Inventory Management Practices and Service Delivery of Health Humanitarian Organizations in Kenya

Abstract

Inventory management is a prerequisite for globally competitive organizations. The study aimed at investigating the inventory management practices and service delivery of health humanitarian organizations in Kenya. The study sought to answer the following specific objective: to establish the inventory management practices commonly used by health humanitarian organizations in Kenya; and to determine the relationship between inventory management practices and service delivery of health humanitarian organizations in Kenya. The study targeted 30 respondents of humanitarian organizations, out of which 21 questionnaires were returned filled, representing 70% response rate. The study used primary data. Quantitative data collected was analyzed by the use of descriptive statistics using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 22.0) and presented through percentages, means, and standard deviations. The study concluded that the inventory management affects the service delivery of health humanitarian organizations. There were certain limitations such as resource constraint which prohibited collecting information from the respondents and time constraint was also a challenge. Although the study was on the effects of inventory management on the service health humanitarian organizations, it is recommended that the similar studies should be done in other sectors of the Kenya economy for comparison purposes and to allow for generalization of findings on the inventory management in Kenya