The study of lead time for shipments of goods to Sabah and Sarawak from the stage of indent to the stage of departure of containers from the warehouse of Colgate-Palmolive Malaysia / Asfazura Mohd. Dhany

The main aim of this study is to establish the lead time or the time taken for shipments of goods to East Malaysia from the point of indent to the departure of containers from Colgate-Palmolive warehouse. The study consist of five stages, ie Stage 1 : Receival of indent, Stage 2 : Allocation of products to containers, Stage 3 : Arrival of containers, Stage 4 : Stock Availability and Stage 5 : Departure of containers from ColgatePalmolive warehouse. The observation)are done on the total number of 40 containers where the first 20 containers are observed with priority to their loading time and the remaining 20 containers observed interms of the total time spent at the Colgate-Palmolive warehouse. The study ïs confined to products with destinations to Sabah (Kota Kinabalu, Tawau, Sandakan and Labuan) and Sarawak (Kuching, Sibu and Miri). The process and information^ of every stage as mentioned above are available in Chapter 3. The findings in Chapter 3 outlined the problems of product allocation into containers and calculation of Stuffing List, the supply of manpower (the shipping manager) and his list of duties, the availability of stocks, the reliability and availability of containers and prime mover hauliers, the loading and retrieval of stocks, positioning of products in the warehouse, forklift trucks and drivers and finally the summary of the whole findings which the result of the total time spent for shipments to East Malaysia is included. Chapter 4 comprises of suitable recommendations and suggestions relating to the findings in Chapter 3. The utilization of Automated Date Collection may help in simplifying the allocation of products into containers. Calculation of Stuffing List should be done as neat as possible while the result of the manpower study revealed the obvious need of an assistant to the present shipping manager for East Malaysia.