Kampala International University Business School The Effect Of Inventory Management On Organizational Profitability A Case Study Of Sugar Corporation Of Uganda Limited (Scoul)

ABSTRACT

The research topic was the effect of inventory management and organizational profitability. The

objectives of the study were to establish the inventory management techniques used in SCOUL

and to find out the other factors that affect the organizational profitability; and the relationship

between inventory management techniques and organizational profitability.

A cross sectional research design was used by the researcher; this was due to the time constraint.

More so questionnaires were also used to collect primary data at SCOUL and secondary data

from various sources like text books, journals, and internet that the researcher used to gather

relevant information to write this research report.

Frequency tables were used in the interpretation of the data. The findings were presented in both

qualitative and quantitative forms.

It was further discovered in the findings that the inventory management has an effect on the

organizational profitability. It was noted that there, more other factors that affect [profitability

like liquidity, taxation, management skills, and many others.

Recommendations were made where there was need for organizations to develop technological

techniques in its information inflows to facilitate just in time techniques and also to address more

factors that affect profitability other than inventory management like taxation and competition.