided with strategy or automated. There are some disparate objectives and aims
of the research that would be described as follows. With this understanding it would be easier

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to understand the effectivity and issues that Kenya and its organisation faces for managing
the transportation process in supply chain. The policies and procedure that the Kenyan
organizations followed would be assessed and described to achieve the major purpose of the
research process.
Research Questions: The research questions developed for this particular topic
would be listed as below:
 How would the supply chain of Kenyan organizations be impacted by the
implementation of a transportation management system?
Research aims: The aim of this research is to understand and investigate the
transportation management in supply chain procedure in Kenyan organizations.
Research objectives: The objectives of the research are to be developed with the help
of the aims that are trying to be achieved with this research. This can be listed as follows:
 To find out the strategies that Kenyan organizations are using for
transportation management in supply chain.
 To find out the issues in the organisations during the performance off the
transportation activities in supply chain.
 To find out the association of the transportation management in supply chain
with it impact on the productivity of the organisation.
2) Literature review
The literature review would be conducted to find out the research that have been
conducted by different authors and researchers with their Academic journals presented. All
the journals would be listed as per their fulfilment and alignment to the research topic on the
basis of which they would be analysed and review to find out the information that would
sufficiently fulfil the objectives of the research paper. According to the papers found,